Whatever number you’re wearing on your shirt, you are number one for us!
Everything we do, we revolve around you as an individual and top athlete – with all your facets, potential, strengths and weaknesses. We are there for you. You’re family. Our services and consultations that we offer in partnership with MJ Consulting GmbH are just as familiar and empathic:
Career planning
Strategic career planning during your active career
It’s a given that you’ll have to be at the top of your fitness game. But that alone doesn’t make for a successful career. We’re here to strategically and sustainably plan your career. We start off with an individual consulting. But we do not just end with a smart transfer and contract management. You are the pro on the pitch, we are the pros for everything else.
Strategic planning for the time after your active career
Right now, your career is everything to you. But what happens when it’s over? That’s not something you can focus on at the moment? That’s okay because we do. With sustainable planning, consistent wealth accumulation and individual security, we help you keep your head in the game.
Strategic planning in case of no professional career
We do our very best for you to make it as a professional player. However, if it doesn’t work as planned, we’re always there for you. With our large network throughout various branches, through coachings and our know-how in personal growth, we are positive to find an ideal alternative for you.
Developing individual potential
Every person is unique. That’s why we don’t go around forcing the same approach on everybody. We support you in your individual strengths. What are you good at, what is helpful for your career? Where is potential still to be released and utilised? You’ll be surprised how much there is to be discovered.
Close exchange with the parents
We see ourselves as a family company. That’s why we find it’s important to involve your parents in your career. They are part of the team that supports you. For them as well there will be changes once you become successful. As you see, the pro business is a family business. At least with us it is.
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Wojciech Pollok
Player advisor
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340 games, 1st league to 3rd league
Wojciech Pollok is CEO and coach at passion4players. From his time as a U23 player at BVB, the now 38 year old knows exactly what young players experience and what they need. Therefore he has a great relationship to both the young players and the entire league. During his active player career, he has learned about different facets of football and the transfer market. For many years now, Pollok has been incorporating his large network that came from it as well as his experience into his coaching. In his role as a DFB licensed players’ agent, he strives for building and accompanying sustainable careers. His success is built on transparency and trust.
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Axel Sundermann
Player advisor
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339 games, 1st and 2nd Bundesliga
In 339 Bundesliga games, Axel Sundermann played for VfL Bochum, SC Freiburg and Hannover 96. He won the DFB Cup with Hannover 96 in 1992. Since 2004, Sundermann works in talent scouting and as a pro football coach. Professionals and young players benefit from his large network and his sustainable coaching that are based on his versatile experience in players’ agency.
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Athletic Development
Talent scouting
Unsere jahrlange Erfahrung mit jungen Talenten und unser geschulter Blick für erfolgversprechende Karrieren sind die Basis für unser Talent-Scouting. Was uns aber so einzigartig macht, ist unsere 360° Betreuung. So garantieren wir, dass es nach dem Scouting auch erfolgreich weitergeht.
Sportliche Betreuung und Entwicklung
Your body is your asset. We make sure to coach you in your physical fitness in the best way. This entails a wide range of resources to make for your top performance: nutrition, performance tests, mental coaching and much more. As you see, we take “360°” seriously.
Our team is at your side
Wojciech Pollok
Player advisor
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340 games, 1st league to 3rd league
Wojciech Pollok is CEO and coach at passion4players. From his time as a U23 player at BVB, the now 38 year old knows exactly what young players experience and what they need. Therefore he has a great relationship to both the young players and the entire league. During his active player career, he has learned about different facets of football and the transfer market. For many years now, Pollok has been incorporating his large network that came from it as well as his experience into his coaching. In his role as a DFB licensed players’ agent, he strives for building and accompanying sustainable careers. His success is built on transparency and trust.
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Axel Sundermann
Player advisor
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339 games, 1st and 2nd Bundesliga
In 339 Bundesliga games, Axel Sundermann played for VfL Bochum, SC Freiburg and Hannover 96. He won the DFB Cup with Hannover 96 in 1992. Since 2004, Sundermann works in talent scouting and as a pro football coach. Professionals and young players benefit from his large network and his sustainable coaching that are based on his versatile experience in players’ agency.
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Communications & Coaching
Communications Coaching and Media Training
Handling journalists and the media is becoming more and more important for athletes. There is much more to it than just sending out some Instagram posts. We will coach you right at the beginning of your career on how to interact with the press in an intelligent manner. It’s not just fun, but it’ll also save you from trouble and stress in the course of your career. Communicating successfully makes it easier to deal with the media and journalists. Laying the groundwork in the beginning spares you stressful times for the rest of your life.
Integral mental and top performance coaching
passion4players offers a large network and different disciplines. Mentors, coaches and professionals will give you insights, present opportunities and support you with guidance and resources.
Not just your medical records and how you feel physically play into our coachings. Your thoughts on school, education, your family and friends, your culture, social media and of course your club are all to be put into consideration. We take account of all the different parts of your life that are all intertwined. It’s about your life as a whole – not just one piece of it.
Not just your medical records and how you feel physically play into our coachings. Your thoughts on school, education, your family and friends, your culture, social media and of course your club are all to be put into consideration. We take account of all the different parts of your life that are all intertwined. It’s about your life as a whole – not just one piece of it.
Emotional coaching
Feel better, play better: the importance of emotional coaching.
Your values, self-confidence, self-esteem, motivation, personal visions and goals have a huge impact on your life as a football player. Stress factors like setbacks, crisis, injuries, media, disappointments, relinquishments, competition, internal and external limitations and emotional blocks come with the territory.
Therefore, the feeling of safety and emotional support through friends, family and a good network are vital. A continuous mental coaching supports you in building resilience and staying healthy, both physically and emotionally.
Keeping that in mind, it is important not to make your happiness depend entirely on the success of your sport career. Imagine not being able to play one day: Being able to create an alternative vision, an alternative perspective and maybe even a new life purpose is crucial.
Anka Zips works as an integral coach and wingwave trainer. Wingwave is a method used for high-performance sport coaching method. It is effective quickly and profound in its impact. The German Sport University Cologne has been studying this method and validated its short-term intervention. Accordingly, the wingwave method increases positive emotions, works through negative emotions, has a de-stressing effect and increases muscle strength.
Your values, self-confidence, self-esteem, motivation, personal visions and goals have a huge impact on your life as a football player. Stress factors like setbacks, crisis, injuries, media, disappointments, relinquishments, competition, internal and external limitations and emotional blocks come with the territory.
Therefore, the feeling of safety and emotional support through friends, family and a good network are vital. A continuous mental coaching supports you in building resilience and staying healthy, both physically and emotionally.
Keeping that in mind, it is important not to make your happiness depend entirely on the success of your sport career. Imagine not being able to play one day: Being able to create an alternative vision, an alternative perspective and maybe even a new life purpose is crucial.
Anka Zips works as an integral coach and wingwave trainer. Wingwave is a method used for high-performance sport coaching method. It is effective quickly and profound in its impact. The German Sport University Cologne has been studying this method and validated its short-term intervention. Accordingly, the wingwave method increases positive emotions, works through negative emotions, has a de-stressing effect and increases muscle strength.
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Dr. Thomas Guntermann
Communication expert
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Thomas Guntermann and his partner agent Jürgen Zilla are good friends with Marcell Jansen. They were head of communications when his player career ended and have been communicating his projects as young entrepreneur and member of HSV Hamburg. As Max Kruse found himself in a difficult situation right in the public eye, Guntermann and Zilla helped him out of the line of fire and developed strategies for his communication channels. Thomas Guntermann is an experienced communications consultant and consults corporations, entrepreneurs and personalities in the strategic positioning of their communications.
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Legal affairs and finances
Business consulting
When the corporation “Football” comes to an end, many players become businessmen themselves. We will support you in making the right connections and decisions. You’d like to have us as your partner? That’s the spirit!
Tax and financial consulting incl. pension plan
As a Football player you can make good money fast. But you can just as easily lose it all. Our experts will consult you in your tax and financial concerns as well as your pension plan.
Legal consulting and insurance cover
In order to be successful, there is no way around reading the fine print. Don’t worry, we will do that for you. We will make sure everything that is important for your career is taken into account, take a good look at every contract and make the right connections to new clubs.
Risk management and insurance cover
We hope you won’t suffer any injuries. But there is no guarantee for that. What we can guarantee is that you will be provided with comprehensive protection that covers all potential risks.
Sponsoring and advertising contracts
Good athletes get good deals. With us as your management, you will get great deals. We will do all the negotiations for new contracts, sponsoring and advertising agreements for you. “Good” is not good enough – so we will always be striving for more.