 Welcome back to the channel. If you haven't yet, make sure you subscribe to stay up to date with all the latest content. And also, if you want to reach out to me and you want more help with your business, there's a number of ways we can help you. We do have a sports accelerator program, which we have coaches of all sports in there who are running really successful businesses. So if you want to learn more, reach out to me about our accelerator program. Or if you want to send me any questions, again, visit the description below, number of ways you can reach out to me by email, through WhatsApp. So don't stay stuck. Make sure you reach out to me. Okay, now today I want to talk about something quite interesting. And every single day I sit in my office and I spend about an hour to an hour and a half just doing some research on the youth sports industry and just the sports training industry in general. Okay, so something that I'm seeing a lot of now at the moment and something that is trending is a lot of MLS players. So if you aren't familiar with the MLS, the MLS is the professional branch of soccer in the United States. And this would be something good for you to research yourself on, but what I'm going to share with you today is an average on what I've found. But what I'm starting to see is a lot of MLS players. Now, I'm not talking about the superstars of the Messi's and those types of stars. I'm just talking about the average. Okay, and in the MLS there is a lot of average players. And because it's set up, ultimately the MLS is a business. Okay, and in within that business you have different teams, which are franchises. So what the MLS does is the MLS sets a salary cap or a budget on all of its franchises. Okay, so what I want to share with you today is a reason why there's going to be more MLS players. Now, again, I'm not talking about the top 10 most paid players in the MLS. I'm talking about the average, why a lot more MLS players are going to be moving into sports training and especially into the sports training industry because of a number of reasons. So if you look at my screen, I've done a little bit of research. Now, this is obviously an average. You can do your own research to verify this, but this is an average on what I've found. So in the MLS, salaries in MLS for non-designated players range between 36.5k to 387.5k. Okay, now the league minimum is 36.5 for players below the age of 25. If a player is old up then 25, the league minimum is 48.5k. Now, that is per year. Okay, that isn't per week, nor is it per month. That is per year. So these are the type of players which this video is talking about more and there's a lot of them in the MLS currently. So if you have a look, a lot of normal people who have normal day-to-day jobs are earning a lot more than some of these professional MLS athletes. Okay, so if you have a look below, I've made it on average, an MLS season is about 10 months, right, depending on how the franchise or the team advances, but on average, a season can last for about 10 months. Okay, so if you have a player that has a yearly or a seasonal salary of 48.5k, that means they are making 4.85k per calendar month within the 10 months. Right, now a lot of people will be looking at that and thinking, that's not a lot. And this is one of the reasons why there's going to be a lot more MLS professional footballers moving into sports training. Okay, now if you have a look, I've made a couple of bullet points on the top, right, and these are the couple of reasons why a lot of these average players in the MLS are moving into sports training. Right, the first one is obviously a salary cap, which means they aren't able to earn more because on every team in the MLS, only a certain amount of players can earn more than the salary cap. Okay, and if you have a look at the top 10 players in the MLS, all of them that are being paid in the millions are all foreign players. Right, so they're all either Argentinian, Italian, or players that have just been employed from abroad to play in the MLS. Okay, so that's one of the reasons, limited endorsement opportunities. So compared to other traditional American sports, okay, such as the NFL, the NBA, MLB, right, there's a lot of limited endorsement opportunities for average footballers in the MLS. Right, so that means they aren't able to make and generate more revenue because most of the endorsement is going to the superstars. Right, because essentially that's what these massive brands such as Adidas, Nike, or Nike, if you're in the US, right, that's what they look for. They look for these massive superstars that have a lot of influence to grow their brand. Okay, so if you are just an average Joe on a team, then the chances are you're not going to get any of those endorsement opportunities. Right, so that's why a lot of younger American footballers now are looking to go abroad. Right, are looking to even move to Europe or move to another league where there's not a salary cap and there's more opportunities of making more money rather than staying in the MLS whether you know that there's a salary cap and the only ones above that salary cap are usually players that come from abroad and are like these superstar in names. Okay, now the third one is obviously inflation. Right, so if you have a salary cap and you can't make more than that, then inflation will start to eat what you're making. Okay, listen, inflation, we all go through it. Right, it's not just the MLS players, business owners, normal people. Right, everyone is affected by inflation, but if you're making, if you're capital and you can't, you can't, you aren't, you aren't able to generate more revenue, then inflation will start to bite and eat your income every single month. Okay, because things are just going to get more expensive and the money you're making isn't in line with inflation. Okay, so those are the three reasons. Right, now if we go to the bottom, so if we have a look here, this is what this is the major reason why a lot of these average players are moving into sports training. Okay, so what I'm starting to see is that a lot of them, they do have a lot of influence on social media. Okay, they are very good at posting what they are, who they are. They do have a bit of an audience, a bit of a following. And what a lot of them are realizing is, right, if I can find a way to make more money, then I can use my influence to generate more revenue. So what a lot of them are doing now is they are opening sports training businesses. Okay, they're hiring someone to run it. Okay, and they're running monthly camps, monthly camps or clinics. But for this example, I'm just going to write, I'm just going to use camps. So some of them are hiring people, others are just running it themselves. But let's take an average MLS footballer, okay, who is earning 4.8k per month, right, he's 25 years old. Now, he's opened his own business on the side of doing his full-time thing. And what he's noticed is, right, he's got a lot of influence in his local community. A lot of them know that he's an MLS player. A lot of them know that he plays for a MLS franchise. So what he's realized is, right, if I can run at least one camp, okay, just one camp per month, I am able to generate more than what I'm getting paid to play football full-time. Okay, so if you have a look, right, if this coach runs one camp per month, right, and he gets 50 players to join that camp who pay 200 dollars, right, so that's 200 times 50, that coach has made 10k. Okay, now if you have a look, right, so playing football full-time, okay, so training every single day, looking after your body, you know, it's all a full-time thing. And he's running one camp per month that he's generating 10k. Look at the difference in revenue, right, the camp, he's had to work less, because it's literally once a month that he runs it. He might run it on a Saturday, he might run it on a Sunday, he might run it during a holiday, okay, but he's running one camp per month, he's charging 200 dollars. Now, I don't know what value he's adding in order to be able to charge that, but say he's charging 200 dollars to run that camp, parents are paying 200 dollars, he's getting 50 kids to show up, pay, attend, he's made 10k, which is double, or more than double, the amount that he's making, playing full-time professional football in the MLS, okay, so this was just a video to give you guys an insight into, right, if you are in the US and you're in soccer, this is something to take into account, because a lot of MLS average players are going to be moving into sports training for this simple reason, right, you can run an event with 50 players, charge 200 dollars for that event, okay, it can be an hour, it can be two hours, it could be a full day event, and you can make 10k out of that event, or you can play full-time football, right, and be earning less than 5k, okay, so something to give you guys, you know, keep your eyes wide open, this is something that is happening at the moment, it's more and more, especially as we go into these periods of where inflation is obviously getting, it's hurting a lot of footballers, right, this is something they're seeing, right, how can I generate extra revenue? Perfect, the way I can generate it is, right, can we run a Campbell Clinic every month, where it's not taking up a lot of my time, but the return on it is more than what I'm making, playing football, so it becomes a supplemental way of making money on top of playing football professionally, okay, so if you need more help with your business, reach out to me, okay, this is something I do every single day, this is something I do full-time, I help coaches with their business, I work with them, right, so reach out to me, description below, number of ways you can communicate with me, you can even book a free 15 to 20-minute call, we'll jump on Zoom, can ask you a couple of questions, see where you're at, see where you want to get to, or you can just send me questions to either my email or you can text me as well, okay, so thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next video.