In today’s competitive football world, clubs often struggle to balance financial sustainability with success on the pitch. For clubs outside the top-tier elite, relying solely on revenue from commercial deals and broadcasting rights isn’t enough. Southampton FC, under the technical…
Fearlessly accepting the challenge, he embraced the role of a sporting director with a vision to shape the club's destiny. The wheels were set in motion, and thus commenced Luis Roggiero's incredible journey with Independiente del Valle.
Bundesliga's record champions, are coming off a strange season. While they did claim their 11th consecutive league title, they did so in an unusual fashion—by the skin of their teeth.
In this episode of FOCUS Talks, Ahmet Schaefer shared the most delicate parts of the achievements that they reached with Clermont Foot 63 and Austria Lustenau.
Jose explained about the transformation of scouting, how it became popular and important after the 2000s, and the impact of data on scouting and club experiences. Jose Chieira is one of Europe’s best-known scouts. He has been working as a scout since 1994. He actively lived all the times when football and scouting evolved. In parallel with his 20 years of club experience, of which only 12 years were spent in Porto and Sporting, he simultaneously spent 24 years as the lead researcher of Football Manager in Portugal.
In recruitment, we may find a player may be terrific in one team, but he could join a team and no longer be successful. To ignore potential factors such as climate adjustment or even missing teammates, we can also consider the fact that the player just simply does not fit the new team system.
AZ is on a long-term mission of carrying the team to a championship winner level by 2025. Marjin Beuker who served as the Director of Development and Coordinator of Talent Management of the team for around fourteen years defines their approach to the game saying, “We don’t buy success, we create it. We believe in making the difference through vision, programs, facts, knowledge, and capable staff.” Making this difference is a long-term endeavor that AZ has undertaken for quite a long time now.
The globalized world shrinks distances and renders intercontinental travel and interactions easier than ever. Such ease comes with its great advantages alongside major responsibilities. It certainly has its implications on the world of sportive competition, especially football.
Bordeaux was not doing well. They could neither find nor stick by the right coach and were sunk in panic buying or inaccurate profiles at the transfer market. The world didn’t help them either. The coronavirus pandemic hit French football hard and the broadcast deal for Ligue 1 collapsed, leading to a major decline in club revenues. Bordeaux barely avoided relegation in 2020-21 and owners were no longer interested in the project.
Over the summer of 2021, we saw Hertha Berlin take more aggressive actions in their hunt to no longer be just the “big spending club” but rather a performing club. The incredibly efficient and successful Fredi Bobic was successfully lured from Eintracht Frankfurt
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