The only bad news about this is that you’re going to have to watch American soccer in order to participate. Uggg. Like eating a veggie burger!

Adidas have signed a deal with the MLS soccer league in the states to put their pretty awesome Micoach technology onto, well more like between the shoulder blades of, all the players in the league during the upcoming season.

The Micoach elite system is made up of a small data cell which will slide into a pocket on the shirt of all the players in the 19 teams. The cell is connected to some electrodes sewn into the fabric of the shirts which will wirelessly transmit data about the players’ performance to a database which then forwards the info to a waiting iPad. Even your iPad if you’ve got the app.

Using this data, viewers can track the athletes’ heart rate, speed, field position power and even intensity of play in real time. Although this sounds tediously boring to some, believe it or not, others get off on this sort of thing.

The point for the team: enhance player performance, watch out for overtraining and caution against injury.
The point for you: think about how many nerd points you’ll get.

To get involved, visit here

Now here are some pictures of two men holding soccer shirt and then some other stuff