Like many aspiring Analysts, I have spent the past year writing letters to football clubs; both football league and non-league. Any club within two hours driving distance has received a letter from me asking to shadow Performance Analysis staff, film matches or anything that I could offer or do to help. Up until a few weeks ago, I had received only one reply, a letter back (from the club manager) explaining that there were too many people at this club. Although disappointed, I appreciated that the manger had taken the time to reply.
Several weeks ago I received a phone call from Gillingham FC regarding a letter that I wrote about 6 weeks previous. Since this time I have been invited to meet the club’s head of sport science, had meetings with the manager, attended training sessions, as well as being part of decision making. I am in a very lucky position and prior to me starting with Gillingham, there was no Analyst working directly with the first team.
My input has gone from opinion to creating clips to enhance feedback, to creating statistics and now looking forward to improving the current oppositional analysis that I have been doing, networking with other analysts from clubs in the same league. Although just on an internship basis currently, there is a lot of potential that this could turn into a permanent role for me. Any aspiring analysts that may be reading this, a little bit of luck is all it takes.
Any League 1 analysts reading this, I would be very interested in connecting with you, please contact me on nicholas.gearing@live.co.uk.
Thanks for reading and wish me luck…
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