Sabine Bellifa Vermeeren
Education, Welfare & Player Support
Education and welfare specialist focused on the academic, emotional and daily stability young players need to develop safely.
Experience that strengthens the network.
Education and player welfare advisor focused on supporting young athletes as people first, with academic continuity, family communication and daily wellbeing alongside football.
Core expertise
- Player welfare
- Education continuity
- International student support
- Family communication
- Life skills development
- Holistic safeguarding
What Sabine brings to NEXTGEN
- Keeps education and personal wellbeing inside the pathway rather than as an afterthought.
- Strengthens family communication and international player adaptation.
- Provides a welfare perspective when football decisions create pressure on young people.
- Helps NEXTGEN build a culture where development is measured on and off the pitch.
Education & homeschool programmes
Leads the academic side of athlete development within the family’s sports ecosystem in Málaga.
- Designs and oversees flexible homeschooling and remote education structures for international academy players.
- Coordinates education around demanding training schedules so sporting ambition does not erase academic continuity.
- Focuses on giving every player a viable long term future beyond football.
Player welfare & adaptation
Provides the human support that is often missing when young players relocate internationally.
- Supports players dealing with homesickness, culture shock and the emotional demands of residential development.
- Monitors day to day welfare, life skills and personal growth alongside sporting progress.
- Helps maintain communication and trust between players, families and the development environment.
Family centred development culture
Her role reinforces the principle that a young player should be treated as a person before being treated as a football asset.
- Creates a stable, supportive environment for players arriving from different countries and family situations.
- Adds a welfare counterbalance to performance, scouting and recruitment decisions.
Advisors provide expertise and introductions but do not have decision making authority. Unless appointed in writing to another role, they are not trustees, employees, football agents or representatives authorised to bind NEXTGEN.