Alberto Valentin Escolano has over 40 years of experience in football as a player, manager, and technical secretary. He played professionally for Barcelona and Figueres from 1973-1995, and then served as the sports director and general manager of Figueres from 1995-2002. From 2003-2008 he was the sports area coordinator for Espanyol, winning the Copa del Rey in 2005-2006. He was then the technical secretary and chief scout for Barcelona from 2010-2015, during which time the club won numerous trophies under Guardiola, Tito, and Enrique. Currently he is a professor teaching sports management and talent identification.

1. TRAYECTORIA
Personal Information:
Name: Alberto Valentin Escolano
Academic Background:
National Football Coach. Level III
Master Degree in Sports Entities Management (Kernaba)
Master Royal Spanish Football Federation. XIX CURSO SUPERIOR DE FORMACIÓN
DE DIRECTORES DEPORTIVOS
Experience:
As player:
1973-1985 FC Barcelona
1986-1995 U.E. Figueres (2ª A)
As Manager
1995-1999 Sports Director U.E.F 2nd Division B
2000-2002 General Manager U.E.F 2nd Division B
2001-02 The first 2B team semifinalist of history in Copa del Rey
2003-2008 Sports Area Coordinator RCD Espanyol. Spanish 1st Division
2005-06 Champion of Copa del Rey
2006-07 Europa League finalist ( Ernesto Valverde)
2008-2009 Project Director, Promoafrica (Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana,
Ivory Coast)
2010-2015 Technical Secretary (Chief Scout) , FC Barcelona
Champion of Spanish Liga 2010-2011 Pep Guardiola
2012-2013 Tito Vilanova
2014-2015 Luis Enrique
Champion of Copa del Rey 2011-2012 Pep Guardiola
2014-2015 Luis Enrique
Supercopa of Spain 2010
2011
2013
World Cup of Clubs 2011 Pep Guardiola
Champion’s League 2010-2011 Pep Guardiola
2014-2015 Luis Enrique
Supercopa de Europa 2011 Pep Guardiola
Players purchased in FCB during stage in FCB

2. Adriano, Mascherano, Afellay, Villa
Alexis, Cesc
Song, Jordi Alba
Neymar
Ter Stegen, Bravo, Rakitic, Mathieu, Luis Suarez,Vermaelen, Douglas
Players sold during the stage in FCB
Toure yaya, Ibrahimovic,
Oriol Romeu,
Thiago Alcantara, Villa
Fontás, Cesc, Alexis
Academic
Professor at the Coaches School of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (Escuela de
Entrenadores RFEF)
Monographic course at INEFC University “Sports Management in a professional
football team” (La Dirección Deportiva en un club de futbol profesional)
Professor in the Sports Management course of the Royal Spanish Football Federation
(Dirección Deportiva de la Real Federación Española de futbol). Contents: “The sports
manager as the person in charge of enforcing the entities’ sports policy” (currently)
As Speaker
Wyscout Forum . London “Talent Identification: Intuition or method”
Abhu Dhabi , Milan “FCB Sport Model”
Qatar “FCB Organization based in Knowledge