{"id":42655,"date":"2016-09-28T13:58:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T11:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruyffalumni.org\/johancruyffinstitute-2026\/2000-students-follow-richard-denton-pep-guardiolas-classes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:39:58","slug":"2000-students-follow-richard-denton-pep-guardiolas-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/the-magazine\/sport-marketing\/2000-students-follow-richard-denton-pep-guardiolas-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 2000 students follow Richard Denton and Pep Guardiola\u2019s classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The free online course on sport sponsorship offered by the <a href=\"\/johancruyffinstitute-2026?page_id=41528\" target=\"_blank\">Johan Cruyff Institute<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalsportsjobs.com\/staticpages\/10\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">GlobalSportsJobs<\/a> has exceeded 2,000 enrollments in the first two editions and will remain active until December<\/h2>\n<p class=\"thevelop-dropcap\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/mooc\/sport-sponsorship.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>free online course (in English) on sport sponsorship<\/strong><\/a> given by the <a href=\"\/johancruyffinstitute-2026?page_id=41528\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Johan Cruyff Institute<\/strong><\/a>, together with the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (UAB) and in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalsportsjobs.com\/staticpages\/10\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GlobalSportsJobs<\/strong><\/a>, has had over 2,000 students enrolled in just two editions. The interest in learning the basics of this<strong> marketing technique applied to the world of sport<\/strong> has reached all corners of the globe, from Europe (the majority community with 44% of students), to Asia (18%), United States (18%), Africa (8.5%), India (6.2%) and Oceania (2%). <\/p>\n<p>The classes given by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/richardadenton\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Richard Denton<\/strong><\/a>, professor at the <a href=\"\/johancruyffinstitute-2026?page_id=41528\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Johan Cruyff Institute<\/strong><\/a> and sport marketing consultant with 20 years of experience in the sector, and the involvement of coach <strong>Pep Guardiola<\/strong> in the course, have drawn the attention mainly of <strong>people with higher education<\/strong> (41% are graduates) and <strong>in full-time employment<\/strong>. Although it is a completely free course, the <strong>teaching methodology<\/strong> and <strong>the quality of the content<\/strong> presented were the two aspects most valued by students.<\/p>\n<p>The course is an initiative by the <a href=\"\/johancruyffinstitute-2026?page_id=41528\" target=\"_blank\">Johan Cruyff Institute<\/a>, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalsportsjobs.com\/staticpages\/10\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">GlobalSportsJobs<\/a>, to facilitate access to training for the professionalization of the sport sector and<strong> will be available until December<\/strong> in successive five-week editions. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the world of sport sponsorship and give them the basic knowledge required to develop a real project: the activation of a sponsorship for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruyff-foundation.org\/en\/cruyff-courts\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Cruyff Court&#8217; of the Cruyff Foundation<\/a>. The best activation plan will be announced in January 2017 and will be awarded a scholarship to study an Online Postgraduate at the Johan Cruyff Institute.<\/p>\n<p>You can enroll <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/mooc\/sport-sponsorship.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='programa-destacado-post'>\n<h3 class=\"especiality-mini-title\">Online Master in<\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"programa-maxi-title\">Sport Marketing &amp; Sponsorship<\/h2>\n<div class=\"thevelop-posts\">\n<article>\n<p>The main objective of the Master in Sport Marketing &amp; Sponsorship is to guide you in your professional development as an integral sport marketing and sponsorship professional, and teach you how to use marketing tools applied to sports to recognize business opportunities, develop strategies in creative industries, anticipate changes, and optimize and analyze information resources judiciously.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button-in-post\" title=\"Online Master in Sport Marketing &amp; Sponsorship\" href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/programa\/master-in-sport-marketing-sponsorship-online\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Sign up<\/a><\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free online course on sport sponsorship offered by the Johan Cruyff Institute and GlobalSportsJobs has exceeded 2,000 enrollments in the first two editions and will remain active until December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,229,228],"tags":[],"editorial_type":[],"class_list":["post-42655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sport-marketing","category-blog-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42655"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_type?post=42655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}