Soccer-Football Tips – Getting Noticed in the Big World of Football

By Fabian De Marco
for SoccerMyLife.com

Published: April 17, 2010

There must be over 100 Million aspiring professional footballer’s throughout the world today, each with their very own dream of reaching the top. Add this to the millions of agents, coaches and scouts and you begin to see the challenge they each face.

In saying this, how on earth does one get noticed?

The honest truth is that in today’s era of football one must get a little creative in order to find opportunities that take them to the next level.

Let us take a footballer for example. How does one get noticed in order to attract the attention of an overseas club, or a coach, a scout or even an agent for that matter?

For many footballers this can be a long winded task. From creating a Playing CV. To then creating an actual highlights DVD of yourself. And then of course trusting that once you do finally manage to locate an agent, that they are willing and able to invest the time and energy required to distribute your highlight DVD and CV to the many overseas clubs in the hope of providing an opportunity for you to trial and get noticed.

Unfortunately, the majority of player agents and clubs for that matter would choose to focus on the already established professional players on their books who are already playing at major clubs around the world and see them as being able to make them money immediately vs in 5 or 10 years or possibly never at all.

Or you may choose to distribute your playing CV and highlight DVD to individual coaches, clubs and scouts yourself. But then you must find the addresses of every single club you want to send it to and forward several copies overseas which can turn out to be quite an expensive exercise. Further still, you must now hope that when your package does arrive on the front door of a club, that it is viewed by the correct people or person, and secondly, as you are only a name on a piece of paper to the representative of this club at this stage, that your documents don’t collect dust in the top draw of someone’s desk without ever being looked at. That’s if it isn’t already collecting dust at the bottom of the office waste bin in the corner of the room.

There is also the other way of signing up with an actual Agent, which is probably the way most players go, however, it can sometimes be difficult to find a good agent, particularly in countries where football is not the number one sport. And even then, you are limited to that particular agents list of contacts, which may not be extensive and/or suitable to your requirements.

So what else can you do?

You need to get creative – What a lot of footballers are now doing is joining social networking sites and creating groups that other young footballers can join. By doing this, you immediately create an opportunity to network and promote yourself as a footballer. You also expand your contacts with like-minded footballers around the world who may also present to you potential trial opportunities in their respective country. Some sites these days even allow you to create your own profile and upload your own video clips.

The greatest part about sites like these is that they are frequently visited by Scouts, Agents and Clubs and can be a fantastic way to get yourself noticed and perhaps even earn yourself a trial with an overseas club. Remember, in a world as large as football you must first be seen in order to be realized.

Get creative and get yourself noticed.

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Author: Fabian De Marco
Article Source: EzineArticles.com

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