Sport Parenting: Be your child’s top fan
Perhaps it comes as an insult, but the reality is that we, parents, should learn to be our children’s top fans.
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Interview with the Vice President of FIFPro-Europe, Mr. Spyros Neophytides
Question: List and explain the most important issues faced by footballers as they near retirement. Answer: As they near retirement, footballers come across a series of different issues. One of the primary and most important issues they face is their future...
The Athlete’s Career: Knowing when to retire from field play
An athletic career in professional sports entails taking important decisions that affect both your professional career, as well as your personal life.
Preparing in advance for Retirement from Sport
The end of any playing career is a bittersweet, overwhelming moment, as athletes have to give up the life they enjoyed for years: training schedules, travels and competing in front of big crowds.
The last contract of the retiring athlete
Professional athletes in the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball were studied for a ten-year period, by researchers at the University of Missouri, who established that the so called “contract-year effect”, in the sport world, can actually be proven scientifically.
March 2020 Editorial: Mature Athlete Issues
March 1, 2020 Professional athletes dedicate their lives to sport and make a lot of personal sacrifices to pursue their athletic dreams. Usually ageing is not kind to athletes, as it impacts their performance negatively and it is a signal that their days of...
Athletic Entrepreneurship: Using your Brand to Build Business
By Demetris Constantinou, Contributor When we think about entrepreneurs, we tend to concentrate on people that came up with new ideas and innovations that have shaped our lives in different ways. While this is a core determinant of what an entrepreneur is, it...
A tribute to Kobe Bryant: The Entrepreneur and Basketball Legend
By Andreas Themistocleous, APC Sports Consulting Ltd I was wrong to think I could write this article without crying, while going through research material about the Legend of Kobe Bryant that I had witnessed in person, as a basketball player in the NCAA, during...
Building the athlete’s entrepreneurial team
By Constantinos Massonos, Contributor One of the hardest parts of a professional athlete’s life is transitioning to a second career after sports. Sports stakeholders, having recognized the issue, strive to help athletes realize that their “dream job” won’t last...
Why athletes become great entrepreneurs
By Lazaros Ioannou, APC Sports Consulting Limited There are many examples of professional athletes who made it into business after their retirement from sports. Payton Manning, David Beckham, John Elway, Magic Johnson and Venus Williams are just a few examples of...
Entrepreneurial Athletes: Think Outside the Box
By Andreas Themistocleous, APC Sports Consulting Ltd I usually take pride in calling myself an athlete. As I have exhaustively reiterated to my family and friends, “we are a different breed, we are a rare breed”. It might sound arrogant or ill intended, but I...
February 2020 Editorial: The Entrepreneur Athlete
February 1, 2020 Entrepreneurship is a lucrative post sports career option for many athletes. Entrepreneurship itself is very exciting and it usually comes with excellent wealth generating prospects. During the past decade, we have seen a number of...
Building Confidence and the impact it has on developing elite athletes
By Niovie Constantinou, Contributor “It is always in my mind still that I can crush anybody. That’s not an issue [...] If you don’t believe you can win tournaments anymore, then you can’t do it.” – Roger Federer, Tennis Player, 20-time Grand Slam Winner 20-time...
Interview with Brian Roberts, Academy Director of Performance, Advisory and Support services – Chicago Fire Soccer Academy
Question: Can you briefly go over the development model utilized by the Chicago Fire FC Academy? Answer: The vision of our academy is for the ‘academy players to be the soul of our club’. In other words, we strive for our players, who have...
Mental, cognitive and emotional development creates better athletes
By Constantinos Massonos, Contributor Sports, like everything else in life, is constantly changing and evolving. To ensure progress, athlete development specialists are continually seeking for ways to renew and upgrade their training methods and create better...
Positive Sport Parenting Contributes to the holistic development of young athletes
By Anna Kyprianou – APC Sports Consulting Ltd “Sports parenting is an art!” - Lou Ann Selsky. The holistic model of athlete development focuses on the player and the player’s athletic, personal, emotional, psychological, academic, social and financial development. ...
Sports Academies: The Contribution of Financial Education and Personal Development Programs to a Holistic Model of Athlete Development
By Athena Constantinou, APC Sports Consulting Ltd The current modus operandi of Sports Academies Current Practices Currently sports academies focus on creating the conditions necessary to produce world class players and as a result, they concentrate on teaching...
January 2020 Editorial: The Holistic Model of Athlete Development
January 1, 2020 Happy New Year to all of our readers and may 2020 be an exciting year of positive change and extraordinary growth! We start off this year by exploring the Holistic Model of Athlete Development and its positive effects on both athletes and...
The Holistic Model of Athlete Development
By Andreas Themistocleous, APC Sports Consulting Ltd Athlete development has been the focus point in sport operations for decades, however there has been an evolutionary approach to the entire process that has been shaped by socioeconomic and cultural developments,...
