Scouting and Athlete man

What is a Sports Scout?

A sports scout is a member of the professional and university-level sporting community that helps
teams and organizations find the best athletes in the world. A typical scout will use his or her time to
travel all across the globe in order to find and assess players that fit the needs of the organizations
they represent. A scout for the sporting community is an excellent judge of talent and is able to
determine if an individual is worthy of either immediate access to a playing field, or of training and
growing their talents in practice camps.

What does a Sports Scout do?

sports scout will spend most of their time searching for new talent, watching and documenting
either young or already established players in their respective fields, and attempting to sign up
players for the organization(s) they represent. While computer software is increasingly helpful in
keeping track of a player's statistics, it is still the job of human scouts to assess the skills of players
and make judgment calls as to whether or not they are a perfect fit for the team they work for.

Sports scouts travel on a constant basis to cities and towns, both big and small, and spend numerous
hours reviewing footage, statistics and interviewing coaches and teammates. A scout for the
sporting industry must not only be an excellent judge of talent in their respective sporting field, but
must also be a skilled salesman that can sign up the best talent before other scouts do.

Additionally, a sports scout must not only be able to look at established players who are already
playing on a professional level, but also make judgment calls about young and semi-pro athletes.
Sports scouts need to be able to easily determine if younger, less-experienced athletes have the skill
sets necessary to eventually become a top-notch player. This means that sports scouts need to be
not only good judges of current skill, but judges of potential skill as well.

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What is a draft

draft is a process used in some countries (especially in North America) and sports (especially

in closed leagues) to allocate certain players to teams. In a draft, teams take turns selecting from a
pool of eligible players. When a team selects a player, the team receives exclusive rights to sign that
player to a contract, and no other team in the league may sign the player. The process is similar
to round-robin item allocation.
The best-known type of draft is the entry draft, which is used to allocate players who have recently
become eligible to play in a league. Depending on the sport, the players may come from college,
high school or junior teams, or teams in other countries. An entry draft is intended to prevent
expensive bidding wars for young talent and to ensure that no team can sign contracts with all of the
best young players and make the league uncompetitive. To encourage parity, teams that do poorly
in the previous season usually get to choose first in the postseason draft, sometimes with a "lottery"
factor to discourage teams from deliberately losing.

Other types of drafts include the expansion draft, in which a new team selects players from other
teams in the league, and the dispersal draft, in which a league's surviving teams select players from
the roster of a newly defunct franchise. Major professional sports leagues also have special
contingency plans for rebuilding a team via a disaster draft, should an accident or other disaster kill
or disable many players.

Drafts are usually permitted under antitrust or restraint of trade laws because they are included
in collective bargaining agreements between leagues and labor unions representing players. These
agreements generally stipulate that after a certain number of seasons, a player whose contract has
expired becomes a free agent and can sign with any team. They also require minimum and
sometimes maximum salaries for newly drafted players. Leagues may also allow teams to trade draft
picks among each other in exchange for other draft picks or in exchange for players.

What is salary cap

salary cap (or wage cap) is an agreement or rule that places a limit on the amount of money that a
team can spend on players' salaries. It exists as a per-player limit or a total limit for the team's
roster, or both. Several sports leagues have implemented salary caps, using it to keep overall costs
down, and also to maintain a competitive balance by restricting richer clubs from entrenching
dominance by signing many more top players than their rivals. Salary caps can be a major issue in
negotiations between league management and players' unions because they limit players' and
teams' ability to negotiate higher salaries even if a team is operating at significant profits, and have
been the focal point of several strikes by players and lockouts by owners and administrators.

What is a rookie contract

rookie is a person new to an occupation, profession, or hobby. In sports, a rookie is a

professional athlete in their first season (or year).
In contrast with a veteran who has experience and expertise, a rookie is usually
inexperienced and prone to making mistakes.

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What is Financial Fair Play?
The Financial fair play (FFP) was introduced by UEFA in 2009 to ‘improve the overall financial health
of European club football.’

FFP’s main objective is to prevent clubs from spending more than they earn in revenues. It also aims
to prevent clubs from getting into financial trouble that could affect their long-term survival.

Essentially, FFP is a regulatory tool to prevent clubs from spending more than their stipulated
budget, which could inadvertently plunge them into debts.

How does Financial Fair Play work?

UEFA permits football clubs to spend no more than €5 million (£3.9 million) over what they earn in
each three-year assessment period. There is, however, a new limit of 30 million euros (previously 45
million euros) if the owners of the club or a related party can cover these losses.

What is counted under the Financial Fair Play regulations?

To comply with the Financial Fair Play regulations, the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) stated that
only a club's outgoings in the area of transfers, employee benefits (including wages), amortisation of
transfers, financial costs and dividends will be included.

It will not include revenue from gate receipts, TV revenue, advertising, merchandising, or money
spent on infrastructure, training facilities, or youth development.

What are the punishments for breaking Financial Fair Play rules?
The football clubs found to have breached the UEFA’s Financial Fair Play regulations will face a total
of eight separate punishments. Here’s how they are ranked based on the nature of the violation.

Reprimand / Warning 

Fine

Points deduction

Withholding of revenue from a UEFA competition

Prohibition to register new players for UEFA competitions

Restrictions on number of players a club can register for UEFA competitions

Disqualification from a competition in progress 

Exclusion from future competitions

What are the criticisms of the Financial Fair Play regulations?

The first and the most notable drawback of the Financial Fair Play regulations is the rules creating a
bias between the wealthiest clubs and teams fighting to secure European football.

Sponsorship is not an area which the FFP can easily meddle in. Any sponsorship revenue received by
a club, after having had their sponsorship deals investigated and given a clear record, will be
considered an exemption from Financial Fair Play.
Earlier this year, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin confirmed that plans are in place to abolish the
Financial Fair Play regulations and replace them with a salary cap and luxury tax.

As per reports, clubs in European competition would be allowed to spend 70 per cent of their revenue
on salaries. Any team that breaches the new rules will have to pay a luxury tax where 'the equivalent
or more' of any overspend would go into a pot to be split among other clubs.

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