The program’s pedagogy focuses, first, on the students building a love for the game, and developing their relationship with the ball and being able to manipulate, move it and feel comfortable with it. – Discovery Phase

Once the foundation skills of the game like passing, shooting, ball control and dribbling are established, the program focuses on mastering these technical skills through repetition, practice and understanding how they are used together. Comprehension of this relationship is essential to move forward from the basics.  – Skills Acquisition Phase

The third phase of the program is focused on the application of all these football and life-skills in a regular football match, i.e. tactics, positioning, team dynamics and understanding the opposition. – Game Phase

A typical lesson would see students going through 5-6 different session components, starting from a Warm Up, moving to a Fun Activity, Skill Practice, and then Match Practice, with life-skills being taught implicitly and explicitly across all these components. Each session ends with a Cool Down and Team Talk. This session structure provides Coaches with avenues to debrief, discuss, and engage with the students at different times through different methods. This ability to focus on life-skills throughout the session is what sets us apart from conventional football coaching. The Team Talk and Fun Activity components explicitly focus on connecting the game to multiple positive values, traits and concepts, thus strengthening a child’s internalization of the life-skills learned on the pitch.