Hills DistrictNorth ShoreSydneyAdelaide

Separate yourself.

Technical football coaching built on Spanish methodology. Every session is shaped around one player — what their game is missing, and the detail that fixes it.

One action, four details

The details others skip.

A single receive-and-pass takes about three seconds. Inside it are four decisions most players make by accident and most coaches never see. These are the four, from our own sessions.

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1−2 s · before the ball arrives

What the head does in the two seconds before the ball arrives.

The scan before the touch decides the touch. A player who watches the ball travel has already lost the picture — where the pressure is, where the space is. We coach the look, then the count, then the habit.

Coached as: two looks before every receipt
20 s · the touch

Where the first touch leaves the ball relative to the nearest defender.

A clean touch is not the standard. The standard is a touch into the space the defender cannot reach in one step — the first touch is the first pass, and it is played to yourself.

Coached as: touch away from pressure, into the next action
3+1 s · the plant

Where the standing foot points.

The pass goes where the standing foot points, not where the eyes look. Ten degrees off and the ball arrives a stride late, and a stride late is the difference between a pass and a turnover.

Coached as: plant to the target, every rep
4+1 s · the strike

Which part of the foot.

Inside, laces or outside. The surface chosen sets the weight and the spin of everything that follows, and most players never choose — they use whichever surface arrives first. We make it a decision.

Coached as: the surface is picked before the plant

Methodology

How we coach.

1

The details others skip

Which part of the foot. Where the standing foot points. What the head does in the two seconds before the ball arrives. Where the first touch leaves the ball. These are the details that decide whether a skill survives a game, and these are the details we coach.

2

Technique inside decisions

Spanish academies spend around half the time on unopposed drills that English and German ones do — two thirds of their session is live decision-making. We coach the same way: technique is trained inside the decision, never apart from it.

Session time in active decision-making
Spain
67%
England
56%
Measured across 83 sessions at elite youth academies.
3

The standard is fixed. The route is not.

Every drill carries a rep count and a standard, and neither gets lowered because the hour is nearly up. How a player reaches it is built around them — what they can already do, the position they play, and the thing their game is actually missing.

Coaches

Who is on the grass.

Our coaches have played and trained inside the systems we teach from. What they bring to a session is the standard they were held to.

Playing experience

  • Spanish Division 1 Youth ESP
  • A-League AUS
  • NPL 1 Youth NSW
  • Australian Schoolboys selection AUS
  • National Futsal selection AUS

Qualifications

  • Football Australia C-Licence
  • Cert III & IV in Fitness
  • Working With Children Check

Sessions & prices

One hour. One player.

Grassroots

Ages 5 – 12

Ball mastery, first touch, dribbling and passing fundamentals. Short, sharp, high-repetition work in a small group or alone with a coach.

Elite Pathway

Ages 13 – 18

Position-specific and game-realistic. Longer, more intensive sessions built around the actions your position actually performs on a Saturday.

1-on-1 One hour, one player$100
Pair Two players of a similar level$70 per player
Small group Three to six players$50 per player

Prices are per session. Places each term are limited.

Sydney · Adelaide

Where we train.

Sydney · NSW

Hills District

Our home ground. Weekly 1-on-1s and small groups run here across the week and on weekends.

Castle Hill · Kellyville · Baulkham Hills · Bella Vista · Rouse Hill · Glenhaven

Sydney · NSW

North Shore

Sessions on the North Shore by arrangement. Tell us where your player is based when you get in touch.

Chatswood · Lane Cove · Willoughby · St Ives · Gordon · Pymble

South Australia

Adelaide

Our Adelaide sessions run through our Adelaide-based coach, on the same method and to the same standard.

Sessions across metropolitan Adelaide

Before you message

Questions parents ask.

Five to eighteen. Grassroots is 5–12 and builds the technical foundation — ball mastery, first touch, dribbling, passing. Elite Pathway is 13–18 and is position-specific: the actions your player’s position actually performs in a game.

Grounds across the Hills District and the North Shore in Sydney, and in Adelaide through our Adelaide-based coach. We confirm the specific ground when we book you in — it depends on the day, the session and where your player is coming from.

We watch before we coach. The first twenty minutes are the basics at speed — receiving, turning, striking — because that is where the habits show. Then we start on the one detail that will make the biggest difference to your player, and we work it until it holds.

You will know what we found by the end of the hour. We tell you directly, in plain terms, without a report to buy.

No. Sessions are booked one at a time and you are never locked in. Places each term are limited, so the calendar does fill — but nothing is prepaid and there is no contract.

It doesn’t. A club coach is running a squad and building a team. We are working on one player’s technique, which is the thing a squad session structurally cannot reach. Most of our players train with a club and come to us on top of it.

Only if you want us to, and only with your written permission. Filming is genuinely useful — seeing the same drill in the first session and the tenth is the clearest evidence of progress there is — but it is entirely your choice and it changes nothing about the coaching.

Footage is never posted anywhere without asking you first, separately, each time.

Boots, a full water bottle, and training kit they can move in. That is the whole list — we bring everything else.

We train. Football doesn’t stop for weather, and the players who go furthest are the ones who adapt to whatever they are given — a wet ball is a coaching opportunity, not a cancelled session.

The exception is genuine danger. Lightning, or a ground closed by the council or the club: we follow those rules every time, without exception. You will get a confirmation message close to the session either way, so you are never left guessing.

Payment is on the day of the session.

If something comes up and your player can’t make it, tell us and there is no cancellation fee. The one thing we ask is that it isn’t thirty minutes before the session — by then the coach is already at the ground and the hour can’t go to anyone else.

Yes. Every coach holds a current Working With Children Check, and we’ll show you the number on request. Parents are welcome to stay and watch any session.

Getting started

Tell us about your player.

Message us with your player's age and the position they play, and we will talk through what they need and where they would fit. We train in the Hills District, on the North Shore, and in Adelaide. Places each term are limited.

The email opens with the three things we ask for already laid out. We usually reply within a day.