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Online network giving discarded players a second chance

Related Topics: Luís Figo, Association football

Fieldoo, a website set up by Slovenian Klemen Hosta, sets out to give unattached players the opportunity to land trials at clubs across the globe.

"If I say my name is Klemen Hosta, no doors get opened. Luis Figo can enter anywhere." But Hosta, founder and CEO of Fieldoo, the world's largest online soccer network, is a man worth listening to.

The Slovenian, who five years ago was working for a telecommunications company in Ljubljana, is responsible for helping disenfranchised footballers across the world land contracts with professional clubs. Starting out by uploading videos of his friends to Youtube, often as many as 50 a day, Hosta spotted a gap in a saturated market.