American Footy Star was created by former FIFA agent, Miro Gladovic, one of the leading former sports agents in the world of professional soccer. Miro was one of the the original pioneering FIFA agents in Australia back in 1998, and was instrumental in helping to carve out the soccer talent pathway from Australia to the big leagues of Europe, that today sees over 100 Australian players playing professionally abroad.
Miro has now refocused his energy to proliferate the sport of Footy in the U.S. and tap into the vast NCAA talent pool, and recruit a new wave of American athletes to crossover and go to Australia and play footy, and establish a new talent pathway between U.S. high schools and colleges and the Australian Football League and its 18 professional franchises.
To support the growth of the sport, Miro has put together a team of solid professionals. Miro and his team aim to increase U.S. branding & support for footy and the AFL by developing a new U.S. fan base and expanding synergies & crossover with U.S. pro leagues & teams by providing career opportunities for young U.S. talent in Australia. American Footy Star aims to be the scouting and recruitment vehicle for AFL teams looking to engage elite American athletes, by scouting and developing American footy players, and alleviating the enormous cost and logistics involved in scouring the enormous American sporting marketplace, looking for new American footy crossover candidates.
American Footy Star is working with an elite, dynamic group of hand picked American athletes, known as the Class of 2014. This inaugural group of ex-American NCAA and NFL football players have been working tireless to develop their footy skills, and showcase their incredible athleticism in their personal online video profiles, for the purpose of Australian AFL clubs and agents to access and review, with a view to inviting these exemplary AFS athletes to Australia for try outs.
American Footy Star is also chronicling this groundbreaking process of searching for the first footy stars from the US, and will be released as a dramatic docu-drama, giving audiences and fans in the US, Australia, and internationally, a unique look at how this whole process was conceived, and the unfolding of this historic new talent pathway and recruitment. Stay tuned for the release of these episodes.