Play basketball in America.
We'll get you ready, then we'll get you there.
Two kids out of this gym in Østerbro have gone to North America. We coached them both for years before they went, and handling the move itself is the part we're adding now.
Most placement services won't name a single player.
You'll see a ninety nine percent success rate on a website that can't tell you one kid it actually sent anywhere. We're doing it the other way round.
Every player we help goes on this page by name, with the school and the year.
Malthe joined our Academy for the year and we ran the process with him. He went to Orangeville Prep in Ontario. Johan came up through the club from the very first season, and we'll be straight about that one: we built the player, his family ran the move.
Here is exactly who does what. We do the evaluation, the film, the profile and the relationship, because we are the ones who see the player every week. The placement itself runs through licensed partner agencies who handle school matching, admissions and the visa. We stay in it the whole way and we stay on the phone once they land.
Two players out of one gym. Both named.
This is the full list. When it grows, it grows here.
Johan Lyager Joensen
Johan's one of the originals. He was on the floor in Talata's first season, back when the club was twenty kids and one team. This year he's off to Martins Ferry High School in Ohio to play for the Purple Riders. He goes at fifteen.
- Now at: Martins Ferry High School, Ohio, USA
- Team: the Purple Riders
- At Talata: since 2024, Academy, U15 and U17
- Our part: we built the player. We did not run this move, his family did
Malthe Mikkelsen
Malthe joined the Talata Academy for the year, and we took him through the process. He committed to Orangeville Prep in Ontario at fifteen, one of the top prep programmes in North America and a regular feeder into NCAA Division 1, and spent 2025/26 out there.
- Went to: Orangeville Prep, Ontario, Canada
- Season: 2025/26
- Age at commitment: 15
- Our part: he came to our Academy for that year and we ran the process with him
Two more players have gone from our men's side into the Danish 1. division, which is a domestic step up rather than a placement. They're on the pathway page.
Four routes out. We'll tell you which one is yours.
Most families turn up asking about one of these. Usually it isn't the right one yet. First job is working out which road the player's actually on.
High school and prep, USA and Canada
The most common way into American college basketball, and the road Johan's on. School matching, admissions, host family or dorm, and the visa paperwork that comes with it.
USA · CanadaClubs and academies in Europe
Sometimes the right step up is a short flight, not another continent. Spanish and other European academies take young players seriously and the basketball education is excellent, and a fifteen year old stays inside the same time zone as home.
Spain · EuropeCollege basketball in the USA
NCAA Division 1 and 2, NAIA and JUCO. Eligibility, academics and tape, sorted early, because the academic side ends more of these than the basketball side does.
USARepresentation
Representation and the placement paperwork go through licensed partner agencies, not through the club. We stay the coach in the room, which is the part we are actually qualified for.
FIBA licensedWhere we can actually pick up the phone.
A placement is only as good as who answers on the other end. Split two ways: the ones we have sent a player to, and the ones we know.
These are programmes and coaches we can reach, not sponsors and not endorsements. Our Canada camp runs in Lethbridge, Coach Deng played at Mount Royal in Calgary and Coach Jordan played Division 1 at Wyoming, which is where a lot of the Alberta side of this comes from.
Six steps. The first two cost nothing.
Who is actually in the room.
Deng Awak
Head coach. Founded Talata in 2021, coached both of the players above, and sits in every one of these conversations himself.
Jordan Naughton
Played NCAA Division 1 at the University of Wyoming, then turned pro in Denmark with BK Amager. He coaches our Academy. When a fifteen year old asks what it actually takes, Jordan's the one who answers.
Partner agencies
The placement process runs through established agencies we work with, including FIBA licensed representation. The club doesn't act as the agent and doesn't pretend to.
Coming in 2027: NIL. American college athletes can earn from their name, image and likeness now, and the rules for international athletes are moving fast. We're building that into the advice instead of pretending it isn't there.
Things we won't do.
- We won't tell you your kid is ready when they're not. The honest no is the most useful thing on this page.
- We won't charge you to be looked at. The conversation and the evaluation are free. Paying to be seen is the oldest trick in this business.
- We won't promise a scholarship. Nobody honest can. Anyone who does is selling you something.
- We won't put a percentage on it. We'll put names on it instead, and you can go and check them.
- We won't send a young player abroad because the family can afford it. It has to be right for the player, at the right age, or it's just an expensive way to fall out of love with the game.
What parents actually ask.
- How does a Danish player end up in an American high school? Almost always through prep or high school first, then college. You need tape, measured numbers, school grades and someone on the other end who knows the programme. That's the whole job.
- How old should they be? Fifteen or sixteen is the usual window for high school and prep. Younger than that and we'll normally tell you to wait, and we'll tell you why.
- What does it cost? Depends entirely on the school and how much aid comes with it. You get the full number, including flights and insurance, before anyone signs anything. Our first conversation and evaluation are free.
- Will they get a scholarship? Maybe. We won't promise it and neither should anybody else.
- What if they're not good enough yet? Then we say so and we tell you what to work on. Most players who ask us aren't ready in the first year. That isn't a no forever.
- Can they come home? Yes, and some do. Malthe went to Canada for a year and came back. That year still counts.
- Do they need to be a Talata player? No. If you're at another club in Denmark and you want an honest read, get in touch.
Start with the conversation.
Send us the player's age, what they're playing now, and what you're hoping for. We'll tell you whether it's a road worth walking, and it costs nothing to ask.
Not ready for that yet? The Pathway Camp in October is three days of exactly this evaluation, with a measured profile, filmed games and a written assessment at the end. It's the honest read without committing to anything.