Seok Lim - Football Agent Lab

Nacho Alcaraz, Spanish coach and analyst, stands in a blue Valencia CF training jacket in front of the club's bat crest wall at the Valencia CF academy facility in Spain.

Interview

"Football Is Not Chess, Everything Moves at the Same Time" — Nacho Alcaraz

Spanish coach, analyst, and now Technical Director. Nacho Alcaraz on five countries in nine years — Valencia youth to Silla CF to Valencia CF to Blacktown Spartans in Australia to Team Stopia FC in Korea to Canada — and on why football, for him, is never chess.

Modelos

Fast, accurate, under pressure — inside Marinos Satsias's game model

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.

Filip Nguyen, Công An Hà Nội's No. 1 goalkeeper, claims a cross during a V.League 1 match in Hanoi. © Công An Hà Nội FC

Interview

Two Homes, One Keeper — Filip Nguyen on the Art of the Right Angle

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.

Miguel Torrecilla, Spanish sporting director, with silver curly hair and salt-and-pepper beard, in a red Chilean Football Federation tracksuit with arms crossed.

Interview

46 Transfer Windows, 400 Decisions — Miguel Torrecilla

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.

Manuel Sánchez, Chilean youth football coach, in a dark navy blazer over a navy T-shirt and gray jeans, walking outdoors with a light smile in front of a chain-link fence.

Interview

"Not Winning, but Never Stopping" — The Player-Development Philosophy of Manuel Sánchez

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.

Interview

Why Before What — Tahir Salayev

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.

Lefteris Kalogirou, Greek football coach, standing in front of a goal on a grass pitch in a black gilet with hands in his pockets, under a partly cloudy sky.

Interview

Pressure Reveals the Real

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.

Tibor Selymes, Romanian football coach and former international, in a navy suit over a white shirt with arms crossed, in a studio portrait against a grey background.

Interview

A World Cup Veteran's Vision for Sustainable Football — Tibor Selymes

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.

Modelos

Give them the tools, not the answers — inside Mingo Oramas's game model

Most game models are written as instructions. This one is written as a set of decisions.

Domingo Oramas, Spanish football coach, in a black club training top, standing outdoors and looking to the side, with a building behind him.

Interview

Teaching Situations, Unlocking Creativity — Domingo Oramas

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.

Three members of the ScoutDecision team standing beside their branded stand at Web Summit in Lisbon, smiling for the camera.

Interview

ScoutDecision — Japan, Korea, and What Comes Next (Part 2 of 2)

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.

Miguel Gouveia, business developer at ScoutDecision, in a white shirt with arms folded, in a head-and-shoulders portrait against a plain white background.

Interview

ScoutDecision — Where Your Data Meets Football (Part 1 of 2)

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.