Head of Recruitment - Cobalt Sports - London England.Cobalt Sports

Website https://cobaltsportsmanagement.co.uk/

Ellis Linkedin Profile https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ellis-bellamy-00aabb139

The Football Agent Episode...Join us in this fascinating episode as Ellis Bellamy takes us inside the world of professional football agency. An often misunderstood facet of the professional game, Ellis shines a light on the ever changing role of the football agent. Ellis, is never one to hold back, he loves football too much, to not tell it how it is. He walks us through growing up with the game in his blood, shares insight on his own youth development from a players perspective which is just gold dust for aspiring players and coaches. You will love his take on “calculated risk” and his open, vulnerable and honest take on his own mistakes and learning that have made him successful today. Ellis takes a deep dive into coaching culture and he explains how he has seen other countries approach coaching and how important it is to be authentic and the potential difficulties of being honest with young players from generation Z and Alpha…Winning - how important is it? It’s everything in the professional game. Ellis goes in on how important it is to make sure we have that authentic balance and that is not a bad thing to create winners. This is not only cutting edge, finger on the pulse as ever from Ellis but also a great insight into how both youth development and real life professional football merge. As if that isn’t enough this huge episode also deals with management, mistakes that make you better in the long run and the importance of football focus vs external distractions for young players starting out in the professional careers. Parents, coaches, players, football fans everywhere will al love his detail on talent identification, growth and maturation and what it takes to make it in this elite industry.A raw, authentic insight from someone still so young who has achieved so much already. Elis bares all in the hope it helps you learn and his vulnerability and honesty show the character and strength it takes to survive in this business… This one is a great listen and will for sure leave you thinking differently about the football agent world…