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Mirelle Van Rijbroek

Mon 24-Aug-2026

18:00 - 19:00

Join Ben Bartlett for this live Q&A as he speaks to Mirelle van Rijbroek, talent ID education lead at FIFA, about her approach to player development

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Date: Monday 24 August

Time: 6-7pm BST / 1-2pm ET

Location: Online (Zoom)

About Mirelle

Mirelle Van Rijbroek is a football technical strategist and specialist in talent identification, scouting, player development, methodology, and football education. With extensive experience across federations, clubs, and international football environments, she supports the design of football visions, development frameworks, curricula, and talent systems that connect strategy to practice.

Currently talent ID education lead at FIFA, a role she’s held since February 2024, Van Rijbroek has spent the bulk of her career thus far with national federations.

Six years as US Soccer’s director of talent identification saw her responsible for identification and monitoring for the U14-U23 women’s youth national teams, coaching education talent ID and development, international benchmarking and opponent scouting and analysis. Having left the role in 2023, she continues to work with the federation as a talent ID educator.

She also spent nine years with the KNVB (Royal Dutch Football Association) in her home nation as head of talent ID, talent development and elite performance for the youth national teams.

Van Rijbroek was chief football officer for WSL Football, at the time known as Women’s Professional Game, and has held roles at two NWSL clubs: as director of global scouting and recruitment at Bay FC, and head of football strategy, talent ID and player development at Utah Royals.

Her first career was a player, moving to Australia at the age of 22 to pursue her dream of playing soccer at the highest level.

While playing, and working at the same time, Van Rijbroek completed her UEFA C, B and A licences.

She went on to be a talent coach for the KNVB and got her first full-time role in the game managing Willem II’s women’s team, now defunct but then competing in the Eredivisie, the highest women’s football league in the Netherlands, of which they were founders, for two years.

Van Rijbroek herself founded The Player Development Journey almost a decade ago. The organisation has a specific focus on building viable, sustainable, and long-term development pathways for women in football by developing education, frameworks and workshops for federations and leagues worldwide.

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