football trials plan
WHAT YOU GET (All in One Package) :
- One year national visa,
- one year residence permit,
- one year playing card in amateur club “Elafia Rhodes fc“
*players which can play in a better league are transferred to other clubs the same day,
* if the process for your playing card takes more than the two weeks trial period we will host you until you get it
Country: Greece, Europe.
Venue: E.A.K. Rhodes island
Dates: Football trials are available at:
- December 10th, 2021,
- January 10th, 2022,
- July 10th, 2022
Registration closes one month before the trial
Do I need A Visa To Enter Greece?
Yes, you do. Before Covid-19 you could enter Greece with a short stay tourist visa C OR long stay national visa D, depending your purpose of visit & your goals. Currently, Greek embassies are processing ONLY National Visa D (type A.2.7). Before registering in our football trials it is MANDATORY to read our post about visas. Read it carefully, digest the information & take a decision.
What's Included In The Football Tryout?
- One year National visa D (type A.2.7) for sports reasons
- One year residence permit
- One year playing card with an amateur club
- coaching with first team, “shadow squads” or “development squads” or academy of a semi-pro or amateur club – depending on your level of play
- full training kit
- airport transfers on arrival & departure at the start & end of the trial
- full board accommodation in a 3 star hotel (breakfast, lunch, dinner) during the 2 weeks trial
- salary starts from 300 euro per month, if you will be selected
- Air ticket to / from Greece is not included
- insurance is NOT provided for the duration of trial. Players must secure their own travel / health insurance
With Which Clubs Are We Working With?
Payments
You can pay the trial fee to:
Account holder: Idsoccer Limited
Idsoccer Company number: 12697241
Registered office address: 63-66 Hatton Gardens, Fifth Floor, Suite 23, Holborn, London, England, EC1N 8LE
IBAN: BE92967114300823
BANK NAME: TransferWise Europe SA
Bank code (SWIFT/BIC): TRWIBEB1XXX
Bank Address: Avenue Marnix 13-17, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
Clubs We Are Working / Worked With
Pirsos Grevenon FC
Trials & Transfers | 2015
Greece | 4th Tier | Amateur
Pae Acharnaikos FC
Trials & Transfer | 2016
Greece | 2nd Tier | Professional
Apollon Pontou FC
Trials & Transfer | 2016 & 2017
Greece | 2nd Tier | Professional
AS Rodos FC
Trials & Transfer | 2018 & 2019 & 2020
Greece | 4th & 3rd & 2nd Tier | Amateur & Professional
AO Hanion FC
Trials & Transfer | 2016
Greece | 2nd Tier | Professional
Aera Afantou FC
Trials & Transfer | 2019
Greece | 4th Tier | Amateur
PAS Lamia 1964
Trials & Transfers | 2015
Greece | 2nd Tier | Professional
PAE Platanias FC
Trials & Transfer | 2016
Greece | 2nd Tier | Professional
Enosi Apostolou Pavlou FC
Trials & Transfer | 2016 & 2017
Greece | 3rd Tier | Amateur
AS Makedonikos FC
Trials & Transfer | 2016 & 2017
Greece | 3rd Tier | Amateur
Alloa Athletic FC
Trials | 2018
Scotland | 2nd Tier | Professional
AE Pontion Vatolakou FC
Trials | 2018
Greece | 3rd Tier | Amateur
Niki Volou FC
Trials & Transfer | 2016
Greece | 3rd Tier | Amateur
GAS Ialysos 1948 FC
Trials & Transfer | 2018 - 2021
Greece | 3rd & 4th Tier | Pro & Amateur
CD Trofense FC
Trials & Transfer | 2019
Portugal | 3rd Tier | Semi Professional
FAS Naousa FC
Trials | 2017
Greece | 3rd Tier | Amateur
AE Panaigialios FC
Trials & Transfer | 2018 & 2019
Greece | 2nd Tier | Professional
AE Karitsas FC
Trials & Transfer | 2019
Greece | 3rd Tier | Amateur
Player Transfers
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Our Mission
We love helping young amateur and professional footballers achieve their dreams. We have passion for discovering unknown, unfamous talented football players and inventing new profitable channels to market them.
Focus on developing your game, both on and off the pitch, at all levels. Do all that is necessary to ensure that you will have clear pathways to play and govern the game.
We are acting as a friend, advisor, mentor and a business associate at the same time.
If you are aged over 18 (goalkeepers included), play in an academy or amateur or semi-pro football club, have the talent & will to work hard to rocket sky your career then our football trials in Greece for 2021 is the right path for you.
We offer trials at club’s first team, “shadow squads”, “development squads” or academy. No scouts. No trial tournaments. No one-day trials. No one-day trial games. No one-day training & selection. No such crap. You will train & play for at least a week with / against your future teammates.
With over 8 years experience in professional football trials with African players in Europe we rest assure you, if you are a gifted footballer, we have a club waiting for you.
What Do We Offer in Our Football Trials?
Is Training Professional?
Do I Have to Pay for Football Trials?
Scouts Are Going To Attend My Football Trial?
What Can I Expect From A Football Trial?
How Can I Earn From A Greek Club?
Is Your Football Trials The Right Path For Me?
Not everyone is suited to becoming a professional footballer. If you are meant to make a real difference rather than being stuck in a 9-5 job & play amateur football with your friends then this football trial is for you. And for that, you need to start somewhere.
This is what our European football trials in Greece are about. We are offering you a road map & a path.
Can You Guarantee That I Will Get A Professional Football Contract?
Because none in the world can guarantee that a footballer is capable to play as a pro.
Will Any Professional Football Club Be Interested In Me?
All clubs are interested in getting cheap players in all positions. You are a cheap player for them now. Never forget that.
Who Will Represent Me at the Football Tryout?
We have to be selective and pick our players based on attitude, ambition and ability. Our philosophy has always been to keep our player’s list small but filled with quality. In that way we can manage everyone equally and give everyone the attention they need in a professional working class environment.
But if you succeed in our trials we will have an eye on you and scout you for one year. Then, if you impress us, we will offer you a professional representation contract.
Let’s Talk Money. Is There Enough Money For Everyone?
Additionally, for international players, clubs may pay their insurance & resident permit if any or both needed.
When Are We Going To Get Our Money Back?
We give some time to the football player to be pro while, in the meantime, is developing. Then the money will follow. May be not in his first professional contract. Football & other sports are high risk investments. Therefore, an agent without connections, a fraud agent, greediness, injuries, nonprofessional players & other small or big unexpected factors can easily ruin a player’s career & send all business plans to the waste basket.
No big money now. No big money after six months. May be some money next year. Be patient. With yourself & your goals.
Our Unique & Controversial Football Trials Approach
In our era there has been an increasing emphasis in the use of science-based support systems offering a more holistic approach to the complex process of talent identification in football.
Therefore, we consider a holistic multidisciplinary approach to predict or identify potential future elite players. We are approaching player selection & recruitment by scientific evidence; rather than coaches subjective preconceived notion of the ideal player which result in repetitive misjudgments in player’s identification processes & lacks consistency.
If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.
Recruitment Process
Our new approach in recruiting is nationwide (Greece) & furthermore global. Instead of recruiting players locally, we take advantage of our trial events to sign professional contracts with international players.
Our aim is to provide to our partner clubs, through our football trials, footballers capable to create or score goals. We focus on creative footballers with exceptional character, hungry to play football & ready to sacrifice a lot of things in their personal life.
The Challenges
There is no more room for romanticism & amateurism. You should be a world class performer that get paid according to your performance, the attraction you generate among the general public & to the value you can create.
The development of genuine expertise requires struggle, sacrifice & honest, often painful self-assessment. There are no shortcuts. It will take you at least a decade to achieve expertise & you will need to invest that time wisely by engaging in practice that focuses on tasks beyond your current level of competence & comfort (deliberate practice). It entails considerable, specific & sustained efforts to do something you can’t do well—or even at all.
Practice deliberately but also think deliberately
Goal Is Expensive
While this statement is simple – as most important things in our life – it is also a hard truth. Remember it in each trial day. This is what a football director or coach is looking for & is willing to pay.
We already know, as a company, that several thorough analysis provide evidence of a strong correlation between the revenues of a club & the on-field performance of the team. But there is also evidence of a strong correlation between the wage expenditure & the performance.
Next time you will ask us to represent you & start a negotiation with an interested club remember the correlation between your performance & club revenue. And, keep in mind that your performance is earning contracts. Not we.
Your contract can have a “decent salary” or “the square root of zero”.
Our Agenda
To give a competitive advantage to our partnered clubs by developing a talent pool of high potential & high performing footballers through a secure trial path.
We are able to identify the better footballers earlier than our competitors. How? By Finding alternative, innovative & less costly “channels”, like football trials, for advance recognition of promising athletes with the potential to excel in football.
Partner clubs… are able to sustain lower investments for development & training programs & therefore grant a competitive edge.
International Footballers… who are struggling to enter professional football can grab the opportunity, through our football trials in Greece & follow a secure path to the top.
It’s up to the clubs & footballers to both enter this well-trodden path & succeed.
Football Trials Tips
Does it seems like anything you do doesn’t work? While for lower leagues, physicals are most important, what does it take to succeed in a football trial & enter professional football?
More than 90% of recruits will receive the devastating news that they just aren’t good enough for a career at the top of the game. There are a lot of young potential stars out there & very few places to be filled.
Most coaches aren’t looking for raw talent. You’re going to need it but the people in the know are looking for something else too... character & a few other things briefly mentioned below.
If you think you’ve got what it takes to succeed, you’ve got to give yourself the best possible chance of being spotted
Correct Mindset
Being on trial is a mental test. Approach it with positive thinking. Managers are not trying to prove you aren’t good enough. They are on your side. They love finding raw diamonds. No need to do something special like dribble past ten men. Enjoy the challenge & play to your strengths
Remember: You will be judged on your overall performance & not just one or two highlights
Positive Mental Attitude
Support your teammates selflessly. Encourage them. Pay respectful attitude towards everybody on & off the field. You’re here to play football. That’s what you do best. Don’t forget that. If it doesn’t work out first time around, simply dust your boots off & get back on. Once you succeed, don't stop. Move forward again
Remember: Be humble in triumph as in disappointment. Learn from your mistakes. Mistakes are great. Smile & Have Fun
Play to your strengths
Thinking about how to get rid of your weaknesses? What if you turn things around & focus on your strengths instead? You can’t be good at everything.
"Strengths are not activities you’re good at, they’re activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you’re doing it you look forward to doing it; while you’re doing it, time goes by quickly & you can concentrate; after you’ve done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.” says Marcus Buckingham (an author & a strength strategist)
Remember: Forget Your Weaknesses. Communicate all these signals saying "I’m here & I’m ready to be a professional footballer"
Be physically prepared
Get yourself into the best physical shape possible. Before tryout put yourself through the pain barrier with a variety of long distance runs, speed work & technical drills. Show the coach that you have great fitness. Prove of being physically fit enough to play football at a high tempo for 90 minutes
Remember: There is simply no excuse not to be. You will be significantly decrease your chances of success in our football trials by playing competitive football only for 50 - 60 minutes
Awareness
Listen & concentrate to coaches instructions. Stay alert to what’s happening all over the pitch. Have your head up & scan the field. Make mental pictures of where opponents & teammates are. Get the best position with/without the ball. Adapt to difficult situations & provide creative solutions. Be vocal. Be loud. Be a leader
Remember: You can significantly increase your chances of success in football by narrowing your focus on what you are great at.
Never give up
People pay keen attention to negative information. People remember four negative memories for every positive one. Don't. An antique watch is priceless at antique shops & worthless in modern shops. Keep going until you find the club which can evaluate your true abilities & fulfill your expectations.
Experts are always made, not born. Go all the way... NEVER GIVE UP
Remember: Football is an opinion game. Everybody has one