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A WINNING LINEUP

High professional training in the world of sports management. This is the goal of Sport Business Academy, the training institution that, using professionals with 20 years of experience in the field, organizes carefully selected courses that are a valid and effective tool for quickly entering the world of work.
SBA pathways are born from the identification of the most in-demand professional figures, following a careful market analysis, and are structured in such a way as to provide learners with practical and immediately expendable skills that are always up-to-date and meet the high standards required by the industry.

QUALITIES, AN INNATE APTITUDE

Sport Business Academy offers its services with an approach always aimed at continuous improvement of its performance. A quality that is also guaranteed and certified by the ISO 9001 TUV Italy Quality Management System.

ONE ACADEMY, MANY VENUES

Milan, Rome, Bologna, Monza, Bari. We have a widespread presence throughout the country and can boast a dense network of collaborations with partners throughout Italy and Europe. One academy, many locations.

THE LECTURERS, HIGH-LEVEL PROFESSIONALS

Sport Business Academy employs the best professionals and trainers. who have a prestigious career in the relevant industry and significant experience, able to ensure the best professional training.

Online Football Observer Course

THE COURSE.

The football observer is tasked with the following. identify potential samples, with a constant presence on the sports fields, where so many promising young players are pawing the field, but not only that: he also has to understand what element could make a difference in the context of a professional team.

The SBA soccer observer course is aimed at enabling the student to acquire this professionalism composed of several characteristics: observational, public relations and legal techniques, relative to the complex regulations in force at the national and international level. The football observer can collaborate with sports clubs or with players' agents, who very often rely on his valuable referrals to identifying talents.
Real-life case studies and comparisons with FIFA agents ensure that the different case histories the football observer encounters on a daily basis are examined, while also verifying the ways in which they work with Players' Agents and clubs during negotiations.

Target audience

  • Football experts and enthusiasts
  • Aimed at anyone who wants to develop observational skills
    and evaluation of young talent

Certificates

  • Private certificate of attendance
  • Issuance of ASI (International Sports Association) ordinary membership card.
  • Membership in the ASI (International Sports Association) register of observers.

Didactics

50 hours minimum self-study self-study for the provided lecture material and handouts provided during lectures, including the ability to review recorded lectures on the platform and any planned exercises

  • Propaedeutics: sending teaching materials
  • 32 hours of live streaming lectures
  • Pre-stage: assignment of 10 targets to observe, analyze and report to professional soccer observers.
  • Optional: Kama training and platform activation for 3 months and Internship at soccer clubs nationwide (50 hours)

THE ARGUMENTS.

  • Who is the observer
  • How the football observer works
  • The scouting area
  • What does the soccer observer(of soccer players) look for
  • The tools of the observer
  • The formula for sports talent
  • The coordinative and cognitive parameters
  • Conditional parameters
  • The physical parameters
  • The technical parameters
  • The tactical parameters
  • Observation methodology
  • Data collection methodology
  • Data evaluation methodology
  • Methodology of data storage, search and transmission
  • The professional relationship
  • The taboo of the profession:the goalkeeper
  • The attacker cannot be mistaken
  • The game form
  • Analytical sheets of the player's roles
  • The observer:origins,theory and technical-practical advice
  • Technical report on the player
  • Technical report on the goalkeeper
  • Report on the opposing team
  • From intuition to choice
  • Advice for the parent
  • Lived testimonies from the field
  • The analysis of the match
  • The technical observer of individual players and the tactical observer of opposing teams
  • The tactical field
  • The role of position
  • The stages of the game
  • The tactical role
  • Particular roles: the tactical profile of the striker and the goalkeeper
  • The professional relationship on the target player
  • Monitoring
  • FIFA regulations
  • FIGC Standards
  • Types of contractual arrangements with players' agents
  • Players' sports performance contracts
  • Kama Formation

TEACHERS.

Stefano Santona
Stefano Santona works as Football Stakeholders Account & Product Manager for Kama.Sport. He is a soccer professional with a solid academic background, having earned a bachelor's degree in "Sports Science" from the University of Parma and a master's degree in "Science and Techniques of Sports Activities" from the University of ...
Laura Brambilla
Match Analyst and coach class of 1996. After a university career with a degree first in Economics and Business Management and later in Sports Science, she began her soccer career as a scout and match analyst for F.C. Juventus. The desire to get closer to the field and the acquisition of the UEFA B license, led her to become a coll...
Massimo Gardano
He has held positions as a Lega Pro Coach, Serie D Coach, Head of the Canavese methodological area. He has held the role of scouting at the European level and was also a scout for Parma calcio Serie A. For the past 2 years he has held the position of youth sector manager Football Club Pro Vercelli 1892 . In possession of UEFA A license...
Francesco Federico Pagani
In love with soccer and its storytelling, at 23 he became one of the very first bloggers (football and otherwise) in Italy, and then landed at a local TV station, becoming a journalist in his own right. His maniacality and obsession with always wanting to prepare himself as well as possible led him to watch hundreds of matches, until he matured the idea of carving out a r...
Domenico Monaca
Graduated in Sports and Motor Activities Management with specialization in educational support activities for pupils with disabilities in secondary school. He continued his education over the years by successively obtaining a master's degree in Management of Sport Services, another in the Psycho-motor Area...
Domenico Fracchiolla
A graduate in Law, he began his career in pure youth sector companies, first with Pro Inter Bari and later with Wonderful Bari. From 2014 to 2016 he served as Head of Bari's youth sector, then collaborated for the 2016/17 season with Udinese as Academy manager. In the 2017 season-...
Antonio Giordano
Graduated in Law from the University Federico II of Naples in 2005. Fifa agent since 2008, gifted with great football inclination and expertise in Sports Law. Lecturer in Sports Law at some professional training schools in the cities of Taranto and Bari since 2008. Consultant and observer....

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