The profession of sport agents is growing every year. Most of the time it is a profession of former coaches, players, club managers in the time when they don´t want to have anything in common with the club anymore. Every agent has once started his career. Collecting contacts on the managers of the clubs, searched for players, tried to connect with the agents from other countries, so they could offer to their clients as many offers as possible, so they could place them and help them in their career. Even after making a lot of effort not always will the agent find a suitable club for the player. Here are some advices how to be successful in what you are doing and will more likely by doing for a longer time.
What players to look for? Agent can determine in advance in which direction will he go.More experienced agents which are longer in the industry, have the portfolios of the best players (Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Michael Jordan). Beginning agent must collect a lot of experience, it is good to start from younger players which are only beginning to act in a professional club and place them in the lower divisions so called “cheaper clubs”. Agent will gradually develop and grows with their players. Then he can advance and enter into contracts with better known players and more prestigious clubs. However, this does not mean the fact that the agents are not able to find an excellent players right from the beginning.
We all learned how to walk when we were little, we all learned how to drive when we reached the legal age and it is the same in any other profession. It needs to start gradually, step by step to build respect, trust and recognition of players and clubs for which this co-operation is determined.
So called good agents have the smell for good players and can see their potential in young age in the lowest category, even though the player is making lot of mistakes in technique, the agent can see in his game that he has a big prospective to be a great player as Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Lyonel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Michael Jordan. With such a player the agent has also the chance to be successful and make a non-negligible name in the world of sport. On the other side of the coin is the fact that a good agent can also place the weaker players into good clubs where they can increase their performance and make a progress. The agent is important to monitor the players, watch their matches optionally trainings and to ask for a reference from coaches, scouts.
The agent, however, is never guaranteed that young and promising athlete will continue in the sport when he grows up. He is often affected by the environment, his health, and many other factors. But if he is really talented, passionate for sport and is leaded in his career correctly by coaches, supported by the family, it is a strong probability that your cooperation will be going in the right direction and you will get a chance to take care of such a player and work together to grow in his career . You as an agent must explain correctly where he is now and where do you want him to be. Work on his career and not just on your profit.
