Barcelona Recruit A Journalist to Be Talent Scout

DBasia.news – A football club could do many things to gain the positive impact. One of them is to raise the instinct, knowledge, and insight of the talent scout. Moreover, the club’s talent scout should be the parameter of the club’s success.

Based on their recommendation, the club spent money to invest in certain players. The failure or success will be seen in the player’s contribution. In FC Barcelona, the talent scout is very critical. They work under sporting director Eric Abidal.

Jerome Bigot

In a chance, Abidal was interviewed and got a long discussion with a French journalist in BeIn Sports named Jerome Bigot. Apparently, Abidal who also comes from French was impressed with the knowledge and instinct of Bigot regarding French football players.

With no further consideration, Abidal recruited Bigot to join Barca’s talent scout team. His job is to examine, suggest, and recommend the players that should perform in France competition. Moreover, Bigot also did the same thing for the players come from Italy, Switzerland, and Czech Republic.