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[SM Sports Consulting @SMSportsCons]

🚨 Press Release: 2025 Edition held in Gauteng becomes a success 🚨

We will have a special edition in August - focused on High Performance, Coaching, Leadership and Business in Women’s Football. More details to follow soon 💜⏳

#InspireBeyond #EvolvingWithTheGame

[SM Sports Consulting @SMSportsCons]

Today marks a month since we held the 2nd edition of the Football Performance Analysis & Technical Scouting Symposium in Parktown, Johannesburg.

🗣️ 8 Elite International Speakers
👨‍🎓 35 Delegates from 6 different countries
📆 2 days

#InspireBeyond #EvolvingWithTheGame

[Sinesipho Mali @SinesiphoMali]

Great weekend spent with great passionate group of Youth Coaches from the Rustenburg Youth League (RYL), under Rustenburg Local Football Association (RULFA), where I was giving a presentation on How to create a High Performance Culture in your environment, the National Playing Philosophy > Player Profile for the national teams & examples of High Performance at Grassroots level.

Total of 30 passionate coaches attended and thanks to RULFA/RUYL for the invitation, well done to the organisers. Our football needs more of such initiatives in order to improve and drive High Performance from Grassroots Level.

#InspireBeyond #EvolvingWithTheGame

[Sinesipho Mali @SinesiphoMali]

Rustenburg LFA 🤝 @SinesiphoMali

Today I’ll spend a day with grassroots coaches from Rustenburg Junior League, giving presentations on ‘How to create a High Performance Environment at Youth Level’ including sharing insight on ‘The South African Way - Strategic Plan’ which includes the Junior National Teams Game Model > Scouting Criteria > Technical Strategy.

Looking forward to the experience and meaningful interactions with the technicians here.

#InspireBeyond #GrassrootsFootball #HighPerformanceFootballWorkshop

[Shawn Bishop @shawn_r_bishop]

Excellent Operational Framework for Scouting Departments, integration of all aspects from Data, Video, Live Scouting..

[SM Sports Consulting @SMSportsCons]

📝 Scouting Department-Operational Framework 📝

• Strategic Foundation
• Scouting Process
• Bias Control System
• Evaluation Criteria
• Decision & Outputs
• Communication
• Data
• Quality Control
• KPI’s
• Player Pathway

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[SM Sports Consulting @SMSportsCons]

@CoachSifiso

[Sinesipho Mali @SinesiphoMali]

African Child, your dreams are Valid 🥹❤️

Exactly a week ago, @SMSportsCons held its 2nd Edition of the Football Performance Analysis and Technical Scouting Symposium Masterclass held in Sunnyside Park Hotel, Parktown.

After the postponement of a disappointing 2025 edition, this rescheduled event allowed us the flexibility with numbers without compromising the standard of our content delivery and overall organisation, maintaining International Standards in all aspects of the Symposium.

Putting together this program which had the SAFA Technical Director, Molefi Ntseki doing the opening, the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi doing the Official key Note Address amongst other great speakers such as the African Champion Coach, Raymond Mdaka, Head of Coaching Methodology in Belgium, Shawn Bishop, The FIFA High Performance Specialist, Faisal Chibsah, Mamelodi Sundowns Performance Analyst, Tinashe Mukhandatsama, Bafana Bafana’s Goalkeeper Coach, Grant Johnson, Banyana Banyana’s Captain, Andile Dlamini, Renowned Football Administrators such as Senzo Mbatha, Floyd Mbhele, Costa Bellos, just to name a few, our amazing MC, Mbali Sigidi and many more amazing delegates that joined us for this 2 intensive days of knowledge exchange.

We had delegates from Botswana Premier League, Mozambique National Team, Swaziland Premier League, Malawi Premier League and Zimbabwe Premier League also joining us live and others virtually, which shows the great demand and hunger for such initiatives in Africa, we proud to be able to touch the landscape so much.

All thanks to @SAFA_net for their support on this great initiative which aligns well with the vision of advancing knowledge of football specialisation in Africa. Also our partners from MANZI Water, who’ve kept us hydrated throughout the program, African Football Connect for being our official media partner, METRICA Sports & other key stakeholders who played a great role in making this possible.

To be able to keep this program running while we heavily rely on subscription of delegates is not sustainable and doesn’t give us the direct impact we’d like to have as those who deserve a seat in this masterclass often cannot afford, this is where we need support to maximise our impact of this important educational initiative.

I’m excited to announce that SM Sports will be hosting a special edition dedicated to Women’s Football in August 2026, where all areas of High Performance in Football will be fully covered from the Technical to Administration, Business of the Game, Marketing or Commercial aspects etc. & the 3rd edition of the Football High Performance Coaching & Talent Identification Symposium Masterclass, focused on grassroots development, will be held in Bloemfontein, Free State in October/November 2026 (Dates & Venues to be announced soon)

We are the difference that we want to see in this game. We will advance knowledge of High Performance in Africa, through such initiatives.

Aluta Continua. Ndiyabulela.

Best regards,
Sinesipho Mali

[Velile Mnyandu 🇿🇦 @Velile_Mnyandu]

🟣☠️✌️ With a combined direct contribution to 39 goals this season, coach @Coach_SM_ helps us to dissect the dangerous combination of #ReleMofokeng & #OswinAppollis at @orlandopirates.

They’ll be key in this #SowetoDerby

#TacticalFocus | #FarMoreForTheFans

Full 🎙️: https://t.co/kaMotmx18O

#HollywoodbetsxVelile | #HollywoodbetsOriginals | #AzisheKe | @SMSportsCons

[Advanced Football Academy @AdvFtbAcad]

This is how Ajax youth teams analyze games

[SM Sports Consulting @SMSportsCons]

🗣️ Neves Julio Pedro - Performance Analyst for Mozambique National Team

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[Velile Mnyandu 🇿🇦 @Velile_Mnyandu]

🟣 The season of growth for @BafanaBafana & @orlandopirates star attacker Rele Mofokeng. We had a sit-down with his dad, #SechabaMofokeng, at the @SMSportsCons Symposium this week.

🔸The big role his mom plays in his development.
🔸 Footballer of the Season talk
🔸 House Chores
🔸 Insights from the Symposium

Full 🎙️: https://t.co/U5NMODeiPF

#HollywoodbetsxVelile | #HollywoodbetsOriginals | #AzisheKe | @AFC_2025 | #SowetoDerby

[Connor Holden @ConnorHolden00]

Andoni Iraola ~ Wide Triangles

[MenzaGroupInternational @MenzaGroupInt]

https://t.co/7wQsd2rGWb

[Seth Moloi @MoloiSeth40918]

@SMSportsCons Thank you SM Sports Consulting for a wonderful football experience + sharing your world class knowledge with us. Much appreciated 👏

[SM Sports Consulting @SMSportsCons]

📸 | Highlights from the Symposium

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[Thato Matuka @thatomatuka]

We took Bafana to Bloem, now we bringing football expertise. We are empowering our youth football technocrats. 💚🤍

[SM Sports Consulting @SMSportsCons]

& we wrap-up the 2025 edition of the Football Performance Analysis and Technical Scouting Symposium Masterclass in Gauteng.

See you in Bloemfontein, Free State ⚪️🔴

#InspireBeyond #EvolvingWithTheGame

[Thato Matuka @thatomatuka]

Our LFA’s need our expertise. We fixing youth football in SA. I am a member in good standing - SAFA Bloemfontein LFA.

Well done Chana @SinesiphoMali and my brother @MaliwaThembela @SMSportsCons An empowering & necessary engagement for our technocrats in football.