Arrival day
Airport pickup, apartment check, essentials in place, and calm orientation in Portuguese or Spanish from minute one.
Post-transfer settlement operations
Your player lands.
Your player lands.
We handle everything else.
On-the-ground settlement support for South American footballers and athletes moving to Europe. From contract signed to fully operational - in their language, from day one.
13
Languages covered
24/7
Emergency on-call
90
Days of coverage
<48h
Deployment time
The settlement gap after a player arrives
“A Brazilian midfielder signs with a club in Poland. Contract done. Work permit approved. Then the player lands in Krakow - and real life begins.”
The apartment is not ready. Letters arrive in a language no one can read. The bank asks for documents that do not exist back home. A partner is alone in a new city with two suitcases and a child starting school in five days.
The club provides
Training, physio, tactics
The agency provides
Contract negotiation, career planning
SigaSiga provides
Everything that makes life work.
What we do in practice
From the moment they land.
This is not generic relocation consulting. It is on-the-ground coordination in the player's language, solving real problems in real time so football stays the priority.
First week setup
SIM and data, bank account, utilities, internet, and a neighbourhood walkthrough. By day seven, daily life feels manageable.
Administrative support
Official document translation, healthcare navigation, immigration letters, and residency paperwork, all handled with in-person support.
Ongoing support
Cultural mediation, local communication, family questions, and practical follow-through after the intensity of the first week.
Emergency support
Hospital visits, immigration issues, urgent paperwork, and family crises. Always available when things escalate.
Family integration
School search and enrolment, spouse orientation, community introductions, and local routines that lower stress fast.
Why off-pitch stability matters
When life is unstable, performance feels it.
Players do not arrive into empty lives. Sleep, housing, paperwork, transport, and family stress can all start pulling attention away from training and recovery. Stable settlement conditions help players adapt faster and keep more energy for football.
Travel & sleep
Travel days and late kickoffs often steal sleep first.
Across elite sport, sleep tends to drop around competition and demanding travel. That usually means the recovery window gets tighter exactly when the body needs it most.
~1 hour
Typical sleep loss on competition nights
Where pressure usually peaks
The biggest drop tends to come after night competition and demanding travel.
What SigaSiga stabilizes
Settle the first 72 hours properly.
We cannot control match schedules. We can remove avoidable noise around arrival, housing, transport, paperwork, and family questions so recovery time is not spent firefighting.
Pressure snapshot
Where sleep pressure tends to be strongest.
Services that absorb it
What this protects
The evidence in this section points in the same direction: when sleep, stress, family logistics, and daily systems are unstable, players have less capacity left for training, recovery, and adaptation. Good settlement support does not replace football work - it helps protect it.
Research references
How we operate across Europe
Coordinated remotely. Deployed locally.
SigaSiga operates through a multilingual team based across Southern, Western, and Eastern Europe, with additional coverage across the Middle East. We assign the right coordinator, deploy locally, and stay close remotely once the player is stable.
If a player signs in Poland, Sweden, Romania, Greece, or a new destination market, we send the right coordinator into the city, manage the settlement on the ground, stay until things are stable, then hand over to remote support.
Southern Europe
Southern Europe is where language support, family onboarding, and local routine-building often need to move fastest after a transfer.
Portugal
Spain
Italy
Greece
Typical focus: airport arrival, first-week setup, family orientation, and cultural mediation.
Regional coverage
Packages & pricing
Three ways to work together.
All prices are in EUR. Payments are made via Wise and confirmed in full before coordinator travel begins. Every booking includes a formal invoice, a clear scope, and a structured operational handoff.
Per-player package
€3,780 / 7 days
€7,560 for full 14-day settlement
- Arrival day plus full first-week setup
- Administrative, healthcare, translation, and ongoing support
- All coordinator travel costs included
- Family integration add-on available for €1,000
Recommended for agencies
Agency partnership
From €3,213 / 7 days
Bronze: 3-5 players per year · Silver from €3,024 · Gold custom pricing
- Priority response within 12 hours
- Volume discounts of 15% to 20%
- 12-month partnership with flexible placement scheduling
- Quarterly invoicing
- Dedicated contact line
24/7 available
Emergency
€750 / day
Minimum 2 days · Remote support at €150/hour
- Hospital, immigration, and family crisis support
- Emergency mobilisation fee of €500
- Travel and expenses billed at cost + 15%
- On-ground deployment within 24-48 hours
Two-player same-club placements: second player 50% off · Group packages for 3-5 players: €7,000 / 7 days or €14,000 / 14 days · Custom pricing for 6+ players
How it works
Seven days. From arrival to fully operational.
Day 1
Arrival
Airport reception, transport, apartment orientation, essentials walkthrough, and a calm welcome briefing in the player's language.
Day 2
Essential setup
SIM activation, mobile data, local transport, and the first practical fixes that stop the arrival from feeling chaotic.
Day 3
Banking & utilities
Bank account support, utilities, internet, and the day-to-day details that make the apartment and routine actually work.
Day 4
Healthcare & admin
Healthcare registration, insurance orientation, appointment booking, and the first layer of official systems put in order.
Day 5
Translation & paperwork
Immigration letters, forms, translations, and document review, all explained clearly in the player's language.
Day 6
Family support & local routine
School or family support, neighbourhood rhythm, cultural mediation, and the final practical details that reduce off-pitch stress.
Day 7
Handoff & remote support
Support channels are confirmed and ongoing remote support begins, with translation, emergencies, family questions, and admin issues still covered through the first 90 days.
The 14-day package keeps an on-the-ground coordinator in place through the critical second week for deeper family integration, stronger routines, and a cleaner final handoff.
Our team
A trusted Europe-wide team behind every arrival.
We work as one coordinated unit across borders, combining local presence, shared standards, multilingual communication, and calm operational follow-through.
Niko Koukidis
Hristo Rashkov
Latchezar Petrov
Albright Temba
Backed by additional multilingual coordinators across Europe, ready to step in wherever a player signs.
About
A distributed team built for the realities of life after a transfer.
Multilingual across EuropeA Europe-based team built around settlement support, family stability, and calm execution once the transfer is signed.
Coordinated remotelyOne operating rhythm, one shared standard, and one clear point of contact across every placement and handoff.
Deployed locallyWe activate the right coordinator in the destination city, stay until things are stable, then transition into remote support.
SigaSiga is not generic relocation consulting. We are a distributed athlete-settlement team built for the messy, practical stretch between a contract being signed and daily life working smoothly. We combine operational structure with human support, so players and families feel looked after from arrival day onward.
We operate as one team across borders: coordinated remotely, delivered locally, and ready to support arrivals, family integration, and off-pitch issues wherever a player signs.
For agencies & clubs
You close the deal. We handle what comes next.
Agencies and clubs use SigaSiga when they want the off-pitch experience to match the professionalism of the transfer itself. We become your settlement operations arm - discreet, structured, multilingual, and ready to support a single arrival or a full transfer window.
- Preferred rates for volume placements
- Priority response and dedicated contact
- Quarterly invoicing and flexible scheduling
Work with us locally
We're building a multilingual Europe-wide ground team.
We are building a trusted network of local coordinators who can step into settlement support with sound judgment, cultural sensitivity, and practical follow-through. If you can help athletes and families feel stable quickly, we would like to hear from you.
Express your interestContact
Tell us about the transfer.
Response within 24 hours. Every conversation starts with a free 15-20 minute call.
Start with a free 15-minute call.
No pressure. We'll tell you exactly what the player, the family, and the transfer handoff will need.
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