FGS client Eoin McKeown signs for Buxton FC

Future Global Sports client Eoin McKeown has completed a move to Buxton FC on a one-year deal.

McKeown, 24, joins the National League North club on a one year deal after moving from Tamworth FC where he scored 21 goals in 46 appearances for the club, winning the Southern Premier League Central league title in 2022/23 season.

McKeown, a powerful agile forward who can play as a central striker or wide forward, joined Tamworth FC in February 2022 when the club were lower mid-table. There the former Colchester United academy graduate helped transform the club’s fortunes, with his combination of pace, directness and goals helping turn the Lambs into title contenders and league winners in his first full season.

At Future Global Sports we are delighted to help complete this deal for Eoin, who had several clubs interested in his signature after an excellent spell at Tamworth FC that has helped re-establish his reputation.

Given Buxton FC’s ambitions we feel this could be a great move for the player and the chance to establish himself at a higher level.

Done deal. Future is McKeown!

WATCH: Clips from Eoin McKeown’s title winning season at Tamworth FC here:

Future Global Sports launches National League Managers Report highlighting best-performing non-league managers

Following the 2021 launch of our Future Global Sports Premier League Under-23s Talent ID Report, a comprehensive document that offered information on every player at Under-23 level in both Premier League and PL2 academies, FGS is pleased to announce the launch of our National League Managers Report profiling every manager at Step 1 and 2 level from the 2021/2022 season.

The report comprehensively details the profiles, playing styles and unique attributes of more than 50 managers at National League level, including managers at National League, National League South and National League North levels, with the aim of highlighting managerial talent at non-league level and offering a data-led, more objective means of uncovering the best performing managers at this level.

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The FGS National League Managers Report is aimed at chief executives, chairmen and club owners at clubs across the country at both EFL level and non-league.

For club owners, chief execs / sporting directors: Finding the most suitable manager that provides the best fit for your football club can be the difference between success and failure, and with Brexit narrowing the talent pool of available managers for hire in the United Kingdom, the FGS National League Managers Report offers independent analysis that can quickly highlight the most suitable fit for your club, be it in terms of playing style or general profile.

As Ian Burchnall’s rise from the National League to League One with Forest Green demonstrates there is a talent pool of managers below the EFL that is increasingly being looked to by forward-thinking and open-minded club chief executives and chairmen who understand the untapped managerial talent that is available in non-league.

For managers: Boost your CV and understand your overall place compared to your peers with our comprehensive 34-page report. The report arms you with objective evidence of your overall ranking compared to other managers, stripping down budget and other factors to give a true reflection of manager intent and playing style. Using data to analyse 70+ managers in the National League. our report can also act as a highly effective opposition analysis tool.

For football enthusiasts: The report is the first of its kind and gives clear, objective analysis of the top emerging managers at this level of football, offering both journalistic and general interest.

For further information and a 20% discount link to purchase the report see the following link.

Future Global Sports enters strategic partnership with NextPro Sports to strengthen ties in East Africa

FGs football agency East Africa

Future Global Sports is delighted to announce that it has signed a strategic partnership with East African-based agency NextPro Sports to combine player representation and commercial efforts in order to increase each agency's reach and that of their athletes.

Future Global Sports is a fast-growing, international sports management consultancy based in England working with athletes, clubs and brands in the UK and internationally while NextPro Sports is a professional athlete management agency based in Kampala, Uganda, representing athletes from the region.

Key clients for NextPro Sports include Ugandan international Allan Okello, one of African football's biggest young talents, Ivan Sserubiri and Gerald Kirya.

The principle aim of this partnership will be to develop and expand opportunities available for athletes in both continents, including sourcing opportunities for NextPro Sports athletes in all territories outside Africa.

"For the past year we have shared several hugely positive, fruitful conversations with NextPro Sports in order to establish a bridge from Africa to Europe, and in particular the growing East African market," said Jonathan Fadugba, co-founder of Future Global Sports.

"This strategic partnership will see FGS align our recruitment and scouting efforts in both women's and men's football with that of NextPro Sports and share market knowledge in order to help develop and guide the next generation of athletes in Uganda and East Africa more widely, and source pathways into European football for career development."

The two parties will also work towards the development and betterment of football in the region, with a commitment to working to improve the level of African football in three key areas: the playing side, the commercial side and the administrative side.

“This partnership is a step towards our long-term vision as NextPro Sports and we’re committed to working with Future Global Sports for the best interests of our athletes and betterment of the game of football in general” said Sultan Atubo, founder of NextPro Sports.

NextPro Sports and Future Global Sports will jointly represent athletes including Allan Okello and work collaboratively in relation to all income-generating activities, on and off the field.

Eoin McKeown signs with Future Global Sports

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Future Global Sports is delighted to announce that Eoin McKeown has appointed us to represent him on an exclusive basis.

McKeown, 23, spent four years at SkyBet League Two side Colchester United following a successful trial as a teenager in 2015. A tall, agile striker, McKeown can run in behind as a number 9 or operate as a target man utilising his strong 6ft 2in frame.

Highlights of striker Eoin McKeown in action

McKeown scored on his debut for Colchester in the FA Trophy against Reading in 2017, and had spells at Wealdstone, Maldon and Tiptree, Welwyn Garden City and Kings Langley before leaving the Us in 2019.

The striker is pursuing his education in sports management at Loughborough University but immediately joins National League South side Braintree Town after signing for Future Global Sports, with a firm desire to show his talents and push on back into the professional game.

“I am delighted to be signing with Future Global Sports,” Eoin commented after putting pen to paper. “I feel it’s the right step for me to get back into professional football having seen the track record of players that have progressed under their guidance.”

At Future Global Sports we believe Eoin has unfinished business and the skillset to achieve more and push up the divisions.

At 23 there is a dearth of top strikers at this level - we feel that with consistent hard work, focus and the right guidance Eoin can be one of them.

Welcome to FGS. Future is McKeown!

Cameron Fogerty signs with Future Global Sports

Future Global Sports is delighted to announce that Cameron Fogerty has appointed us to represent him on an exclusive basis.

Fogerty, 18, is one of the most exciting young players in non-league football and has burst onto the scene at Hyde United, becoming an important player for the club and first team regular despite his youthful age.

Fogerty was 17 when he made his debut for Hyde United in the Northern Premier League, step 3 of men’s football, at the start of this season. The talented central midfield player emerged through the club’s academy where he starred in an impressive 2020/21 FA Youth Cup campaign that saw Hyde reach the first round, beating Stockport County before narrowly losing to Tranmere Rovers on penalties.

His performances saw him promoted to the first team where he has made an immediate impact, putting in a string of outstanding performances to win the club’s Player of the Month award for August 2021.

Fogerty has gone on to make 20 appearances for the club so far in 2021/22 despite only turning 18 in August, scoring one goal. He is a tactically astute, mature young midfielder who reads the game well and imposes himself on play. He can operate as a number four, eight or 10.

Cameron Fogerty first senior goal against Glossop North End (October 2021)

“Cameron shows great composure for somebody so young as well as being competitive,” says his manager at Hyde, Jim Gannon. “It is not just his tactical awareness, but psychologically. He is as focused in the last minute as the first and that showed me he is mentally strong. What I have seen of him so far, Cameron has a great future ahead of him.”

At Future Global Sports we are excited by Cameron’s ability and impressed by the body of experience he already has at such a young age. With hard work, dedication and desire to improve we feel Cameron can be a player with the potential to climb up the ladder in the years to come.

We look forward to working with Cameron and feel that, together with our support, the sky is the limit. The hard work starts now.

Future is Fogerty!

NB: To learn more about Cameron’s journey you can read more here