“Your workplace will be in the stadium.” 

That was all Gavin wanted to hear. He had grown up playing, loving and, as he put it, worshipping football. Now he would be making his living off it.

Gavin is a sports-data scoutA freelancer who goes to the ground to collect and annotate data for live sports matches. in Guwahati, Assam, and his job sounds like a hobby: go watch a live match and log whatever happens on the pitch. That’s about it. 

He got the gig after applying on Linkedin just over a year ago. He........

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