San Francisco: Two Argentine entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley have created Gloria, a social network for young football players designed to standardize the talent scouting process.
Gloria allows anyone, regardless of their abilities, to create a profile where they can post personal data (such as date of birth, height and foot size) and soccer skills — such as what position they play, which foot is their stronger one — as well as upload videos to show off their talent.
However, Gloria is not the first of her kind. In 2018, Damian Acri and Abel Soriano, another two entrepreneurs passionate about the sport, created CV Players — the first social media for footballers. It made them realize that of the 1,500 football leagues in Argentine — only 10 percent of them participated fully in the players market.
Now again, thanks to Gloria, football clubs and scouts can use the profiles to streamline their search for players by selecting for positions, skills and geographic location, among other things, along with watching the videos to find players they want to contact, reports Efe news.
“We’re standardizing how talent is selected online. We tell the players what kind of content they need for scouts to determine if they are interested in them or not,” said Victoire Cogevina, who co-founded Gloria along with Matias Castello.