The pandemic is forcing clubs to change habits and find new ways to recruit young talent. Without being able to conduct training sessions, River Plate, one of the main Argentine clubs, decided to innovate and ask players to introduce themselves via WhatsApp, thus reliving the times when players were hired by video cassettes. The rules are simple: a video of less than five minutes, first and last name, category and position.
As the mandatory preventive isolation to prevent the spread of Covid-19 does not allow the ten talent detection specialists from the Buenos Aires club to travel across the country to perform the tests, children will thus be able to show their qualities at a distance , in a kind of virtual capture.
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