Become a Football Intermediary - with Professional Mentoring
Created by e-Careers and our team of Football Intermediaries!
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Flexible payment options available - 0% interest over 12 months.
- Tutor is available to students
Overview
Our FIA Football Intermediary Certificate is delivered via eLearning and includes professional mentoring.
To become a successful Football Agent (also know as a Football Intermediary), first and foremost you need the industry specific knowledge as well as the expertise to help up-and-coming sports professionals realise their dreams of becoming a professional footballer.
Our FIA Football Intermediary Certificate is achieved through a series of 16 modules, covering essential topics within this business, such as the transfer window and processing a deal.
This course is 100% online, enabling you to study whenever and wherever suits you best.
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Description
This Football certificate has been designed to educate individuals looking to become Football Intermediaries, through an interactive, online Football Intermediary Course.
Through 16 modules you will learn the essential skills and knowledge to be able to consider a career as a Football Intermediary, where you will be able to support up-and-coming sports professionals and help them to realise their dreams of becoming professional footballers.
Upon completion, you will gain a course completion certificate and receive mentoring from our team of Intermediaries, including Football Intermediary and Sports Lawyer Xabier de Beristain Humphrey.
About Xabier de Beristain Humphrey
Football Intermediary
Xabier is an all-round sports professional! He is not only one of the most highly regarded sports intermediaries in the industry but he is also fluent in four languages, including English, Spanish, French and German, making him one of a select few football agents and lawyers, who can represent his clients directly in different parts of the world.
He original played at the Athletic Bilbao Academy, alongside Mikel Arteta and Xabi Alonso, so understands the players side of the business as well as the agent side.
DBW Global, his Sports agency, has supported a range of quality football players, including:
- Robert Pires (Arsenal)
- Gael Clichy (Arsenal)
- Gaizka Mendieta (Valencia)
- Kepa Arrizabalaga (Chelsea)
Qualified Sports Lawyer
Besides being an ex-player and current football agent, Xabier is also a highly respected sports and commercial sector lawyer, representing leading law firms like Clifford Chance LLP and Allen & Overy.
Professional Mentor
Finally, Xabier is passionate about education and he regularly supports football clubs by addressing and educating parents, players and sports management/ club representatives on a wide range of topics surrounding the football industry.
Football Intermediary Certificate Course Modules
The Football Intermediary Certificate is 100% online, covering 16 key modules, which will provide you with enough knowledge about the world of being a Football Intermediary (and discuss how to become a football agent), to help you get on your way in this new career.
The course is both interactive and engaging, ensuring you’re learning process is comfortable, with detailed explanations via animations and quizzes, delivered in an easy to understand and internalise format. Study at a pace, time and location that suits you best, thanks to our unlimited 24-hour access, throughout a 12-month period. As you learn more, you will gain an appreciation for the requirements of becoming a Football Intermediary, what typical football agent jobs look like day-to-day and gain a knowledge of the sector to be able to achieve success as a Football Intermediary.
Course Modules
Our football course includes 16 course modules which, upon completion, will help to work towards successfully becoming a Football Intermediary.
These courses include:
- Background to Intermediary Regulations
- Client Identification
- Recruitment Procedure
- Football Clubs: Making Contacts and Building Relationships
- Sales & Player Marketing
- Transfer Windows
- Process of a Deal
- Relocation & Player Settlement
- Working with other Intermediaries
- Dealing with the Press
- International Markets
- Successfully Navigating English FA Work Permit Regulations
- Client Retention
- Professional Advice
- Being Commercial
- Internet Marketing
Why should I study football qualifications to become an Intermediary?
First the question is why should you become a Football Intermediary?
Really, the fact you’re even reading this shows a level of interest in this sector. Now’s the time to take that interest and turn it into drive and ambition. Study to gain your certificate and turn that interest into a career!
Life as a Football Intermediary can be hugely rewarding, both financially speaking (Jorge Mendes earned over £19m arranging the transfer of Cristiano Renaldo to Juventus) and through personal job satisfaction (you are, after all, helping players achieve their dreams of playing professional football).
So, why should you study towards a football qualification to become a Football Intermediary?
Having a certification in this sector shows that you have put the hours in studying to gain the required knowledge to be a success, to gain the necessary industry skills and a certificate shows that you have achieved this to a high standard.
Who is the football certificate course suitable for?
There are no prerequisites to enrol onto this football agent course – anyone can sign up. It is beneficial if you are a confident communicator and a good negotiator with excellent interpersonal skills.
The only official requirement there is to become a Football Intermediary is to comply with your local FA’s rules.
For those looking to work in the UK, this includes:
- Passing a DBS check
- Completing a code of practice assessment
- Paying a £500+VAT registration fee
We offer three payment options to make enrolling on this course easier for you:
- Payment in full
- Split the payment
- Finance Options (spread over up to 24 months - this option requires a credit check)
Who is this course for?
This course is for anyone who wants to pursue a career in the booming football industry, an industry worth billions worldwide.
Requirements
There are no prerequisites for this course, meaning anyone can take it and fulfill their dream of working in the football industry.
Career path
Our students who go on to complete this course will go on to work within the football industry, and work their way up to become football agents.
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