Monday, October 21, 2013

examples of emails

Recent email I have received, through my details being on FIFA.COM

Enjoy!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Agent
.
We are glad to introduce our company specialised in sport tours and travels for young people in Italy.
.
We have been operating since 1993 and since then we have dealt with more than 2,000 teams. We started with soccer and then, year after year, we added other sports following the increasing requests we received from coaches of other sports practised in Colleges and Universities.
.
We have excellent relationships with Pro Football Club in Italy and we can arrange TEAM CAMP and TEAM TOUR to any category and age group.
.
Apart from the tours, we also organise some of the most important soccer tournaments in Italy such as:
> Venice Christmas Cup (December 27-29 in Venice): 40 teams - categories: from under 13 to under 9
> Florence Epiphany Cup (January 3-5 in Florence): 40 teams - categories: from under 17 to under 9
> Terre di Siena Cup (Easter in Tuscany): 60 teams - categories: from under 17 to under 9
> Roma Cup (Easter in Rome): 60 teams - categories: from under 17 to under 9
> Milano Festival (Easter in Milan): 80 teams - categories: from under 17 to under 9
> Pfingsten Cup (Pentecost in Emilia Romagna): 80 teams - categories: from under 17 to under 9
> Mirabilanda Cup (June 19-22 in Emilia Romagna): 60 teams - categories: from under 17 to under 9
.

In case you are interested in collaborating with us, in both ways, do not hesitate to contact us

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

hello mister fredrik
I'm young Senegalese player I would like your help  I'm a free agent fifa and club
I played the champion Senegal and tournaments in Europe
 I was in Europe in 2010 to play a tournament

I'm serious my name on google I would come in player sweden  on your help
I pay for my ticket and  hotel to come to test
I can send you the visa on my passport 
I am ready to come if you get me an invitation club
 my cv in french
cordially

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello Sir/ Ma

Hello My name is Seun Oloyede I am 16 years old ,Born in Lagos Nigeria. Am a very good Football Player , Well am looking for a Good Agent who can Manage me for as many trier in Europe and Asia for Tournament or Clubs . I have to go on a search at FI FA.com to seek for a very good Agent cos i do believe that's is the best way to Find a good Agent , so that's where i got to have your email address , hope i would be glad to hear from you soon .

My dreams is to play in Europe and be a better player , well known and famous like the professionals we see on the TV station and cables . I Play at the Central Midfielder and am very good in that , i train very harder and am always consistent athletics so i will be waiting your respond , Let me know if there is any Free Trier for your boy hope to hear from you soon , God bless you .

My Number +23470 5599 82

Best Regards

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Friend,


Complement of the day to you and your love ones
I hope my email will arrive to you at good time.
My name is Ghais Mohammed from Damascus Syria.
I am 64 years old and retired. I was former personal investor & financial consultant advisers to
a Top Politician here in SYRIA.
Why I'm contacting you is to know if we can have a personal conversation.
Whatever truth you may brief me will be highly recommended.
Tell me more about your country, how good it will be to invest in your country.
Such as buying of properties, or real estate and some tourist places or any profitable investment venture that will yield good profit.
I will appreciate whatever result you may brief me.
Do let me know your idea and knowledge regarding this or any other profitable investment venture you may suggest.
I have a substantial amount and I am willing to order the transfer of the money to you for investment if you’re interested with my proposal.
In my next mail I will explain the full details of the project and interest, and then we reach an agreement on what will be your share from the money or investment.
I shall tell you more about myself when I read from you.
You may as well tell me little more about yourself when replying.
Waiting for your reply.

Thanks and best regards,
Ghais Mohammed
Damascus,Syria:



Thursday, October 10, 2013

Whats innit for me?

late evening/early night sitting in my office reading through old texts I come up with the following reflections:

since this agent thing is a quite new environment for me and mainly due to football players being a quite unique set of people an agent is put in many strange contexts, a couple of examples;

A player gets in touch with me and asks if I can call his sport responsible and ask what the clubs future plan is. This happened today. Here an agent is put a strange position, first of all its not my client second of its quite pathetic making errands for players that are not under representation with you.. I get several requests from players every week if I can help them with different stuff. The first couple of months I was so eager I could go and buy groceries for a any player (even pay) but nowadays I most likely tell them off. It has even happened that player with an agent travelling in another continent calls me asking for help because he cant get hold of him right now.
Getting calls like this a couple of points directly pop into my head, how can this be of benefit for me? Maybe in return I can:
- get a tip of a good talent
- find out info in regards to team mates and when their agent contracts end
- give me a number or email to player
- etc.

Iam slowly coming to the realization that this is a selfish world were people are willing to give up allot in order to gain themselves. I am no exception...

The best scenario though when recruiting players is to make a hell of a job and the by word of mouth you will have more clients. Majority of the players I work with I get recommended from a fellow player. This is a a much better scenario, if the player comes to you you have the upper hand directly. Opposite to beg for a chance to represent..




Whats innit for me ? at the end of the day I think we can agree its a cash related question.


Just a couple of thoughts that probably are not that linked to each other from a tired brain..