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TT Pro League to empower clubs with Business of Professional Football seminar.
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In its effort to become a more viable and self sustainable league, the TT Pro League has recruited United States based sports management company, Playbook Management International (PMI), for a two-day seminar on the Business of Professional Football.

PMI Managing Partner and former FC Dallas Managing Director Michael Hitchcock will head the seminar, geared at improving the business side of Pro League clubs, on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 April at the Siparia Room of the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

The seminar will include a combination of presentations and workshops: Profitable Business Management, Community Relations, New Media, Revenue Generation, Player Marketing, Successful Ticket Sales, Game Day Experience, Marketing and Public Relations, and Sponsorship and Sales Programs and Activation.

League CEO Dexter Skeene elucidated, “The league us at the stage in its cycle where strategically it is necessary to focus on the business side of football; aspects off the field which adds to the value and the profitability of the clubs and the league.

“We have an experienced practitioner in Michael Hitchcock, who will provide the insight and experience to the owners and persons who are involved in the managing of our professional football clubs. It provides a forum where the owners can take full advantage of up to date professional football management systems and marketing methods which will assist to put the league on a firm and viable footing going into 2014 and beyond.”

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Good move Skeene and company. Any li'l positive is a blessing. I think the lecture is very very timely and will make a big impact as this is here we have one of our biggest weaknesses. Hope attendance is maximized.  :applause:  :beermug:
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Good move Skeene, however, two-day seminars cant do anything much for us.

We need a blue book and we need to stick to it.

We need to draw up a long term plan and expand in the marketing department.

We need to also allow the league the option to sign franchise players like what they are doing in the CPL. Off course we cant get big name players but I am sure we could get a few elder famous names to run out.

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Skeene wants to empower the teams but what is his 10-15 year plan for the league?

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Hitchcock: Incredible opportunity for professional football in T&T.
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Former FC Dallas President Michael Hitchcock believes that there is an “incredible opportunity for professional football in Trinidad and Tobago.”

Hitchcock, Managing Partner of Playbook Management International (PMI), is currently in Trinidad for a two-day (Thursday 4 and Friday 5 April) Business of Professional Football seminar, hosted by the TT Pro League and funded by the Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Port of Spain.

The TT Pro League Business Seminar – Road Map to Sustainability 2013 and Beyond is geared at improving the business side of clubs in becoming sustainable, and it is attended by club owners, managers and officials of the TT Pro League and representatives of the National Super League.

The seminar includes a combination of presentations and workshops: Profitable Business Management, Community Relations, New Media, Revenue Generation, Player Marketing, Successful Ticket Sales, Game Day Experience, Marketing and Public Relations, and Sponsorship and Sales Programs and Activation.

“We have with us, one of the most experienced groups in professional football, PMI, which is Playbook Management International and brings over 75 years of professional management experience in our hand selected clients,” said TT Pro League CEO Dexter Skeene during the seminar opening.

PMI boasts over 75 years of professional sports management with its Executives having served in the role of President for two Major League Soccer clubs, President of two North American Soccer League clubs & one Women’s Professional Soccer league club plus Vice President of five MLS clubs, in addition to working with over 50 sports teams, leagues, events, venues & sports consumer products.

PMI helps clients build a comprehensive & strategic business plan, called the Playbook, which provides a vision, mission and corresponding plan—road map to success—to maximize revenue and run a sustainable business operation.

As the League looks towards the future, Skeene recognized current and former club owners Jack Warner, Jamaal Shabazz, Darryl Mahabir, David John Williams and Jerry Hospidales as “the guys with the vision to understand that it would take years to develop something that is worthwhile and they put their monies where their mouth is.

“And they started this venture that has developed into the TT Pro League at present. We want to recognize these guys and say thank you for understanding what it takes to build and develop a sport industry which is so critical for the diversity of Trinidad and Tobago because sport and entertainment is the largest industry in the world and still growing.

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mentioned in Soccer Business Insider:

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PMI HITS T&T. Michael Hitchcock, Managing Partner of Playbook Management International, is in Trinidad to give a business seminar to executives of Trinidad & Tobago's TT Pro League.

The Business of Professional Football seminar includes a combination of presentations and workshops around the theme of making pro soccer sustainable in Trinidad & Tobago.

"Every league is different," Hitchcock, the former FC Dallas president, told the attendees. "Every team is different, but there is a way to create a model for sustainability.”

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Any news on this ?

I hope Skeene take this serious and not sit on his ass for too long.

I had friends who dealt with Michael Hitchcock in the past and he is a very good business man and what makes him good is, he has a passion for the game.

He will definitely bring great ideas to help improve the league.

SPORTT and the Ministry of Sports need to really step up their game.

Skeene, time to get off your ass.


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Is Skeene and Romany we dealing with, them does move in slow motion.

No wonder they get no support because who de f00ck go just take out money and give a bunch of men who limited and cannot bring nothing to the table.

Sponsors will come but the the league have to show they worth something, not just sit down in they ass and hold seminars and expect everything to just work out for them.

Hitchcock giving them good ideas but they have to listen and put it in action.

Anil go only shake he head and bawl yea for everything and nothing will get done.

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