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If you’re unconvinced, spend some time talking with Rasmus Ankersen, the club’s 32-year-old chairman. After two minutes, he’ll draw you in with his great plans for the club and his great trouble hiding his enthusiasm. After five minutes, he’ll share more interesting ideas than most football executives can muster in a lifetime. And after fifteen minutes, it’s clear that FC Midtjylland is no longer just a football club. It’s a laboratory for a radical experiment.
The experiment — as outlined by Ankersen in a breathless 80-minute interview — is to test the thesis that you can successfully run a football club based on statistical analysis of the game; that you can stamp out irrational, subjective, and emotional decision-making and replace it with the scientific method; and that, in so doing, you can give a small club a competitive edge over its bigger, richer opponents.