About The Company:

SoccerTalker.com, a property of Kovo.com, LLC, a California Limited Liability Corporation, provides online and offline services that enable student athletes and coaches to create profiles upload media and openly share information.

Project Goals:

Client required a web application through which athletes can register themselves by showing interest in different colleges; Coach can recruit athletes based on their athlete ranking, skills and SoccerTalker staff to have the preliminary screening for newly joined athletes.

Project Description:

The project involved design and development of athlete recruiting web application. System includes ability for Athletes, Coaches and Staff to keep track of the upcoming games/events of their associated athletes. The application also provides the ability for Coach and Staff to run reports.

The main site features include:

• Athletes can create free profile, add events in the Game Schedule, add Images, add Videos, add News, choose College of Interest, Request for Evaluation form etc.
• Coach has all the privileges as an athlete as well as he can run reports for Athletes and Cross Math calendar.
• SoccerTalker Staff privileges include manage athletes, schools, System Reports; add events in the game Schedule etc.    

Solution:

Survik developed the application in PHP 5.2.9, with Joomla 1.5 and database as MySOL 5.0.32. The developed solution is the most effective tool for USA soccer recruiting that helps Athletes, Coaches and Soccertalker Staff. Once the athlete registers with the application, a staff will have the preliminary screening for the athlete profiles by giving ratings for the newly added profiles. Coaches can view the ratings and they would have the ability to add comments to the athletes.

Athletes also have the privilege to request for the evaluation form for their profile from soccertalker staff. Each form will be released once the required fees are paid and only three set of evaluation can be done through the process. Coaches can view this athlete evaluation form through the athlete profile page. Game Schedule is also another effective tool through which athlete can add his events as well as coach can add events and can view the events of their interested athletes; moreover, soccertalker staff can see all the events in the system.

The application provides different access privileges to athletes, coaches, soccertalker staff and administrator. SoccerTalker staff has privilege to Add/Activate/Deactivate Athletes and Colleges. Different privileges are provided to the Coaches and SoccerTalker Staff through which they can generate the various kinds of reports. System automatically updates the reports based on the access privileges.

Project Benefits:

Survik’s Solution facilitated most effective collegiate soccer recruiting and placement system in the USA which includes accurate and actionable Reports, Athlete Evaluation Form, Athlete Ratings, Cross matched game schedules etc. As a result of this soccer recruiting and placement website client has well established personnel relationship with more than 100 colleges.