Your path to professional soccer in Europe — or to U.S. college soccer
ETURE SPORTSMADE IN ADVERSITY
The Soccer Company
ETURE Sports is the leading college soccer recruiting agency in Europe and Spain, recognized as one of the strongest agencies by NCAA coaches.
To date, ETURE Sports has guided 729 players through the U.S. college recruiting process, with 437 commitments to Division I programs.
Our Gap-Year programs, residential development programs based in Spain, have one of the highest success rates in advancing players to the top levels of college soccer. Eture Women’s Soccer brings that same model to female players, from our Valencia campus.
Beyond college pathways, ETURE is also a FIFA-licensed professional agency and has facilitated the recruitment of two MLS Draft picks: Hugo Bacharach to MNUFC (1st round) and Javier Armas to Atlanta United FC.
Everything ETURE Sports
Where our players have signed
ETURE Founders
Jaime Miralles
Villarreal CF Academy
Graduate in Economics, Oregon State University
2015 American East Champion in Vermont Soccer
FIFA Licensed Agent
jaime@eturesports.com
Joaquin (Ximo) Miralles
Villarreal CF Academy
Graduate in Economics, Clemson University
ACC Finalist & NCAA Quarter Finals
Former LALIGA2 player
ximo@eturesports.com
Soccer as a Vehicle
Our mission is simple: facilitating the personal and professional growth of our student-athletes through the sport we all love, soccer. For ETURE, soccer is not the end goal, but the vehicle through which players navigate different stages of life — instilling companionship, leadership, ownership, resilience, and tolerance to adversity.
Everything at ETURE revolves around the core value that defines our philosophy: Made in Adversity. We believe every challenge soccer presents — an injury, a missed chance, a setback — is an opportunity to build problem solvers with a winning mentality, ready to make a lasting impact both on the field and in their communities long after they leave Valencia.
At ETURE, we see opportunity in the face of adversity, the opportunity to overcome, to push your limits, to grow, and to become the best version of yourself. Real growth happens outside your comfort zone, like when you adapt to a new country, language, and culture. Or even a new team. It’s where resilience is built, patience understood, maturity developed, and ultimately self-belief instilled.
We don’t offer a guarantee of success. Instead, we embrace the obstacles along the way, without hiding them, and give you the tools and resources to turn setbacks into strength, defeats into lessons, and ultimately failure into success.
That is our Made in Adversity culture.
That’s the ETURE way.
“MADE in Adversity” isn’t just a marketing slogan — it’s our program culture. Players and families who don’t align with this mission are welcome to pursue other pathways. We are looking for young individuals who believe that true growth comes from overcoming difficulties and challenges. We build character.
— Jaime Miralles
Global Track Record
Over a decade turning international talent into college soccer careers.
Made in the NCAA
ETURE is built by former NCAA players and coaches. Our methodology and solutions are born from first-hand experience and a deep understanding of a system we have played and coached at the highest levels, across all NCAA divisions.
FIFA Licensed Agency
ETURE Sports operates at every level of the soccer industry across both the European and North American markets. In 2023, we launched our boutique of player and club representation along with Juan Manuel Barbero Sánchez, a former LaLiga professional player and football agent with over 20 years of experience in player representation and whose expertise has been instrumental in ETURE’s growth at multiple levels. Together with the experience and unique vision of the twin brothers, Ximo and Jaime, the ETURE Professional Department is now a FIFA-licensed agency qualified to represent players, clubs, and act as intermediaries in major transactions.
Our mission is to complete the journey with the players we begin developing at the residential programs and assist at the college level, providing greater support and guidance to our clients as they pursue professional opportunities in the MLS, USL Championship, USL League One, LaLiga, and across Europe. Over the past years, our agency has also dedicated significant work to the African market, working closely with clubs and players to help export top talent and create genuine pathways into the European and American soccer systems.
Eture Women’s Soccer
Come to Spain for a season. Train every day, compete inside the Spanish soccer system, and find out how far you can actually go.
One full season · Based in Valencia · Gap Year
The opportunity
Most players never get an honest look at how far they can really go. They work hard, they follow the standard path, and then a decision arrives — before anybody has truly tested what they could have done in a professional European environment.
This season is built to answer that question head-on. Spain is one of the most competitive and technically demanding environments in world soccer: you train alongside and compete against players who grew up in the system, assessed by coaches and agents who scout and place talent for a living.
We do not offer false promises or guarantees. Breaking into the professional game takes relentless work, grit and belief. What you leave with is a higher level of game intelligence, real European exposure, and the confidence of knowing you gave everything.
Market Insight
Key trends impacting college soccer recruitment — and why the right pathway matters more than ever.
Consequences of COVID–19 on Redshirting
Extended eligibility for athletes has impacted roster dynamics across every conference.
Emergence of the Transfer Portal
Increased player mobility means fiercer competition for every roster spot.
Continuous Influx of International Players
A growing pool of talent is reshaping recruiting strategies nationwide.
New NCAA Roster Rule
Rosters are now limited to 28 spots per team, creating increased competition for recruitment and retention.
The ETURE Process
Navigating the NCAA eligibility clock: a gap year first means your value keeps compounding long after the traditional path plateaus.
1 gap year · 5 years in college2 gap years · 5 years in college
Development
Five things, every week, for a full season. None of it is a workshop or a one-off.
Team training
Daily sessions with your group, run to a season plan rather than to whatever the week happens to feel like.
Individual work
Specific sessions on what your game needs, chosen from what the staff sees rather than from what you already do well.
Player development
Your own plan, reviewed through the season, so progress is something you can see rather than something you are told about.
Tactical adaptation
Learning to play Spanish football: the positioning, the tempo and the reading of the game a Spanish dressing room assumes you already have.
Strength & conditioning
Structured physical work in our own weight room, so the level you reach in March is a level your body can hold.
The Spanish club pathway
A season of training is not a season of football. Through your year we work to place you in the Spanish club environment that matches your level and what your development needs — competitive minutes in a real league, with a real table, in front of people who are watching.
The placement is individual. Where you play is decided by where you are, not by where the group is, and it is not the end of the conversation: what you do once you are there is what opens the next door.
Most of this happens in and around Valencia, where we are based and where our staff know the clubs.
We do not sell a program. We provide a pathway — and a pathway is walked, not bought. If the fit turns out to be wrong, finding a better one is our job, not yours.
ETURE Women’s Soccer · Weekly Schedule
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Weekend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning 8–12pm | ETURE Training | Breakfast · Recovery Session | Breakfast · ETURE Training | Breakfast · ETURE Training | Breakfast · Pre-Match Tactics | Breakfast |
| Afternoon 12–4pm | Lunch · Spanish Class | Lunch · Spanish Class · GSP Class | Lunch · Spanish Class | Lunch · Spanish Class · GSP Class | Lunch · Spanish Class | Lunch · Gameday |
| Evening 4–8pm | Individual Gym Access | Team Gym Session | Individual Gym Access | Team Gym Session | Individual Gym Access | Gameday |
| Night 8–10pm | Dinner · Spanish Club Training | Dinner · Spanish Club Training | Dinner · Spanish Club Training | Dinner | Dinner · Spanish Club Training | Dinner |
Every morning, players train with ETURE staff on the Valencia campus. In the evenings, each player trains with the Spanish club she has been placed in, and plays its league on the weekend. Academic obligations continue via ETURE’s academic partners to meet visa compliance and eligibility requirements.
Made in Adversity
Five things decide who gets through a season like this one.
Adversity
There will be weeks when nothing works, in a language you are still learning, a long way from home. Those weeks are not what stands in front of the development. They are where it happens.
Identity
Knowing what you came for, and being able to say it out loud in February, when the answer is less obvious than it was in September.
Character
Talent gets you noticed. How you train when nobody is watching, and how you carry a bad result into the next session, is what keeps you in the game.
Patience
Development has no shortcut and does not run to anybody’s deadline. Your dream needs a pathway, and a pathway takes the time it takes.
Belief
Believing before the offers do. If we believe in a player, our job is to get her to believe it too — and then to go and earn the evidence.
The result is what happens. The outcome is who you become.
Where this can take you
You do not have to answer that before you find out how far you can go. That is what the year is for.
U.S. college soccer
Wanting to play in college is not a smaller ambition, it is a different route — and a year here makes you a better recruit and a better-informed one: a higher level, a season of competitive footage against adults, and a recruitment staff that has been placing players in NCAA programs for years.
Professional soccer in Europe
You spend the year inside the Spanish system, and if your level and your performances say so, ETURE’s professional department goes to work on the environment that takes you further.
College is not the fallback. It is one of two good answers, and the season is what tells you which one is yours.
Beyond the program
The aim of this season is clear: to help you find the very best version of yourself as a player. But what happens with us does not end on the pitch — it evolves.
As your level rises and a professional opportunity becomes a real prospect, the relationship changes with it: from program player to agent client.
ETURE is a fully FIFA-licensed agency with a deep commitment to the women’s game. Having the development team and the representation team under one roof means the same organisation that guides your daily work is equipped to manage, negotiate and defend your career at professional level.
FIFAAll representation terms are discussed and agreed directly with the player and her family.
ETURE Women’s Soccer · Gallery
Where is it located?
The city is one of the reasons players stay in Spanish football longer than they planned. Mediterranean, walkable, and affordable enough that a life outside training is actually possible.
A city built for being outside
Weather you can train in for most of the year, a beach at the end of the tram line, and a park running through the middle of the city where the river used to.
Somewhere you can settle
Valencia is one of the easiest cities in Spain to arrive in alone, which matters far more in the first month than anybody expects it to.
Spanish, by immersion
You will not learn the language in a classroom. You will learn it in a dressing room, which is faster and considerably more useful.
Your home · ETURE Valencia campus
The residence is good, safe and functional. It is not a hotel and does not pretend to be — the closest thing to it is a freshman dorm, with the difference that the field is a walk away rather than a bus ride.
Rooms shared with other players. A canteen, a study room, a weight room and a common room. A day that begins and ends within a few minutes of where you train.
Room configuration for the first Women’s Soccer season is confirmed with every family before anyone commits.
Program facilities · Valencia
A natural grass pitch on the same site as the residence.
A turf pitch for daily sessions in any weather.
Our own strength & conditioning room, for the physical side of the plan.
An on-site medical and physiotherapy service for prevention, recovery and rehab.
Residence and pitches in one frame: no commute between where you live and where you train.
A dedicated fleet for airport pick-up and every program activity and match.
The founding class
This is year one. The group that arrives is not an intake — it is the founding class, and its season becomes the thing every year after this one is measured against.
There is a real advantage in being early: staff attention that is not spread across previous cohorts, and a program still being shaped around the players actually in it.
What Is Included
Vamos Toros
Apply now and join the founding class.
Limited spots in the first ETURE Women’s Soccer class, Season 2026–2027. Send us your profile and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right year for you.
Made in Adversity
