Collective XI — Seychelles Football Federation

Who Is Asking

Licensed. Transparent. And small on purpose.

ONZE Sports is a boutique talent management firm. Caribbean roots planted in Dutch soil. Founded in 2026 by corporate attorney and FIFA agent Francisco de Miranda.

Most agencies sell their size. We sell our ability and experience with paying close attention. Our clients are a small curated roster of players, families, and football federations. We advise them along the full spectrum of their specific needs. We look at digital tools and factual data for solutions and opportunity. Human relationships remain key and we are with you all the way through.

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Non-negotiable

“The best interest of our client comes first in any deal. No exceptions.”

House rule since day one. It navigates every negotiation.

02 · The Opportunity Gap

Four gaps. One vehicle.

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01

Diaspora Scouting

37,000 Seychellois abroad, unmapped

Diaspora talent, unscouted and unconnected.

Today, diaspora players are found by sheer coincidence. Meaning a coach’s personal contact, or a chance email. Federations have no shared map of eligible talent abroad, no relationship with the academies developing them, and no structural way in with that network.

What Collective XI buildsA live eligibility register and academy partnerships across key diaspora corridors, so the next international is found on purpose and not by luck.

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FIFA Forward

Capture the full benefit

FIFA development money left on the table.

FIFA forward funding is not granted automatic. It has to be applied for, justified, accounted for with audited reports. Small federations are known to underclaim, not due to ineligibility but because they lack back office capacity to meet conditions and requirements.

What Collective XI buildsA shared compliance back office that writes applications, conducts the reporting, and files any acquittals across the entire bloc. Together, we can turn eligibility into a full and repeatable capture.

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03

Commercial Rights

From $29K to a premium bloc

No single federation can sell its commercial rights at scale.

A single small federation’s broadcasting and sponsorship’s rights are too small for any serious buyer to bother with. Buyers want scale and one single contract. Not twenty four small tiny negotiations.

What Collective XI buildsOne pooled rights vehicle across all Collective XI members. A single premium asset, negotiated for and sold once. At pricing no individual member could command alone.

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Voting Rights

Lack of leverage

One FIFA vote with no weight in the balance.

On paper, every federation’s vote matters just the same. In practice, smaller nations get isolated and foreclosed from what goes on behind the scene. They vote alone, negotiate alone, and get outmaneuvered by blocs that coordinate decisions.

What Collective XI buildsA standing outward facing coalition that turns individual votes into coordinated leverage, without requiring members to give up their freedom to choose.

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03 · The Corridor works

A true pipeline. But unmanaged. Under threat.

Diaspora players on the Seychelles squad already have homes at European clubs. But what feeds the national team today is by luck, not by design.

The wrinkle to be solved.

Countries’ dual citizenship restrictions.

For example, Seychelles has strict dual nationality rules. This turns putting a national team football jersey on a diaspora prospect into a multi-jurisdictional legal structuring problem. Immigration and sports issues that our Dutch lawyers specialize in.

Sources: FotMob squad data 2026; Seychelles Dept. of Immigration & Civil Status; DiasporaForDevelopment.eu country factsheet.

Estimated distribution of the Seychellois diaspora: UK & Australia dominate. Two of the deepest talent systems on earth.

04 · The model already in action

Curaçao did it
at 156,000.
You are smaller.

Curaçao rocked the 2026 World Cup with 25 of 26 players born in the Netherlands. The smallest nation ever to qualify. Diaspora, organized properly, beating nations five hundred times its size.

This isn’t just theory.

ONZE’s founder stands in the Dutch/Curaçao corridor.

Seychelles, at 130,000, is smaller still. With the same structure, you are not an underdog. You are the next proof. The flagbearer for every other small nation in Collective XI.

Sources: FIFA World Cup 2026 qualification (CONCACAF); ONZE agency positioning brief.

05 · The Money Already On The Table

You capture FIFA money well. Together capture more.

Seychelles has already translated FIFA Forward funding into real infrastructure. Pitches, a national stadium, and league operations. Over USD 1.7M into league roots alone.

Limitations, per FIFA’s own rules.

Up to $750K a year for projects. $500K more for operations.

Federations are not constrained by eligibility. It’s compliance and administrative capacity to capture and deploy this money, year after year. Exactly the gap a shared Collective XI back office closes.

Sources: FIFA Forward / COSAFA (inside.fifa.com); SIFF Forward overview; FIFA Annual Report 2022.

Known FIFA Forward inflows to Seychelles. Real money, well used — and a ceiling that pooling can raise.

06 · The Commercial Ceiling

Your whole league sold for $29K. The ceiling that pooling breaks.

In 2024, Absa Bank became title sponsor of the Absa Premier League. Roughly SCR 400,000 per year for the naming rights to a nation’s top football division.

This is not a criticism. Just proof of the problem. A single small federation’s rights are worth pennies alone. Bundled into Collective XI membership, those same rights become a premium asset that global buyers actually pay for. Seychelles is living proof of the ceiling that pooling is designed to break through.

Sources: Wikipedia (SFF); Grokipedia (Seychelles Premier League); SFF/Absa announcement, Sept 2024.

DRAG to see how pooled commercial value scales with each nation joining Collective XI. The $29K Absa deal is the real-world floor; larger figures are directional models for discussion.

07 · Collective XI

You can fire us. That’s the point.

Collective XI. A voluntary cooperative operated by member football nations. Seychelles is the catalyst. Members move the direction. ONZE magnifies.

The Dutch “Polder Model”

Applied to football: consensus building among equals. Small nations working and winning together.

08 · The Women’s Game

Catapult into the fastest-growing market.

Seychelles already operates women’s leagues and entered the FIFA Women’s World Ranking in 2022. The platform exists. Prepare now to ride the commercial wave that’s arriving.

$3bn

Women’s elite sport market by 2026

75%

Women’s clubs without a kit sponsor

A supply-side bottleneck, not a demand problem. Collective XI members move into this space together — and Seychelles already has the league to build on.

09 · If You Say Yes

The first 90 days, in writing.

01 · Days 1–30

Map the diaspora.

A named register of every eligible Seychellois player abroad. Starting with the UK, Australia, South Africa, Canada & France.

02 · Days 31–60

Eligibility, case by case.

Nationality and (dual) citizenship status analysis with counsel, player by player. No shortcuts.

03 · Days 61–90

The Forward file.

Assessment and support to scan FIFA Forward capture toward the $750K + $500K annual ceilings.

04 · Day 90

Founding Constitution for Collective XI on the table.

Charter highlights: member-owned, voluntary.

Ninety days costs you nothing but communication and meetings. Every deliverable is yours to keep, whether or not you proceed.

The Seychelles Football Federation

The same mission as always.

The vision amplified and geared towards leadership.

⚑ Seychelles × ONZE

Be the nation that proves it.

You’ve hosted major FIFA events. You have 37,000 of your people in football’s heartlands. You have the ambition. Collective XI is your vehicle. Not just a member. The founding father. Proving a model and recruiting the next ten members.

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African roots and the Indian-Ocean. ONZE: Ours | Di Nos | Fu Wi | Pou Nou.

Appendix — Sources & Figures

Every number, defensible.

Pop.

~130,000 residents; ~37.4% (36,788) live abroad — Vatican M&R Section; IOM Country Profile 2024; Grokipedia.

Host

Smallest nation ever to host a FIFA tournament; Beach Soccer World Cup, Victoria, 1–11 May 2025 — FIFA.com; Wikipedia.

Rank

#204 FIFA ranking; 0 points / 10 matches in 2026 WCQ — FotMob; FIFARanking.net; Wikipedia.

Squad

Diaspora-based players at European clubs in current squad — FotMob squad data, 2026.

FIFA$

USD 1.7M league roots; $580K La Retraite; $564K Stad Linité; $676K beach-WC turf — inside.fifa.com.

Forward

Up to $750K/yr projects + $500K/yr operations per MA — SIFF; FIFA Annual Report 2022.

Absa

~SCR 400,000/yr (~USD 29K) league title sponsorship, 2024 — Wikipedia; Grokipedia.

Women

Organised women’s leagues; entered FIFA Women’s Ranking 2022 — Wikipedia (SFF).

Illustrative pooled-rights figures are directional models for discussion, anchored on the real Absa floor; they are not projections. Diaspora destination split is an estimate synthesised from IOM/Vatican destination rankings. All primary facts are individually sourced above and defensible in the room.

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Ignored islandersdon’t have toplay small.

Licensed. Transparent. And small on purpose.

Four gaps. One vehicle.

A true pipeline. But unmanaged. Under threat.

Curaçao did itat 156,000.You are smaller.

You capture FIFA money well. Together capture more.

Your whole league sold for $29K. The ceiling that pooling breaks.

You can fire us. That’s the point.

Catapult into the fastest-growing market.

The first 90 days, in writing.

The same mission as always.

Be the nation that proves it.

Every number, defensible.

Curaçao did it
at 156,000.
You are smaller.