I can see a great social aspect in
using Fieldoo.com as an amateur player where you can network with your intermediaries,
clubs and international players. Football is a very social activity in itself.
My children talk about football as much as they play football. They talk with
their friends, me, their mother, their grandparents, their auntie, their uncle
and pretty much anyone else who will listen. We can’t pass a sports shop
without going in and looking at the latest football kits and football boots.
The video games related to football are in-depth with player statistics and
information about clubs from all over the world. Fieldoo is the absolute
extension of this – it’s the schoolyard football conversation gone global for
the internet generation. Once the word is out then Fieldoo.com will be massive.
It only takes 30 seconds to create a
free account and from there the world is your oyster, or it would be if oysters
played football. Encourage your friends to join as well and you can start your
own local football social network and link it to football communities in far
flung corners of the earth (Or closer to home if you wish!). This is your
beginning as the life of a semi-pro footballer. Instead of having someone else
do it for you, YOU decide which trials to attend, which clubs to send your CV
to and which agents to contact.
One amazing function of Fieldoo is the
ability to gain trials at professional football clubs. They currently have a
fabulous opportunity to go on a
trial with Almeria, a Spanish second division
team. You can get the chance to train for 7 days with their top players.
Almeria has a track record of nurturing young talent and they have produced
players such as Alvaro Negredo (Valencia), Aleix Vidal (FC Barcelona) and Felipe
Melo (Inter) in the past.
As with any social media platform,
this will become more prevalent for players as they enter their teenage years.
It’s from here that they can compare stats, photographs and their latest match
with other young footballers from all over the world. The buzz and excitement
that a young footballer will gain from this is immeasurable. It’s one thing as
a British school kid to compare yourself against the best in your year, your
school, your district or your league. Try taking that to the next level and
finding players of your age to compare against from Mexico, the United States,
Argentina, Italy, Spain or from World Cup winners Germany. The future
networking ability of this platform are beyond measure – just look at the
amount of hits football skills videos get on YouTube and multiply that by the
fact that you can get to know about the players you are watching, wherever they
are in the world.
The social aspect ramps up from here
and is dependent only on the number of other, more traditional social media
platforms that you are subscribed to. Want to showcase your latest match stats
on Twitter? You can do that. Want to upload your promo video to Facebook? Yep,
that’s possible too. How about Google+? Of course, that’s another link.
In my experience, it’s every young
footballers dream to make it in the game. Reading about the humble beginnings
of Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo only inspires more. By having a presence
on the top football social networking site, the chances of this happening can
only increase. I can see a future for fieldoo as the managers of local teams
look to the stats of opposition players for team preparation, tactics and
recruitment purposes.
With Jamie Vardy making the leap from Semi-pro
footballer in the non-league to the England team in a relatively short
period of time, there’s a massive spotlight on the quality of players in the
lower leagues. The big clubs are sending their scouting network out over the
parts of the game that they ignored only a few years ago. The semi-pro leagues
in England are awash with talent. There are players there who were let go from
major clubs at academy or under-21 level, players that are on the way back from
a career-threatening injury and players that will still make it into the professional
game.
Semi-professional football is tough.
Most players juggle a full-time job with fitness, training and matches,
sometimes travelling long distances to play. The love of the game is a major
factor in playing at this level but many will harbor dreams of making it. The
ultimate dream is to “do a Vardy” and go from the
non-league to the top league, to swap a rainy Tuesday night in the North East
of England to a balmy autumn evening with the England squad in Alicante, as
Vardy has done recently.
To work, train, travel and play at
once is a real handful for anyone. And it’s here where players can often end up
concentrating on these time-consuming aspects of life and forgetting the
networking that can enhance their career. This is where the football networking
site fieldoo.com steps in. Once you’ve created your profile as a footballer you
have a presence. Football academies,
scouts and coaches can check out your position, your top attribute, your career
stats and how you got on in your last match. Networking in this way gets you a
foothold in the world of football. It’s one thing having scouts from the big
clubs starting to take notice of the semi-professional game but it’s another
altogether to enable them to see you and what you can do on a network that puts
them in touch with all aspects of your game.
The next step in the game and the next
step on Fieldoo is to find someone who can enhance your career prospects while
you are getting on with the rest of your life. Football agents are active on Fieldoo
and finding the right agent is key to maintaining your footballing dream.
Fieldoo enables football agents or intermediaries to build a network of
contacts from all over the world to help their players build a career. It
really is like the excellent functionality from your favourite football
management game brought to life and applied to real people- the main real
person that you want it to work for is YOU.
It’s all about taking that next step
from semi-professional to professional football, and Fieldoo doesn’t stop
there. If you’ve made it to the professional ranks then you still need to
network.
Fieldoo has functions for the
Pro
footballer as well. If you have a career arc in the same shape as this
article (from young footballer to semi-professional to professional footballer)
then you may well take Fieldoo with you throughout your career. But even if you
start with fieldoo as a professional footballer there are great functions on
the website for you. Many people see professional football as the top few
Premier League clubs and the riches of David Beckham, Wayne Rooney or Frank
Lampard but the professional game in England stretches to League 2 and
sometimes to what is currently known as the Vanarama National League. Not every
player has a Roman Abramovic or the riches of Abu Dhabi to pay their wages, and
the game is vibrant in the lower leagues. Clubs search for value for money as
they attempt to balance their own books and keep an eye on financial fair play
rules. And this is where a quality networking site will come into its own. I’ve
read media stories of football clubs and their scouts using the Football
Manager computer game statistics to start to look at potential transfer
targets. Why use a computer game when
you can have access to the real thing? As a professional footballer, your
career is relatively short and you need to make the most of every season and
especially every move. The game is global, and opportunities are not just on
your doorstep. When I was growing up, players used to play for their local club
but now the opportunities to play for a top team in leagues all over the world
are there, if only you could find them. Fieldoo enables you to find an agent, a
trial, a coach or a club all in one place. Once you have a profile as a player
and it’s updated with all the best parts of your game, the networking can
commence. You can find an agent on the site and their contacts can open up
opportunities for you in the game. The contacts on Fieldoo are verified by the
site so you can contact with the confidence that you are dealing with the right
people. The value of verified contacts is often in the news as players are
asked for money to secure a trial with a club and then find that they have been
conned out of their savings.
As a footballer of any level, Fieldoo
can enhance your career. From the schoolyard to your local team, from
semi-professional top professional footballer, there are large parts of the
website that makes football more fun, more social and gives you more chance of
making it.
Check out the
main website
And the
Almeria trial
