The Sportageous Cast

Luis Ferreira the President of the National Squash Federation - Portugal, catches up with Zushan on growing the game, the work federations need to do to enhance the game's reputation, his candidacy for the European Squash Federation and the opportunities for marketing in squash. 

Anita Aggarwal is a Paraclimber from the UK living with Multiple Sclerosis (meaning Multiple Scars) since 2009. She recently won her first ever competition which led her to being asked to climb for Great Britain.  She now focuses on coaching youngsters on the spectrum or with down syndrome, and other ailments. Anita is focused on bringing paraclimbing to the next level.

The Founder of Fun With Balls, Markos Kern shares his insights into the gamification of sport, the successes of their products, including the new Limbic Active, Multiball and of course, InteractiveSquash, which he will be talking about at TheSquashSummit.

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with the Professional Squash player, Sarah-Jane Perry.  

The founder of SportsMENTA Conference, the first sports and mental health conference in the Middle East and North Africa region, Ally Salama, features on the Sportageous Videocast to talk about mental health awareness in sports and its future in the MENA region.

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with the Founder of Bullpen, Clint Vojdinoski. Bullpen is a sports technology publisher that dives deep into sports business, startups, technology, data and intelligence. The mission is to spotlight who and what is shaping the future of the sporting industry. In this quick cast, Clint takes a look back at Sports Tech in 2020, the future of Sports Tech, the Bullpen - Sportageous partnership and more.

Our guest on The Sportageous Cast is none other than the legendary squash coach and arguably one of the most successful coaches in any sport globally, Rahmat Khan! Hailing from the legendary Pakistani squash family, upon his cousin, Torsam Khan's sudden passing during a tournament match in Australia, Rehmat, himself a top-level squash player, decided to coach Torsam's younger brother and his cousin, Jahangir Khan. The. Rest. Is. History. Hear Rahmat Khan's insights into the winning mentality, the future of Squash in Pakistan and coaching Jahangir Khan.

Sa'ad Mohamed is an explorer by passion, a trainer by profession and a content creator by accident with an  MBA-Marketing degree from GC University and dabbles into photography and film making. He not only climbs mountains but documents his expeditions and has Reached Camp III (7,080m) of Mt. Everest in 2017, up to 6,100m on Gasherbrum II in 2019 and Reached 6,630m on Gasherbrum I in 2018.

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with rising start from Dutch Cricket, Sterre Kalis.  Being just 21 years old she already has a T20 century and is aiming to be a professional cricketer by improving her skills. Sterre has been nominated for ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Decade award.

Better Events VR is an Australia-based event management company that specialises in extended reality (XR) applications such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), 3D and 4D design for the events, sporting and tourism industries. Here, their three founders, Dan Barr, Ingrid Arkessteijn and Ingrid Proud catch up with Sportageous to share their insights into sports, events, XR, VR and the future of the industry.

Limor is a former professional basketball player has over 15 years of experience playing in the Israeli League. Currently the CEO of STRIV3, a Sport-Tech Startup. Striv3 is a digital platform that connects coaches and athletes globally for remote personalized basketball training.

Carly Post is a communications expert and the founder of The Digital Athlete, a consultancy which aims to educate and empower athletes in harnessing social media to build a resilient online profile, manage reputation and protect mental health.

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Oliver Marach, Austrian Professional Tennis Player.  Oliver shares his  - Tennis career

Today we had a pleasure to chat with Australia's former Off Spinner, Nathan Hauritz. Nathan shares his best memories and his experience throughout his career. Nathan also shares information about his 1st Class Cricket Academy, on how the coaches there have been working on the young talent coming into Cricket.

BabaGol is all about #KeepingFootballReal, covering stories of football in the Middle East and North Africa, from South Korea to Burundi, they bring you football analysis and perspective that matters. We catch up with BabaGol founder, Uri Levy, in this episode, and hear his insights into a range of topics, including how the strengthening of Israeli-Gulf Arab ties impacts the sport in the region, an overview of the BabaGol journey and much more.

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with the Former Head Coach of Squash Australia, Paul Price. Paul exclusively talks about Inspired Peak Performance, how they have been inspiring people and having live coaching sessions.  Paul being an experienced Squash player talks about how his experience has helped him throughout his career as a National Coach at Squash Australia.

Shahid Zaman Khan is a professional squash coach and former pro player. Reaching a World ranking of #14, Shahid has spent the last two decades training some of the world's best players, including World #7 Amanda Sobhy and World #20 Sabrina Sobhy. Over the last 10 years, Shahid has headed up the squash program atThe Tennis & Racquet Club in downtown Boston. He has also traveled the world as a visiting squash coach for thePakistan Squash Federation and the Squash Racquets Association of Malaysia.

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with the Co-Founder & CEO of Goal Click, Matthew Barrett. Matthew exclusively talks about Goal Click, a global football storytelling platform, how Goal Click has been telling interesting football stories from all around the world.

Heidi is an Associate in the Regulatory and Investigations team within the litigation and dispute resolution practice at Clifford Chance. Heidi is also a two-time Olympian in the sport of open water swimming and a decorated sportsperson.

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with the Co-Founder & CEO of Blinder, Ross McConnell. Ross exclusively talks about Blinder, a web-based application that connects instantly with anyone through any device to create secured and HD video and audio content. He further talks about how Blinder is being used by many renowned media channels & what are the plans to improve it in future.

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Romain Thevenot, Director and acting CEO of Sport Climbing Australia.  Romain is an avid climber himself, also one of the early administrators of Sport Climbing Victoria and a key player in developing sport climbing in Australia. In this episode, Romain shares his insights into the growth of climbing in Australia, the 2020 Oceania Championships, the Olympic spot and much more on climbing.

Barry Coffey

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Former CEO Hong Kong & Founder Emerging Cricket, Tim Cutler.  Tim talks about how funding can impact on associate cricketing nations, and how the ICC can play a better role to highlight associate cricket. He also shares his journey as Former CEO Hong Kong Cricket and how this role led to his idea behind Emerging Cricket. Emerging Cricket is a volunteer-run associate cricket-focused media platform that shares stories and updates on cricket from around the associate world.

In this podcast we have Lucky Mlilo, President of Squash Federation Africa

In this episode of Sportageous Cast, we bring you an insightful conversation with Napoli FC Footballer, Aqsa Mushtaq. Aqsa shares her journey, starting out playing high school football to playing at a professional level. She also shares the challenges and struggles involved with being a female footballer raised in a Pakistani community in the UK and finally touches on how she went global with her career.

Daniel Dawood & Josef Badro, founders of Padel Mates join us on The Sportageous Cast to talk about their new padel matchmaking app and how it's making waves in Sweden!

In this episode of the Sportageous Videocast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Omer Qadri, a mindset and success coach.  Omer shares his insights into mental health, cricket non-cognitive capabilities and more.

Former World #1 Laura Massaro joins us to share insights into her book "All In: Becoming World Champion" From her personal life to her incredible career to fighting for equal pay, Laura opens up about her internal battles, staying fit and a lot more. You can buy her book here: https://www.amazon.com/All-Becoming-Champion-Laura-Massaro/dp/1838351604

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Bangladesh's Cricket coach from Sri Lanka, Naveed Nawaz.  Naveed Nawaz talks about his team's victory in the recent U-19 World Cup, the future of the youth in Bangladesh and coaching in his home country, Sri Lanka.

Campbell Harrison is a 23 year old Sport Climber from Melbourne, Australia. Since beginning his international career in 2012, he's been National Champion, a World Cup semi-finalist, and this year will be heading over to Europe for the first time since the pandemic began to compete on the World Cup Circuit!

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with the team manager of Pakistan's women's emerging squad, Fizza Abid.  Fizza shares her story of being one of the first female sports management professionals in Pakistan, her time at Loughborough University and women in sports in Pakistan. 

Michael Woods is the founder of Inclusive Sport Design, an organisation that helps sports organisation make inclusion happen! Michael shares his insights into Australian sport including diversity in sports, inclusive sports marketing & promotion, clothing for all Swimming Australia and more.

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Australian cricketer, Matt Short.  Matt Short has played for the Australia A Team, the Big Bash League (Adelaide Strikers) & the Victorian cricket team. He shares his journey in cricket and his experiences as a batting all-rounder.  Matt also discussed the challenges faced by most players while playing First-Class cricket & how mental health awareness is now been taking as a serious matter in Cricket. 

In this exciting conversation, Carlos Schonenberg, Founder of Squash Para Todos takes us through short wall squash and building a grassroots squash community in El Salvador

In this episode of Sportageous Cast, we bring you a conversation with former Matildas star, Alison Forman. Alison Forman played 2 World Cups for the Matildas in the 90s and represented her country at the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics. She has also played over 75 games for the Matildas. Now working with the Dana Cup in Hjorring, Denmark, Alison shares her insights into the 2023 Women's FIFA World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Ingy Ali joins us as the first certified female Egyptian Padel coach to talk about the sport itself, her journey from squash to tennis to padel, and her predictions on the future of padel.

In this episode of Sportageous Cast, we bring you a conversation with Pakistan's pre-eminent football journalist, Shahrukh Sohail. From working for Football Pakistan to bringing renowned footballers to play the first international football event in Pakistan, Shahrukh has done it all. Shahrukh reveals the major problems football in Pakistan has been facing and how the Government can play its role to take the game to the next level. 

Pere Valdivieso, founder of Padel in One, shares his insights into launching some of the first padel courts in Australia, supporting the founding of the Australian Padel Federation and bringing the sport across the seas from Barcelona. Prefer watching this conversation? Head on over to our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/WH6YsTDGYbI

In this episode of the Sportageous Cast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Casey Lake, the winner of our Climbageous (Instagram) Giveaway. Casey shares the story of how she started climbing, why she loves the sport and what she does outside of the sport.

Chris Hanebury is renowned as a squash coach, having coached in places like the Turks and Caicos Islands and Canada. More recently, Chris has joined the University of Western Ontario, to assist in developing some of the finest squash players in the country. Chris also runs one of the most popular online squash platforms today, Serious Squash. Having amassed over 15 thousand followers across its socials, and 1000s of hits per day on the website, Chris shares the story of squash coaching, the state of the game itself, in a global context, and of course, squash and social media.

Sian Kelly is the Women and Girl's Development Officer and National Coach at Cricket Argentina. Sian shares her insights into: Women's cricket in Argentina, The passion for the sport in Argentina, The challenges of coaching during the pandemic and; The future of the game in the region. Prefer watching this conversation? Head on over to our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/C2Dc1ewP2A8

 In this episode of the Sportageous Videocast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with former UAE cricketer, Amjad Javed.  Amjad Javed represented the UAE at the highest level as an allrounder. He shares his thoughts on expatriate players representing the UAE cricket team, the impact of Pakistan's adopted home games in the UAE on his cricket development, the influence of the ICC HQ in the UAE and the future of the game in the country.  A must watch for associate cricket fans!

SportsX Consulting Technology Practice Lead, Harbir Guram, shares his thoughts on the role of sports technology, how it can be utilised to generate business revenue, and how technology can help to improve an athletes' performance. Learn more about SportsX Consulting here: https://www.sportsxconsulting.com/ Connect with Harbir here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harbir-guram-a1a1b07/

Greg Sturge is the director of strategy at GameDay. In this episode, he takes a deep dive into GameDay, its rebranding, the sports solutions they offer and their next-gen ticketing platform. GameDay is a Stack Sports company that delivers market-leading SaaS sports management technology platforms including Membership Management; Competition and League Management; Data Insights & Reporting; Event & Ticketing Management; Websites and eCommerce. Greg has been involved in various sports organisations over the past few years including Sport England, Snowsport England and more! Tune in for more from The Sportageous Cast here.

Join us in hearing about Dubai's newest squash academy - Flying Daf Academy with founder, Kanzy El Defrawy! Kanzy El Defrawy is a former professional squash player with a highest ranking of #25, an entrepreneur, and the founder & head coach of the UAE's newest squash academy - The Flying Daf Academy.

In this episode of Sportageous Podcast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Mahin Qureshi, a rising tennis player from Pakistan. At the age of just 18 she has represented her country in many International Tennis Federation(ITF) events. In this episode, Mahin talks about her journey towards International events and why most of the youth don't adopt tennis.  She shares some great ideas how Tennis can be promoted among young girls in Pakistan.

We bring you an exclusive conversation with the CEO of the PCB, Wasim Khan. Wasim shares the story of his journey from playing county cricket for Warwickshire to becoming CEO of Leicestershire CCC to currently the PCB. Emphasising the importance of his current regimes strategic plan, Wasim takes us through disabilities cricket, the women's game and the ICC Future Tours Programme, including an English Tour. Cricket fans this is one you don't want to miss!

In this episode of Sportageous Podcast, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Shaun Martyn, founder of Fairbreak Global. FairBreak Global aims for a world where people have fair and equal access to opportunities that enable them to succeed in their chosen endeavour, independent of gender or geographical location through cricket. Their mission is to create opportunities in sport, business, media, arts and education to achieve gender equality on a truly global scale.  In this episode, Shaun shares his insights into the progress of the women's game, the ICC Women's T20 World cup, the Blackwell-Mir Trophy and more!   Get involved with FairBreak here: https://fairbreak.net/

In this episode of Sportageous Podcast, we bring you our conversation with none other than the President-elect of Cricket Scotland, Sue Strachan. Sue Strachan is a kidney doctor by-day, a masters squash champion, and now the president of Cricket Scotland. In this episode, she shares her story of everything from mental health and wellbeing in sports, gender pay parity in squash versus cricket, and joining the leadership team at Cricket Scotland.

In this episode of Sportageous Podcast, we bring you an insightful conversation with the founder of Tifo Football, Neil Klerck. Neil shares the long journey of how he founded TIFO on YouTube, created consistent high-quality and engaging content until its recent sale to The Athletic. To get in touch with Neil Klerck follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-kler...

In this episode of Sportageous Podcast, we bring you part 2 of our conversation with cricket coach extraordinaire, Richard Pybus.  In part 1 Richard Pybus, shared the story of his own cricket career and his role in developing cricket at the domestic level in South Africa. This time around he talks about his time with Pakistan, Bangladesh and West Indies cricket as a coach and as the director of the West Indies Cricket Board. We then talk about his new coaching platform, Cricketlab, which you can visit here: https://www.cricketlab.co/. This is part two of our three-part series on Richard Pybus with our partners at Bullpen: https://www.bullpen.com.au/