OUR TEAM
Our team is made up of 4 founders - working in business, management, sport, HR and education. On top of this core team, there is a network of collaborators and partners experts in areas and sectors that are complementary and functional to athletes' career.
In 2020 we started working together to develop and offer a service helping athletes getting the most out of their career beyond sport and to overcoming the related challenges, including retirement.
SARA
SPADONI
LUCA
LORENZON
SIMONE
MASSERINI
SILVIO
FIERRO
FOUNDRESS
10 years of international experience among Qatar, France, Switzerland and UK, in PMO, HR, L&D, education and career consulting at UEFA, SDA Bocconi, Aspire & RCS Sport.
FOUNDER
8 years of experience in corporate finance, sports management, and education. Project manager at SDA Bocconi for FIFA, Qatar 2022, NBPA. Chartered accountant.
FOUNDER
Over 20 years as executive director of sports and entertainment events, including Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and UEFA Champions League. Lecturer for Bocconi and RCS Academy.
FOUNDER
Amost 20 years in finance and startups. 4 years as CFO and HR Director of Flixbus. Auditor and Chartered Accountant. 10 years as President of Bocconi Sport Team.
OUR NETWORK
We believe that a satisfactory career- in sport and beyond - requires a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, which looks after the athlete at 360°. This approach calls for the overall well-being, which touches the psychophysical, professional and financial sphere. Sharing knowledge, competences and information is at the basis of our method an it is the reason behind our network of collaborations and partnerships with professionals and organizations working for the well-being, education, growth and development of athletes and their careers.
Working with Opera means connecting with professionals and organizations with whom we collaborate and who are part of our network and access their knowledge and services.
Having a network allows us:
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on the one hand, to do research, share information, exchange ideas, develop practices and methods, inform and disseminate
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on the other, to offer athletes and organizations working with us a preferential access to the services of qualified professionals, organizations and companies that put athletes and people at the centre. At the same time, athletes and organizations working with our collaborators and partners benefit from benefits on Opera paths and services
FEDERICA TISATO
Mental Coaching (Sport Psychologists Team Italy)
15 years experience as a Mental Coach with Pro Athletes and Elite Clubs, Coaches and Managers. Member of the Italian Sport Psychologists association. Degree in Psychological Sciences and Pedagogy, Master in Mental Coaching and Human Performance. Training at CONI in Neuroscience Applied to Sport.
DANIELE CANINI
Research - Education
PhD student in physical sciences, with a research project on athletes' career. Specialized in Sport Management at Luiss. Coach and manager in Italian basketball for over 7 years.
GOLD SPORT
Sport Agency - Athlete management
Gold Sport is one of the leading volleyball agencies for players and coaches at international level. Gold Sport proposes a new approach and a new way of supporting and managing assisted athletes and coaches, making the most of their potential, while planning their future at the same time. Gold Sport represents and takes care of its players, both on and off the court, offering a service that goes beyond the traditional phases of negotiation and the deals research, considering athlete's life at 360°. This innovative approach, attentive to the person as well as the athlete, has led to the collaboration with Opera, which helps Gold Sport's athletes to understand which career paths and projects to pursue beyond the court.
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DAVID BERTI
Financial advice
As a Financial Advisor, he takes care of optimizing personal finance choices and managing capital, often athletes'ones, but he does so starting from financial education, which leads to informed and aware choices when it comes to managing one's own capital and investments. This approach, based on knowledge, sharing and learning - in addition to Davide's professionalism and organization - led to the collaboration with Opera.
OUR PRINCIPLES
From our research, from our work with athletes, from our values
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Every athlete is first of all a person
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Career is one unique path
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The career of athlete corresponds to the professional path, of those who exercise the athlete's profession, over a certain period of one's working life
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Focusing on something else beyond sports is NOT detrimental to sport performance, even improve it
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Being an athlete by profession is a opportunity not a limit
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Athletes are resources for the sport system, the work environment and the whole society
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The career of athletes is: unique, all-encompassing, unpredictable, temporary and often a taboo
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The career of athletes is characterized by three challenges: Personal (Difficulty in recognizing oneself in a role and in an identity other than that of an athlete), Professional (poor preparation for a job other than that of an athlete) and Financial (earnings uncertainty and discontinuity )
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Athletes have the right and the duty to choose a satisfactory path even at the personal, formative and professional level
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A socially and financially sustainable sport system is possible only if athletes, leagues, federations, clubs, agents and sponsors invest in skills and merit
OUR MISSION & VISION
Mission
Offer athletes guidance and support in starting and managing their career beyond sport, in a personalized, flexible, accessible way.
Vision
Contribute to improving sport and society as a whole by giving a voice to the person beyond the athlete and enhancing the athlete's profession beyond sport, at social, cultural and economic level.