Going to Football trials can be such an exciting idea for kids that are interested in becoming professional football players. Trials consists on football matches or demonstrations where agents look for potential talents that can be developed in order to achieve a professional football player for certain club or team.
These agents are sent by academies or football teams in the search of talent. Of course this search doesn’t have the aim of promoting sports uniquely. We all have seen how the football sport market is moving millions and how players earn ridiculous amounts of money. So this search is basically and investments. If a child is spotted and the team wants to provide education and training the kid needs to sign an exclusivity contract. This means that is the kid later wants to play for another team he or better said, the team that wants him needs to pay money to the club that owns him.
Unfortunately not all kids have the chance to access to this kind of sport education so it is a very hard decision to only choose the kids with the potential. As you may expect some kids dream about getting recruited by one of these agents and that is why they spend all their free time training and developing their football skills.
Years ago when kids played for the sake of fun they were not recruited in this way. Agent would go around neighborhoods and perhaps some inter school tournaments in the search of these new talents. With the development of the football industry , being a professional football player is really a golden dream for a child because of the money and fame factor involved. This is why Football trials are very popular and parents prepare their kids to have a chance in one of these castings.
Many people argue that the true love for sports its being lost with this kind of behavior because being a professional sport player is being looked as the same as being a pop star. There is also an argument that says that player don’t love their team and don’t play to defend their true colors but that they do it only for the money. There is nothing wrong earning money and doing what you really love doing at the same time. As anything in life it can be argued that football recruiting is not only about having talent and being the best but also about having a little bit of luck. If you think about it there are many talented kids in the streets and not all of them have the same opportunity to develop their talent and be seen by agents.