{"id":77,"date":"2026-06-04T13:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.awaikenthemes.com\/aigent\/?p=77"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:06:14","slug":"experiencia-internacional-no-futebol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/experiencia-internacional-no-futebol\/","title":{"rendered":"What different countries have taught me about football, career, and opportunities."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Football has taken me to different countries and placed me in very different environments throughout my career. First as an athlete and then working in other areas of the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you move to a different country, you quickly realize that while football may have the same rules on the pitch, almost everything around it changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The way people communicate, how clubs are organized, how athletes are received, how professionals build relationships, and even the meaning of an opportunity can all be different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Living through these experiences also changed the way I came to view a career in sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experiencing different realities in football has taught me that an opportunity never exists in isolation. The environment in which it arises is also part of the career.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leaving your comfort zone changes the way you see football.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An international experience demands much more than just adapting to the sporting environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#039;s a new language, a different culture, people you don&#039;t yet know, and a routine that needs to be rebuilt. At the same time, it&#039;s precisely this process that allows you to observe other ways of working and relating to the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout these experiences, some things have started to make even more sense to me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Adaptation:<\/strong> Understand the environment before trying to replicate what worked elsewhere.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Communication:<\/strong> Knowing how to express oneself and understand different contexts opens doors both on and off the field.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Relationships:<\/strong> Many opportunities arise from the connections built along the way.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Preparation:<\/strong> Arriving in another country is just the beginning; being prepared for that experience is another matter entirely.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Perspective:<\/strong> Learning about other realities helps to see possibilities that weren&#039;t even part of the plans before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also learned that international experience shouldn&#039;t be measured solely by the number of countries listed on a resume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What matters most is what each experience adds to the experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some teach about football. Others, about people. Some show structures that work well. Others make it very clear what still needs to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And they all end up influencing the decisions that come later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, when I work with athletes and organizations, part of how I analyze a career or a project comes precisely from this repertoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not because there is an international model that can simply be taken from one country to another, but because knowing different contexts helps to ask better questions about each reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Football has taken me to different places. And each one of them has changed, a little bit, the way I understand football itself.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O futebol me levou para diferentes pa\u00edses e me colocou em ambientes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[17,33,32],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elena-pelo-mundo","tag-carreira-esportiva","tag-experiencia-internacional","tag-futebol-internacional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aelenamueller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}