What you have always wanted is to sign for a good club, preferably abroad, in Europe, right?
Well, It all boils down to a scout or agent finding you, taking interest in you, and decide to take you to a club trials abroad. The question is how can a Scout or an Agent find you? How can a club invite you for trials? How can you effectively pursue your football dreams in 2021?
2021 would not be like other years. There are likely to be a lot of restrictions, travel embargo, social distancing. Authorities may not allow open trials, large crowd of players gathering together in one place. It maybe difficult for most foreign scouts and agents to come over to Nigeria
There may be more of digital trials where you can showcase your performances to a club via live video tools on the internet. We would relying more than ever before, on video clips to showcase our performances to clubs for possible invitation for trials.
If you need to be scouted, go for trials and possibly sign for a club in the next six months or so in 2021, what would you do? What options will you choose to follow?
A. Would you wait and hope that one day a scout or an agent will show up in your training ground to pick you up?
B. Would you urge your academy or boys club to register for any of the popular tournaments in Nigeria or abroad, hoping scouts and agents will show up there and possibly pick you up?
C. Would you register for a scouting tryout, where you can showcase your talent, hoping the scouts will be interested in you?
D. Would you find a list of registered Intermediaries (agents) and try to make personal contact with them, hoping anyone of them will agree to help you find a club?
E. None of the Above
Read this: List of Football Trials and Scouting Programs in Nigeria 2021
Unless you picked E you will end up wasting another year, making unnecessary effort that doesn't really work.
When you get serious of making significant progress in your football career, this is what you should do. It's the opposite of what you have been doing all these while. It is different from what people may have been telling you to do.
Step 1: Find someone or an agency who can help you. This is fundamental to your success!
Make some real research. I recommend you purchase and study this eBook that will change everything for you. The title is: HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR FOOTBALL DREAMS. and the price is only NGN3000.
Step 2: Get qualified coaches to assess your talent and give you a sincere report and recommendations on the way forward.
Book for a Talent Assessment date. One day talent assessment program price is NGN10, 000 only.
Step 3: Be ready to follow the instructions and Recommendations of the Experts (qualified coaches)
Follow Recommendations: If the expert say you need to improve your skills and recommend an academy for you, do just that. It is better to take one right step at a time, than to run very fast to nowhere. Decide you wouldn't waste your time chasing shadows in 2021!
Step 4: Invest in some materials that will promote you and increase your chances to get a genuine Trial Invitation Letters.
Produce Your Promo-Video Clips: compile video clips of your recent best performances. If you can't do it yourself, then contact us to see if you can join our next video shoot exhibition matches. We have professional cameramen and video editors that would extract your best performances and put them together in a HD video format.
Go for some Media Propaganda: we invite Journalists to our Masterclass Talent Exhibition and if you perform well, we can get them to write about you in Sports newspapers and online sports magazines and blogs.
Step 5: Register your status as Amateur or Professional player
Officially Register As A Player: If you have not officially registered your status as either an amateur or professional player, we can help you do that with NFF. And you get an official license as a player.
Get Listed on Transfermarkt: We can as well enlist you on the Transfermarkt website so clubs and agents can easily see your present status.
Step 6: Get Your Travel Documents Ready
Get Your Travel Document Ready: Go and obtain your International Passport and get ready to move at the shortest notice. You need to get your NFF introduction Letter and Player's license ready.
Take Action Now: What I have listed here may overwhelm you and you may not know how to start. Don't worry, we at GreenHunters Sports International will give you the support you need. Just call 📞 +2348098772556