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== History == | == History == | ||
Verusco Technologies grew out of a video and statistical analysis system developed during the 1990s by George Serrallach, a lecturer in the biotechnology department at Massey University in Palmerston North who had previously built a similar analysis system for association football.<ref name="ClubRugby2021">{{Cite web |last=clubrugby |date=2021-11-06 |title=George Serrallach and the Evolution of Rugby Analysis |url=https://clubrugby.nz/wp/2021/11/07/george-serrallach-and-the-evolution-of-rugby-analysis/ |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=ClubRugby.nz |language=en-NZ}}</ref> Serrallach was introduced to rugby union by All Blacks assistant coach Wayne Smith in 1996, after which the analysis system began to be adapted for the sport.<ref name="ClubRugby2021" /> With the assistance of Massey University lecturer David Hadfield, who helped turn the system into a commercial product, the business was incorporated that year as AnalySport Limited; it was renamed Verusco Technologies in 2000, a name said to derive from a word meaning "truth".<ref name="ClubRugby2021" /> | |||
In 2013, the company was acquired by Prozone.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-11-21 |title=Prozone buys All Blacks rugby analysis business {{!}} TheBusinessDesk.com |url=https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/544774-prozone-buys-all-blacks-rugby-analysis-business |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Yorkshire |language=en}}</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||