I have chosen to write about a topic that is of interest to me personally, and in the hope that you, our reader, will give your opinion on the matter too. There is a principle in soccer that the referee, in his/her role as both umpire and representative of a country’s football association, is the […]
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Greetings from London, England. I am not going to go into great detail about myself as that information is available in the ‘About’ section. I would, however, like to thank Darren once again for welcoming me to the team. In my first article I have decided to give my opinion on a topic that has […]
Claude Makélélé plays professional soccer for Chelsea in the English Premiership and for the French International team whenever they play a game. He has three sons. One with current wife, French supermodel Noémie Lenoir. The other two with women while unmarried. Maybe that explains the situation that Makélélé currently finds himself in. Even though Makélélé […]
As of this week, I will be writing a new weekly column. I often see many stories which have an impact on the industry but are never strong enough to warrant an in depth article. So every week I will be writing “The Wash Up”, which will include a brief critique about several stories that […]
I’m hoping that at least half of the sports fans and future sports business players and sports agents out there are aware that the FIFA Women’s World Cup has been going on for the past couple of weeks now. If you watch Sportscenter in the morning I suppose you’ve got no choice but to be […]
Now if there’s one Major League Soccer player that it is fair to say that a large percentage of even Americans have heard of, aside from Mr. Beckham of course, it’s got to be Freddy Adu. Many people use betting platforms like Footstock (Check out this Footstock review for more details) just to bet on […]
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Manchester United Is Making It Rhain
Over on the SportsAgentBlog.com Forum, there is currently a very informative thread concerning clauses in soccer contracts. I am not quite sure that a 9-year-old would understand much of the literature, however. But why do I care about children looking at this blog anyway? Shouldn’t they be busy eating glue or sticking beans in their […]
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Beckham paying off
There has been a lot of talk on Beckham over the site since his massive move to LA Galaxy. Talk has surrounded Beckham making a huge impact on the sport of soccer and lifting its profile through the US, but this may come sooner than expected. [Beckham sells for Galaxy] The club’s owner, Tim Leiweke […]
On January 12th, Chris Lesley was talking about the “milestone in sports,” which was David Beckham’s supposed contract that he was going to be signing with the L.A. Galaxy [Earn it like Beckham]. Hell, every sports news service was going crazy about the $250 million that Beckham was going to earn over 5 seasons. Sorry […]
Mel Stein’s book How to Succeed as a Sports Agent (2002) takes a different approach to the Sports Agent job. Mel has managed some high profile UK footballers in his time such as Alan Shearer, and his book reads in chronogolical form from setting up an agency, to playing contracts and endorsements. It is a […]