The Formula For Finding Opportunities In Football

Liam Henshaw
3 min readAug 12, 2024
Finding opportunities in football

Football is a notoriously hard industry to work in, there are hundreds of people applying for the same jobs. So you need to know how to spot, but also create opportunities.

Unfortunately people who want to work in football just apply for jobs and rely on their degree, or previous internship experience.

The reality is 99% of people are doing the same thing.

Opportunities are not created by solely relying on your degree or previous experience.

The reasons that people don’t create opportunities for themselves:

People have similar experience

Not effectively showing their skills or knowledge

Only relying on their own contacts

Not making genuine connections

Don’t worry, following the framework below you’ll be able to overcome these problems and create more opportunities within the world of football.

Here’s how, by using the Knowledge + Online Portfolio + Connections = Opportunities framework:

“The people who get lucky are the people who manage those ‘multiple opportunity frameworks” — Daniel Geey. Source: Build the Invisible

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Liam Henshaw
Liam Henshaw

Written by Liam Henshaw

Data Analyst & 1st Team Scout | I help aspiring football professionals create opportunities in the game by writing online

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