Today’s football world and the transfer market is more dynamic and fast-paced then ever before. It is hard for football fans to keep up. It is even more difficult for football players to earn their living in their profession. Despite football being more global in the 21st century than what it has ever been, a number of footballers find it increasingly difficult to find football clubs interested in utilising their services.
As this article from football’s governing body, FIFA, outlines– 70% of transfer in the calendar year of 2011 involved out-of-contract players. More than half of these out-of-contract players were footballers whose contracts had expired. 30% of them had their contracts terminated earlier than its expiration date and 15% were registered as amateur footballers. Amateur footballers may even be players who fail to appoint football agents or agencies to assist them in finding football clubs. Not just amateur footballers, but professional and semi-professional footballers too need football agents in today’s football scenario to conduct their negotiations and ‘marketing’ themselves. Just like any criminal or victim requires a lawyer in a court case to be represented. Representing yourself does no good.
Fieldoo.com recently launched its Agent and Scout Platform that combines the complexity of football’s transfer market with another fast paced evolution- the Internet. of It can best be described as professional networking website, like Linkedin, but exclusively for football. It allows players and agents to meet and discuss. Players get to find agents to represent them while Agents themselves can better enter the industry and find clients to represent. This initiative can really change the world of football and the transfer market. It is mutually beneficial to both aspiring players and agents alike.
So when Fieldoo got in touch with us to help them out by providing football readers with some knowledge of their program, we were more than happy to help. Fieldoo can really make a difference in the beautiful game and we would gladly help in any way.
Fieldoo’s Mission, Vision & Values
Fieldoo intends to become a reference in the world of sport representation and promotion.
Our mission is to offer an outstanding specialised service to players, coaches, agents, clubs, and other institutions, stressing the importance of quality and basing our core values on:
Professionalism, transparency and innovation.
The initiative already had its first success story with former Scottish Premier League youngster, Matej Rapnik (who was at Hearts until 2009) successfully moved to Thai Premier League side Muangthong United with the help of Serbian agent Saša Cuk who found the Slovenian defender through Fieldoo’s network.
Fieldoo.com is offering new technologies to allow for networking, hiring, signing and other agent representative activities to be completed efficiently within the platform.
There are over 4000 users on Fieldoo and that list will keep growing. It is a great initiative that is making the football market a more convenient and effective place. It is still early days but the concept and goal will ensure that it is successful.
Here are the key features of Fieldoo’s Agent and Scout Platform:
- File Storing- Fieldoo.com allows for agents to have an online business hub where the players, contacts and portfolios are all stored in one place.
- Find & contact new players- Fieldoo.com’s simple drop down bar and search tool will allow agents to efficiently find clients to add to their own portfolio or to match players with a club in need of some reinforcement.
- Create your profile- Serving as a personal webpage for anyone to view
- Present your profile- to other agents, scouts, clubs, clients or interested third parties
- Expand your territories- Allows agents to go global. Find players, connect with other agents and create partnerships
- Market- Where agents can reply (and apply) to other agents’ posts, such as searches/offers for players, trial offers and partnerships
- Hire an Agent- A totally new and revolutionary feature that will allow players to motivate agents to find an appropriate club for them, where agents can make additional revenue.
We live and breathe football and this is possible with the hard-work and efforts of the players. It is a difficult environment out there, but Fieldoo is sure to help footballers in realising their dreams, while also providing valuable assistance to agents as well.
Visit Fieldoo’s official website here to know more.