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At MAKELLOS SMC, every athlete is an individual and a brand. We believe every athlete has a story to tell hence, we provide the foundation for athletes to have a long and rewarding professional career. We also encourage our athletes to share their story, build their brand as they journey to success at the highest level.
To achieve this, we leverage on our extensive experience, team of professionals, network of clubs and partners, to provide personalized pathway for our athletes. Our team of experts collaboratively, offer an elite level of expertise, influence, access and insight across the sport landscape thus providing our athletes with the support and high-quality representation they need to reach the highest levels of their profession. We also have close ties with Media Professionals, Fitness Experts, Recovery Clinics etc to ensure that succeed both on and off the pitch.
Our Services include;
Player Representation & Intermediation Services
Personal Branding & PR Management
Lifestyle Management
Commercial Deals and Sponsorship
Wealth Management & Post-Career Planning
We believe that as a professional you deserve –and should demand –the very best representation that is available.
Our network of agents, registered Intermediaries, lawyers, commercial managers, and mentors who are vast in the regulations and employment laws would ensure that we are able to provide you with independent advice, guidance, support and are always on hand to defend your interest during contract negotiations for transfers or renewals to ensure you get the best in every possible area.
Our wide network also becomes crucial when it comes to reviewing contracts with international dimension (both playing and commercial)
Our team are also able to provide support for citizenship services and optimize tax payments, among other areas that are crucial in order not to block your professional future and avoid any unpleasant surprises.
Personal Branding & PR Management
Our team of public relations experts would help you build your digital brand and manage your reputation through media channels—including broadcast, print, radio, and online media outlets.
With the media having an increasingly greater impact on the athlete’s lives, minor infractions, personal and family scandals and financial problems can lead to serious reputational and financial damage for players, if not managed properly. Hence, more and more athletes are signing up with us to help them manage their reputation on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) to ensure that they can focus on what is truly important.
Since media channels such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram allow fans to follow their idols and communicate directly with them, our team of social media experts would help increase your commercial value by growing and managing your (engaged) followers, and thereby increase your attractiveness to other clubs and any sponsors.
We would also interface with and manage the press to ensure that you’re your view is properly presented and reputation is protected.
Lifestyle Management
As an athlete, staying competitive is very demanding and requires total commitment and focus. Yet daily personal matters have the capacity to cause distractions for professional athletes.
Our team of dedicated support staff would help take care of these very important essentials to allow you have the time to focus on improving your performance on and off the pitch.
We have global connections and experienced staff who can organize every aspect of your trip or event down to the last detail. We provide for all your personal needs such as personal medical care, drugstore pickups, personal security guards, secretarial services, arrangements for night-life entertainment, concert tickets.
We take the utmost care and provide the services under confidentiality.
Commercial Deals and Sponsorship
As top priorities, we would help you maximize your marketing opportunities in the areas of Commercial Deals and Sponsorship.
We believe that your achievement on the field makes you interesting for potential sponsors hence, our goal would be to capitalize on your on-field success to create endorsement and/or commercial opportunity at every level.
Our team of dedicated support staff would focus on creating product endorsement opportunities including;
- Boot Deals
- Speaking Engagement
- Personal Appearances
- Advertising Campaigns
- Athlete Modelling
- Celebrity Placement
In the ideal world, a professional athlete will generate significant income and wealth within the career span; hence wealth management is key.
As a sporting professional the highs can be incredible, but the lows can be devastating. So, knowing your financial future is secure for both you and your family is crucial. For an athlete without prior financial awareness, this can be the source of considerable difficulties.
As an agency, we believe our athlete’s wealth management & post career planning should begin from the day he signs his first Pro-Contract.
At MAKELLOS, you would be advised on the essentials of good financial housekeeping and also receive the best wealth management advise.
We follow a step-by-step process to determine each client's unique situation, visions, financial needs, short, medium and long-term goals.
Through our strategic alliance with duly licensed financial advisers, we provide guidance towards selected, viable and safe investment options including real estate Investments, mutual funds, stocks & Bonds. We also investigate and advise on other investment opportunities that may interest our clients.
Post Career Planning
We take good care and commit effort to understanding our clients’ interests off the pitch, enabling us to identify the areas of enterprise in which they have particular strengths and talent as well as where they may require support.
Armed with this personalized knowledge, our team of licensed career planners and advisers would develop a post-playing career plan for you. This plan would be reviewed and updated periodically and ready for implementation at the right time.
Our Post Career Planning would ensure an effective transition from active athletic career to an appropriate alternative at the end of your professional career.