I said no five times. Here is what I learned, with the receipts.
A 30-page guide for American players who want a professional trial and keep being told to find an agent.
A player who signed usually knows one door, which is his own. I knocked on all of them and kept every email and message. This guide shows which doors opened, what each one cost and what was behind it.
Trials and training in the file
Plus five one-page tools to use the next day:
I played Division I college soccer, spent five years trying to sign a professional contract, and never signed one.
Today I’m a sports and entertainment lawyer. Before writing this I went back through every email and message from those years and checked my memory against the record. Where the two disagreed, the record won.
Nine sections, five tools and the receipts.
No guide can. It shows which doors are real, what they cost and what to say, so you stop waiting on an agent.
No. I show how I found him and what I wrote, which is how you will find yours.
Yes. The Germany section covers how trial training works, the signing windows and the paperwork.
One player’s experience from 2015 to 2020, checked against the rules as they stood in October 2026. Not legal advice, and I am not acting as an agent.