1) Adam Giles, the manager of an Australian soccer competition, has been accepted to a prestigious 9-month sports management course in Europe called the FIFA Master. 2) The course will provide Giles with qualifications to become a senior manager in international sport organizations. 3) Giles' ultimate goal is for Australia to win a soccer World Cup, and he hopes the skills and knowledge gained from the course will help him work towards making that a reality.

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Giles wants to be
master in sport
ANDREW PRIESTLEY
‘ ’
Tourism at the University of
‘I believe that one day Canberra.
Australia can win a World
WHEN you ask Adam Giles what Giles, 24, was one of 30 people
his number-one goal is, he is Cup . . . and I’ll fight and chosen worldwide from 500 appli-
emphatic. work as hard as I can to cants for the course.
‘‘I believe that one day Aust-
ralia can win a World Cup . . . and
make that a reality He hoped the knowledge he’d
– ADAM GILES glean, combined with hard work,
I’ll fight and work as hard as I can
would take him to the top of
to make that a reality,’’ he said.
international sport.
The Eastern Suburbs Football
Association competition’s man- management. ‘‘In the long term, if I’m think-
ager will be heading to Europe for ing and dreaming big, I’d love to
The full-time course, beginning
an intense management training run FIFA one day, sit on the IOC,’’
in September, will take nine
course, which he hopes will give he said.
months to complete and will give
him the skills as a sports manager
him the qualifications to be a His big objective, though, was
to help achieve Australian soc-
senior manager in international an Australian soccer World Cup.
cer’s ultimate goal.
sporting organisations.
The International Master of ‘‘To host one would be fantas-
Management, Law and Humani- Despite the name of the course,
the qualification is not limited to tic,’’ he said.
ties of Sport, also known as the
FIFA Master, will take Giles to soccer. ‘‘To win one before I pass on
Adam Giles to do a masters course in soccer administration. Italy, Switzerland and the UK as The course will add to his from this life would be the ulti-
Picture: JOHN APPLEYARD ~PP448519 he learns the finer points of sports degree in Sports Management and mate.’’
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