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Allsportrating
VP Joe Francis Interview
Free
website promotes
young players.
VP Joe Francis explains to Joe Kazmar at the County Record
Newspaper how
AllSportsRating.com can help get prep athletes noticed. RECORD PHOTO: Chris Gunn
Local male
and female athletes
now have a way to search out that next level of
competition they are seeking by having their own worldwide website that
can be designed right here in Orange, Texas. And the best news about
this new website is that the service is FREE!!!
This
premium free feature-rich profile
website will enable a male or female
athlete to showcase their personal photo, personal information,
statistics and offers a personal messaging system, personal photo
gallery, three five-minute videos, a personal resume page, personal URL
and printable trading cards.
This sounds almost too good to be true, but it’s for real thanks to
local entrepreneur Joe Francis and his partner, international attorney
Aime Pelatan, who resides in a Mediterranean village in southern France.
These two gentlemen met at a Lamar basketball game of all places about
six years ago. The conversation topic swung to high school athletes who
don’t get a chance to play at the next level even though they may have
attained that talent level as they grew older and more mature.
Pelatan, who is considered a mathematics genius, said he had visited
with professional coaches and agents in various sports who agreed that
a rating system was needed to find athletes without having to travel
all over the country to scout all of them.
After years of study, calculation, testing, consultation with coaches
and continual refinement Pelatan devised a formula to rate and rank
team athletes and tested it in Europe.
His formula opens up so many more opportunities for the unknown
athletes who want to be known and also gives college recruiters and
coaches a good idea of the level of play at which these athletes are
likely to be successful.
His formula seemed to work well there so he wanted to bring it to the
United States. Francis said he was very eager to assist him and the two
men spent nearly six years developing the program into a website that
was marketable.
Francis, who owned several Bargain Carpet Warehouse stores in Southeast
Texas including one near the old traffic circle in Orange, sold his
businesses 12 years ago. “I couldn’t stand not doing anything after
being on the go most of my life” Francis confessed. “Getting involved
with Aime was just what I needed.”
Pelatan and Francis formed AllSportRating
(ASR) that provides a search tool with a database of athletes from all
over the world. ASR represents 35 sports including cheerleading, band,
rodeo, field hockey and wheelchair-bound athletes.
This search tool allows coaches, teams and schools to search
geographically by sport, position, weight, height, speed, arm strength,
birth date, statistics, awards, and even SAT and ACT scores that have
to be verified and checked out.
ASR provides the male or female athlete with a peer rating that ranges
from one to five stars and depends not only on the personal statistics,
but also is influenced directly by peer ratings. This further
solidifies recognition of their abilities and performance.
This new service will help athletes increase their awareness of key
people in the sports industry by providing athletes with their own free
feature-rich website.
This website is a great way for athletes to promote themselves and
network with other athletes in different parts of the country or even
in foreign countries to share common goals or monitor training
techniques.
ASR also provides teams and schools with their own free website to
manage their team and showcase all their athletes. Teams can do
fundraisers and run events through their website because ASR has
created fundraising/sponsor packages to help the teams, athletes and
sponsors.
Southeast Texas area businesses interested in showing your support by
helping fund athletic, band, cheerleading and other programs at your
local school or club to give local athletes a better opportunity to
earn a college scholarship can do so while advertising your business in
your community by being an ASR sponsor.
Your ads will appear on every athlete you sponsor as well as their team
profile. In addition to all the other exposure, your logo and link will
also appear on the Sponsor/Partner page on the front of the AllSportRating homepage.
Those businesses interested in becoming sponsors and having your own
website can read about the Sponsor pack at http://AllSportRating.com
and click on Sponsor.
ASR already has the fastest-growing database of athletes in the world
despite being in its infancy stages. And it all can be attributed as
the brainchild of Aime Pelatan and Orange’s own Joe Francis.
Anyone wanting more information about AllSportRating
can
contact Joe D. Francis, vice-president, at (409)-883-8807 (office) or
(409)-988-1816.
Free
Athlete Rating Registration
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