Submission to connect professional and amateur footballers and clubs, Footsider organized this friday “teh largest survey in France” for women.
Paris FC, Fleury, Metz… 33 professional, amateur and foreign clubs responded to the appeal Platform application to connect footballers and professional and amateur football clubs founded in 2022 by Yacine Brahimi and Ronaldinho. They met on Friday, in the east of Paris, for this second Women’s Scout Day. About a hundred players, pre-selected thanks to the sports curriculum compiled on the application, “the Linkedin of football», therefore participated in what was presented as “the largest takeover in France”.
“The goal of this detection is to put something physical into what we call physical. The aim is to bring together the 100 best players from our Footsider panel through one event so that clubs can, beyond the app, see our profiles on the pitch once a year.explains Sami Benchebana, sports director Platformin a press release recalling that the project “comes from the Second Chance Academy association. We have been carrying out surveys throughout France and French-speaking countries for more than five years. With the arrival of COVID we decided to digitize the project. The idea was to facilitate recruitment for the club and vice versa for the players through an application. Today we have 150,000 users and 2,600 registered clubs..
Three professional contracts last year
And to add: “being able to bring together a panel of 100 players on the same day, from the Under 14 to the Senior generation, without travel and trips around the fields, is an possibility. in this case,it allows players to step out of their comfort zone by playing with players they don’t know. After last year’s event, 12 players tried out. Some have signed with clubs in France and abroad.The conversion rate is between 6 and 10% for Footsider in terms of connecting players to clubs. Let’s give these players who haven’t gone through the classic system a chance to be seen. It gives them the opportunity to reach a level that they may not be able to reach at a club. We try to create meetings between players and clubs and the objective remains to facilitate purchases”. For the first edition, three players won professional contracts.