Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF) and LaLiga Business School are calling on sports enthusiasts to join the sports industry through enrolling in their course MBA in Sports and Entertainment.
The nine-month programme will start in February 2022. Classes will be held from Sundays to Thursdays on campus and through webinars.
Mohammed Khalifa Al Suwaidi, AZF CEO, said: “Aspire Zone Foundation is recognised throughout the world as a pioneer in sports innovation and performance. As a global leader, we partnered with the most esteemed organisations in the world to help us achieve our goals. Hence, comes our partnership with LaLiga, the Spanish professional league.”
He added: “The strategic partnership between LaLiga and Aspire Zone laid out the foundations to collaborate in various areas, the most notable of which was a commitment to developing young talent and fostering teamwork while sharing knowledge and experience across various fields of sport, sports science, and innovation programmes.”
LaLiga Business School is the education department of LaLiga.
LaLiga President, Javier Tebas, said: “LaLiga is firmly committed to education. By means of a qualified academic education, their sports professionals may achieve a better management of football clubs and institutions.
“The 'LaLiga Business School' is the reflection of the educational project that our institution has created and promoted in order to detect, recruit and train both present and future talent within football management, methodology and analysis areas.”
Tebas said the Spanish football league was the best in the world, and "therefore it is, extremely important that sports entities that take part in our official competitions, as well as in other sports, are able to provide their respective football clubs and institutions with management excellence by means of qualified and trained professionals.” The course has 28 academic staff including Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy Communications Executive Director, Fatima Al Naemi, and Marketing Executive Director, Michail Kaloeidas.
MBA in Sports and Entertainment has a 9-week programme which includes management in the sports industry; marketing and content which comes in two parts; digital and technological disruption which also has two parts; media and entertainment; major sports events; educational trips; and innovation and entrepreneurship.
Part of the course includes educations trips to London and Madrid for five days each.
For those interested, required documents are an updated CV, two photocopies of the university degree, and academic certification. One can visit www.business-school.laliga.com or e-mail [email protected] for the application process.
