10,000+ New Football Agents for Next FIFA Exam – An Agent Threatens to Sue One of Spain’s Giant Clubs – ‘Keeping Your Word’ in a Transfer Window.
With the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand reaching its crescendo, ‘The Agent’s Angle’ casts a football agent focussed eye in the direction of the women’s game, the platform that the World Cup has given to the profile of the game and how the football agent world relates and affects that sphere of football.
Joining ‘The Agent’s Angle’ as a special guest for this episode is former professional footballer Maria Karlsson de Cecco who is now one of the leading football agents in the women’s game, as well as a member of FIFA’s new Agent Working Group ((F)AWG). Maria answers questions about her life as an agent, how the football agent industry has changed from her time as a player to her role now as an agent, and how she thinks women’s football and the agent’s world as a whole will continue to evolve; as well as some of the challenges it may still have to overcome.
In addition to this we will be looking at the emergence of more female football agents in prominent roles within the football industry, as well as the impact football agents are having on the women’s game during the rapid stage of growth, development, and evolution.
We also pose the question as to when we will see the first £1 million female footballer, as transfer records continue to be broken, as well as other aspects of the transfer window.
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Show Running Order :
(01:02) – Increased interest in the FIFA Women’s World Cup from Agents and Scouts
(02:07) – Keeping an Eye on the Transfer Window
(05:15) – The Emergence of Female Agents in Both the Men’s and Women’s Game
(07:42) – Guest Interview : Former Player and Leading Agent in the Women’s Game – Maria Karlsson de Cecco
(11:08) – Experience of Football Agents as a Player
(12:17) – Evolution of Football Agency in the Women’s Game
(15:16) – Becoming a Football Agent and Why
(17:00) – Have Attitudes Changing Towards Being a Female Football Agent?
(19:37) – The Advantage of Learning from the Mistakes of the Men’s Game
(21:12) – Growing Competition Amongst Football Agents in the Women’s Game
(23:34) – The Football Agents Industry in One Word
(24:48) – Agent Regulations and the FIFA Agent Working Group ((F)AWG)
(21:12) – Growing Competition Amongst Football Agents in the Women’s Game
(23:34) – The Football Agents Industry in One Word
(31:41) – The Growth of the Women’s Game, is it a Surprise?
(32:55) – One Wish for the Future of the Football Agent’s Industry
(34:52) – Impacts on the Women’s Game in the Agent Industry
(36:39) – The ‘Carney Report‘ & The Women’s Game
(37:42) – ‘Lip-Service‘ to the Women’s Game & the Agent Industry?
(39:32) – Transfers in the Womens Game and the First Million Pound Player
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- CMG : Global Womens Football Agency
- UK Government – Major review of women’s football published – ‘Carney Report’
- Karen Carney review demands overhaul of women’s football to transform future
- Women’s transfer window summer 2023 – all deals from Europe’s top five leagues
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Season 1 : Episode 7
At a time when football agents operate in a more competitive industry than ever and allegedly find themselves ‘under attack’ from various quarters with regulation and legislation, ‘The Agents Angle’ asks the question of why more than 10,000 applicants have registered for the second sitting of the new FIFA ‘Football Agent’s Exam’, in addition to 1000’s who passed the first exam and many more established agents who qualify under the ‘legacy pathway’?
Could more agents be looking to use the role of a licensed agent as a ‘stepping stone’ to the role of a sporting director within a club rather than the competitive, combative, and often ‘cut-throat‘ world of being a football agent?
What are the ramifications for these licensed agents both new and old under the new FFAR (FIFA Football Agents Regulations) or more importantly what happens if the FFAR fails to be implemented consistently around the footballing world?
In this episode ‘The Agents Angle’ also looks into reports of an agent threatening to sue a super club (in the shape of Barcelona) and where such disputes between agents and clubs may be heard ….. and the effects on the associated player in such disputes.
Also at a time when a lot of people are losing faith in large parts of the not-so’beautiful game’, we look at a case where a player and agent have kept their word to a club in the transfer window when many others would be unlikely to show similar honour and morals.
And with all this in mind, ‘The Agents Angle‘ asks the question as to “what value agents bring to football”, and looks into some research that asks the ‘age-old’ question of : “Do footballers (players) really need agents?”
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Show Running Order :
(01:06) – The prospect of 10,000+ new football agents with the 2nd FIFA Football Agents Exam
(07:32) – Professional Pathways from Agent to Sporting Director
(08:37) – The Ramifications of Challenges to FFAR for New Agent Exam Applicants
(12:32) – Football Agent Threatens to Sue ‘Mega-Club‘ (Barcelona)
(18:26) – Legal & Regulatory Aspects for an Agent in Dispute with a Club
(24:06) – ‘Keeping Your Word‘ in a Football Transfer Window
(29:14) – Research into the Value of Agents – Do Players Need Football Agents?
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- Do football players really need agents or can they do without?
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