Marinos Satsias built his football on the pitch, not in a classroom — across 406 appearances in a single shirt. Possession is the setup, the vertical pass is the point, and the transition is the hinge the whole model turns on.
Czech-born Vietnamese international Filip Nguyen on the path from Sparta Prague's youth to Công An Hà Nội's goal, winning the 2021-22 Czech Cup with Slovácko and the 2024 ASEAN Championship with Vietnam, and finding peace in belonging to two countries without fully fitting in either.
Spanish sporting director with 24 years and close to 400 deals across 46 transfer windows. Celta de Vigo, Real Betis, Sporting Gijón, Real Zaragoza, Everton de Viña del Mar. Now Development Technical Director at the Chilean Football Federation. An old K League thread: he signed Park Chu-young.
Chilean youth football director and U19 head coach at Slovakia's Redfox FC. UEFA A, CONMEBOL PRO, Chile Pro Licence. Manuel Sánchez on Tactical Periodisation, Real Madrid Foundation, protagonist football — and, on the record, what he would seek to plant in a Korean youth system.
Tahir Salayev, Azerbaijani football coach and analyst, in a dramatic black-and-white portrait, looking down in a textured training top against a dark background.
A Greek coach who spent a decade in the lower divisions before building academies in China, Lefteris Kalogirou teaches players to thrive when the plan breaks. He joins Football Agent Lab on "Organized Chaos," why youth promise stalls, and what Greece and China get wrong.
A left-back of Romania's golden generation — a World Cup semifinalist and once Europe's best in his position — Tibor Selymes now builds players and academies at FC Politehnica Iași. He joins Football Agent Lab for an exchange on development, discipline, and what he makes of the K League.
Most game models are written as instructions. This one is written as a set of decisions.
From Las Palmas to Ecuador, India and now Australia, Domingo Oramas has spent twenty years teaching players to read the game. The Spanish methodology coach joins Football Agent Lab for a deep tactical exchange on positional play, "chasing the shadow" — and what his work could bring to the K League.
In part two, ScoutDecision heads east. Business developer Miguel Gouveia tells Football Agent Lab how the Lisbon-based platform is finding its way into Japanese football — where scouting is often still run on spreadsheets — and why Korea and the wider region are next on its map.
ScoutDecision began as a Portuguese university project and is now a football-operations platform its team says is used by 180-plus scouts, agents and clubs. In part one of two, business developer Miguel Gouveia tells Football Agent Lab why football's scattered work needs one structured home.
An "educator through sport," Italian coach Simone Canepa builds people before athletes. From an AC Milan academy in Kuwait to the Juventus Academy in Riyadh, he joins Football Agent Lab for a written exchange on coaching under-tens, brand academies, and the Gulf's fast-rising football scene.