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Soccer is a complex system. Therefore, appropriate (nontrivial) models have to be applied to be able to analyze the behavior of the teams on the pitch. This study analyzed the World Cup Final 2006 between France and Italy by means of relative phase. Mean longitudinal and lateral positions of all 20 outfield players were used to calculate relative phase by Hilbert transformation. Whole team-, group-,...