78. Mariela Nisotaki: Head of Emerging Talent at Norwich City

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Mariela Nisotaki discussing the evolution of scouting and the importance of emerging talent in football.

This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Mariela Nisotaki, Head of Emerging Talent at Norwich City FC. In this exclusive, Paul & Mariela discuss the evolution of scouting, the importance of emerging talent within squad planning, finding value in different markets, setting a clear game model at a football club, how the game model influences scouting and recruitment, building a Premier League-ready squad, the challenges and learning of the role, using live scouting/data/video scouting to profile players, having a robust process to sign-off on players, working within a multi-disciplinary team and with a sporting director and so much more. - - - - - - - What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes. Please remember to support the pod with a follow & a 5 star review.

People in this episode

Host: Paul

Guest: Mariela Nisotaki

Topics covered

• scouting
• emerging talent
• football recruitment
• Premier League
• squad planning
• data analysis
• multi-disciplinary teams

Keywords

• scouting
• emerging talent
• Norwich City
• football recruitment
• Premier League
• data scouting
• player profiling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Norwich City FC

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