What would the parents of young footballers have the right to know about the future of their athlete children? From this question an idea is born. A column edited by a Sports Agent (Jean-Christophe Cataliotti) to answer the many questions that parents often ask football clubs, but without receiving clear and exhaustive answers.
It is an extremely current topic regarding youth football. It is talked about everywhere, in institutional offices as well as in bars or on the edges of football fields. And if we talk about youth football, everyone’s attention inevitably falls on the parents of young footballers who are often accused of being too invasive in their relationships with football clubs. They “claim” to know, to know the mechanisms of the youth “transfer market”, to be constantly updated on what the future of their young athletes could be. In case of silence, a mechanism of solidarity arises between parents, a rebound of news on constraints, releases, preparation bonuses (parents do not have to pay companies to release their children!), first contracts, transfers, loans, which , in most cases, is a harbinger of approximate, non-exhaustive, non-technical, non-clarifying information.
Well, if on the one hand parents are sometimes excessively cumbersome in their desire to know, on the other hand it is also true that in some cases their voice risks remaining unjustifiably unanswered.
And here was born the idea of going to the “rescue” of the parents of young footballers through a weekly column with which to be able to provide answers to the many dilemmas that afflict youth football!
Below are some of the many questions that should be answered. What are apprenticeship contracts in football? When is it possible to sign a first professional contract? What happens if a family moves their residence? And if a boy is particularly promising, when and how can he be tested by a big club? How are young footballers transferred abroad? Is it convenient or not to be assisted by an attorney? And also some technical-football questions, such as, for example, what are the evaluation parameters of a young footballer (what to do if a footballer is short and thin?), how are players discovered, who decides on their future?
For advice, questions, explanations write to [email protected] to the attention of JC Cataliotti, Director of the Football School (https://cataliottifootballschool.it/).