- About AFS
Your Team
ANDRE THOMSON
- CEO
- FIFA PLAYERS AGENT
- IAAF ATHLETES REPRESENTATIVE
- ACADEMIC DEGREE IN SPORT SCIENCE & ATHLETICS COACHING
“Sport is a large part of my life, and was the deciding factor for my education choice. Studying at the acclaimed Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, provided the fundamentals for my introduction into the constantly changing sports industry. Our priority is to serve the needs and rights of our clients from the sports business first. We strive to provide the most contemporary business systems and development of sports worldwide.
I established AFS in 2001 while I was still a track athlete with the priority to serve the rights and needs of the athletes first, to support sport careers and improve performances. My team and I have a professional and comprehensive structures to assist sport professionals and talented newcomers from all over the world in their personal career. Our services today has become a worldwide sports business platform to communicate and connect together through partners in all areas of sport.”
MARC JANSSEN
- MEDIA LIAISON
"AFS international relations with the sports industry allows for a constant cross pollination of athletes and events opportunities, keeps me motivated and interested in developments"
DR. MANUEL GRAHMANN
- MEDICAL CONSULTANT
FELIX MUELLER
- ASSISTANT SOCCER
PIERRE AYADI
- PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT
CARY GRANT PASCOAL
- ASSISTANT
DANIEL ESHETU
- REPRESENTATIVE ETHIOPIA
AHMED MAHOUR BACHA
- REPRESENTATIVE ALGERIA
athletes first sportmanagement GmbH (AfS) www.ath1st.com is a full-service sport agency and global sport communication with services in client management, sportconsulting, sportmarketing, sportsponsoring, sportadvertising and sport events. AfS covers all major olympic games sport codes: soccer, athletics / track&field, tennis, swimming, as well as golf, marathon, roadraces and paraplegic sports. AfS services professional players, athletes, coaches and national teams with approved FIFA licence players agents, IAAF Athletes Representatives, Team Managers and sport agents. AfS Athletics Division offers a full service athletes tour management, including the IAAF World Athletics Championships, IAAF Diamond League, IAAF World Challenge Meetings, EAA Premium Meetings and German Meetings series, Athletics Team Base Camps (TBC) and training centers, Athletes Liaison for international competitions. Furthermore AfS is specialized in sport event security, sport hospitality, sport travel and brandmarketing in sport.