Hello,
As I have mentioned over the past few weeks, we are ready to onboard our first staff person. The position is Videographer. I am fundraising for them and asking if you will help.
I aim to pay them 1,100 Emalangeni (Eswatini's currency) per game for one weekly game. So $59 per week, $236 a month. This will cover transport fees, lunch, time filming games, and post-match work ("cutting" film and creating highlight packages). I must also purchase and maintain film equipment, so anything extra will go toward that.
The Videographer will attend Saturday games with me, film one match, and "cut" the film into a highlight package afterward. It would help tremendously if you contributed.
You may do so here.
I have seventy players in our database. They are unknown domestically and internationally, and creating highlight packages is the next step in publishing our database online and promoting them globally.
This is a special time. If we can fund this role, it will jumpstart "changing" football. I cannot express it enough, but what we do is transformative. I have scouted seven days a week for three and a half months and discovered an exorbitant amount of players between ten-fifteen years old. Eswatini does not have information on these players, nor does the world. Our database is a unique initiative and will change things for Swazi football, world football, and, most importantly, marginalized youth.
An example of our impact is a thirteen-year-old from the outskirts of Mbabane (Eswatini's capital) in a rural community called Mpolonjeni. I connected with his youth coach two months ago and drove to the training ground with him. The road into his community is long and—nearly—impossible to drive on. I noticed him that day. I have since connected him with the U13 national team and a new club team that the national team head coach runs. I met with the national team coach in my car outside a local grocery store and showed him clips on my phone—this is the simplicity of promoting talent.
Immediately, he wanted him.
It was challenging for his parents, but they got him to Manzini (Eswatini's largest city) for a trial with his new club.
He owned his position and played fantastically. So much so the coach and everyone were talking to me about him—shaking my hand, praising the discovery, etc. If we can fund a Videographer, we can create a full game and highlight package for this player. Then, we can promote him globally.
The simplicity of what I did in my car is what I will do internationally utilizing a database. Additionally, locally, I can take his reports, film, and entire player file to the Eswatini Football Association hierarchy and promote him further. Showing them and the world complete profiles of talented players like this will do wonders for marginalized youth and international football. Who knows what he will become, but he deserves the chance to use his talent to advance his life.
Will you help?
Your charitable options are endless—I know it more than anyone. However, Fisher Talent Group is unique and recognizes the difference between "helping" and "changing." If we publish our database online, we can change football and enable further fundraising.
As mentioned previously, you may donate here.
Thank you for considering, and every bit helps pay our Videographer, publish our database, and make headway. We have nearly one-fourth of the $236 raised and need the remainder—so please support us if you can. Thank you again. We cannot change the world independently, but we will together.
Until next time.
Live forever,
Rob Fisher
Executive Director and Head of Scouting