⚽︎ How to Open a Successful Soccer School in Dubai with Saci Ouhib! 🇦🇪

[Music] yeah just just the just the question in in terms of Dubai how how was your experience setting up there because there there's a coach that I have spoken to um and he kind of he was he was struggling a little bit in Dubai at the beginning I think it was mainly his problem was because it's a very kind of should we say touristy spot and in the summer pretty much there's no one around so he he was struggling to run like an all year round program because M basically his clients when he got to the summer they were leaving because he he had a massive expact community of of clients true true so with with Dubai obviously uh like you said the weather is a massive Factor uh to set up the business so the weather is nice uh let's say from from end of October up to early May um so in these months let's say the weather is like I would say the summer in uh the us where the temperature is just acceptable you can play outside there's no problem the level of humidity is quite high but it's it's fine no problems but from let's say may up to October the weather is really really hot and it's very very difficult to run any sessions Outdoors except in the night let's say after after uh 700 p.m. 8:00 p.m. where the humidity is high but the weather is a little bit difficult so what we used to do in Dubai we used to follow up the calendar of the school so we set up three ter terms September December January March and then April uh let's say end of May early June and then we go indoors to run the summer camps um now the summer camps the programs are different some of them are very specific let's say basketball football or whatever but me and the company when I used to work we used to do multiports activities uh the thing which is good with Dubai over the summer is there is no problems with the facilities there's plenty of facilities simply because the schools uh all the schools they do have their own facilities they have their own indoor facilities some of them they have two or three different uh Sports Halls where at the same time you can find like two three companies working at the same time at the same school because they have enough facilities uh true the XA Community is is is very very important but usually people they travel for two to three weeks so when you set up a camp you do have uh let's say the average of 60 70 up to 150 kids weekly uh coming in and out because the registrations in the camps they we we used to do them like weekly registrations every Sunday you can you can uh renew your registration in the camp so with football Outdoors end of May that's it it'll be it'll be very very difficult to run any sessions Out outdoors um the the market is is growing very fastly to the point where my last year in the March 2020 we approached let's say a stagnation if you know what I mean we've approached the point where to grow a business is quite hard because people what they do they go work in companies they understand the market up they go and run their own business because it's very easy to set up a business in the by there is no uh taxation uh the government are very supportive to help people uh start businesses and invest their uh uh their money uh and also the schools are like private companies so they do need to run their facilities to to generate money so then they can look after their facilities uh so there is no issues you just need to approach the school they let you know when they are free and available and then once you negotiate the the price either hourly price or termly Price or yearly price and then that's it you can start working uh the day after uh in terms of Staff also there is plenty of people especially who comes from the UK like young people who get their uh new badges let's say fa level one fa level two they just moved to Dubai as PE teachers and at the same time part-time uh uh football coaches yeah um when I started the in by we used to have like four or five soccer schools we used to have Manchester United soccer school Arsenal soccer school Esports and I used to work for International Football Academy which used to be sponsored by Barclays the bank um I used to share the office with Teddy sheringham if you know the ex man united upfront Striker uh and then in 2012 I felt like I need a challenge I need to move on so I moved to another city where football wasn't very very popular and I've started my business in there I've started the first session with eight kids and I've sold it out with 540 kids with 49 different nationalities um and then I had I had to go back home after covid because the business was quite slow in Dubai and my family also uh starts to grow and because of you know family issues the the the school for my kids and my wife's work I had to go back home to to settle for a bit before now like I said I'm I'm looking to start a new new challenge so if you need anything with informations about setting up a business in Dubai or or helping the coaches in there or whatever anything with with regards of of Dubai and soccer please let me know anytime I can help you or any person who's in there I can link them into acmis I can find them like parttime hours I can help them with the business links if they want to set up as let's say as an investor or as a normal as a normal worker there is no issues at all it would be a pleasure