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· 250+ session plans with animations
· In-depth video breakdowns
· Quizzes to reinforce learning
· New lessons added every month
Perfect for coaches who’ve completed the Art & Science of Fútbol Coaching course and want to apply what they’ve learned on the field immediately.
$99/year or $25/month. Includes access to The Art and Science of Fútbol Coaching and Foundations of Fútbol Coaching. Cancel anytime.
CURRICULUM BREAKDOWN
Master the core elements of fútbol coaching through a progressive, hands-on curriculum. Each module combines practical tasks, tactical theory, and proven Spanish methodology to help you grow as a coach from day one.
1. Fun Integration Theory
What you’ll learn: How to apply Fun Integration Theory to create sessions that are not only effective—but genuinely enjoyable. You’ll explore the science behind what makes training fun and how fun drives motivation, engagement, and long-term development.
Biggest takeaway: Fun is not a distraction from learning—it’s a driver of it. When you intentionally design sessions with joy at the core, players show up with more focus, effort, and consistency.
Purpose: This module equips you (the coach) with research-backed tools to make your practices more enjoyable and impactful. It ensures that your players fall in love with the game and grow faster because of it.
2. Growth Mindset
What you’ll learn: Having a growth mindset can boost the motivation of an entire team, and enhance resilience when faced with tough games. Learn how to instill a growth mindset into each of your players.
Biggest takeaway: A strong mental framework helps young athletes face challenges. It helps them overcome setbacks, so they learn to work hard and keep improving.
Purpose: This module provides you (the coach) with tools and strategies on how to create a culture of constant growth and mental strength.
3. How to Create a Session Plan
What you’ll learn: The step-by-step process on how to structure practical training sessions, so you can make every minute with your team more valuable.
Biggest takeaway: A repeatable process for designing impactful, goal-oriented practices.
Purpose: This module equips you (the coach) with the skills to run professional-level training sessions.
4. Types of Tasks
What you’ll learn: The different types of training drills and when to use them for maximum effectiveness.
Biggest takeaway: Understand how to design practice sessions that improve young player development at every level.
Purpose: This module gives you the ability to structure purposeful training sessions that drive results.
5. Offensive Tactical Principles
What you’ll learn: Key attacking strategies, movement patterns, and how to break down defenses.
Biggest takeaway: A structured approach to coaching offensive play that creates more scoring opportunities.
Purpose: This module helps your team improve attacking efficiency and decision-making in the final third.
6. Deffensive Tactical Principles
What you’ll learn: Essential defensive strategies, pressing structures, and compact organization.
Biggest takeaway: A clear framework for teaching defensive discipline and team shape.
Purpose: This module allows your team to strengthen its defensive structure, and minimize opponents' scoring chances.
7. Fútbol Formations
What you’ll learn: The strengths and weaknesses of different formations and how to apply them in games.
Biggest takeaway: A tactical blueprint for adapting formations based on team strengths and opposition strategies.
Purpose: This module teaches you how to select and implement formations effectively.
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CURRICULUM BREAKDOWN
Explore a wide range of modules designed to cover every key aspect of modern football coaching. Each module includes structured session plans, video guidance, and quizzes — all rooted in Spanish methodology and aligned with the FESPI model, i.e., Growth Mindset.
1. Attack-Defense Transitions
What you learn: How to coach players through moments of loss or gain of possession. Learn how to organize and react quickly with or without the ball.
Biggest takeaway: Transitions are where most goals are won or lost. Training these moments gives your team an edge.
Purpose: Train players to react with speed and structure in critical transitional phases.
2. Cohesion
What you learn: How to build strong team dynamics, promote unity, and establish clear group roles. Activities focus on collaboration, communication, and mutual support.
Biggest takeaway: How to build strong team dynamics, promote unity, and establish clear group roles. Activities focus on collaboration, communication, and mutual support.
Purpose: How to build strong team dynamics, promote unity, and establish clear group roles. Activities focus on collaboration, communication, and mutual support.
3. Conditioning
What you learn: How to improve players’ physical performance in football-specific contexts, integrating movement, endurance, strength, and cognitive focus.
Biggest takeaway: Physical readiness improves decision-making. Fit players think and act faster under pressure.
Purpose: Provide football-specific fitness tools that enhance both physical and cognitive performance.
4. Effective Training Tips
What you learn: How to run sharper, more efficient training sessions. Set clear objectives, plan with intention, link exercises together, and assign purposeful roles. Activities focus on clarity, flow, decision-making, and maximizing learning within limited training time.
Biggest takeaway: Small details such as objectives, organization, transitions, and roles can greatly improve session quality. They also enhance player engagement and improve learning outcomes.
Purpose: How to consistently deliver high-quality sessions. Plan clearly. Link exercises. Define roles. Focus on details that make training great.
5. Futsal
What you learn: How to improve quick thinking, ball control, creativity, and composure in tight spaces. Games emphasize constant movement, fast decisions, precise control, and clever use of space.
Biggest takeaway: Training in tight, high-pressure environments boosts technical quality. It sharpens awareness and enhances decision-making. These skills transfer directly to the outdoor game.
Purpose: Develop players who stay calm on the ball, think quickly under pressure, and make fast decisions. This approach will boost their overall football intelligence.
6. Goalkeeper
What you learn: Fundamentals of modern goalkeeper training, including positioning, reflexes, distribution, and game involvement as a first attacker.
Biggest takeaway: A great goalkeeper is a leader, a playmaker, and the last line of defense — all in one.
Purpose: Develop confident, modern goalkeepers who actively contribute to team play.
7. Modified Matches
What you learn: Creative adaptations of the full game to emphasize learning goals. You'll learn to design and deliver game-like scenarios with specific constraints.
Biggest takeaway: Game design is coaching. The right constraints create the right behaviors.
Purpose: Empower coaches to use modified games as a strategic tool for targeted learning.
8. Passing & Finishing Wheels
What you learn: Structured ways to develop precision in passing and finishing. You’ll explore mechanics, repetition-based drills, and progressive technical challenges.
Biggest takeaway: Repetition with quality builds consistency. Small adjustments in technique make a big difference.
Purpose: Offer ready-to-use technical sequences to sharpen execution in key areas of play.
9. Possession
What you learn: How to teach control, patience, and smart decision-making with the ball. You'll work on positional discipline and maintaining possession under pressure.
Biggest takeaway: Possession is more than passing — it's about purpose, patience, and positioning.
Purpose: Teach coaches how to structure possession-based drills that develop patience, awareness, and discipline.
10. Skill Games
What you learn: How to improve ball mastery, decision-making, and confidence through competitive, individual-focused games. Games emphasize technique, creativity, repetition, and solving realistic game problems under pressure.
Biggest takeaway: How game-like challenges accelerate technical development. Also, confidence on the ball and the ability to perform skills under real pressure.
Purpose: Develop players to be creative, confident, and technically secure. Use competitive skill games that connect directly to match situations.
11. Small-Sided
What you learn: How to create intense, high-touch environments that simulate real game conditions with fewer players and smaller spaces.
Biggest takeaway: Small-sided games accelerate learning and keep all players engaged every moment.
Purpose: Support tactical and technical development in dynamic, engaging small-group settings.
12. Tactical
What you learn: Core tactical concepts like space occupation, team shape, pressing strategies, and attacking/defensive structures.
Biggest takeaway: Tactics give structure to creativity. A well-organized team performs better consistently.
Purpose: Equip coaches to build organized, intelligent teams that understand roles and responsibilities.
13. 1/4 Field Games
What you learn: How to design effective small-sided games using limited space. Games emphasize scanning, quick decisions, and movement off the ball.
Biggest takeaway: Well-designed small-sided games can mimic match situations, even in tight spaces. They also boost engagement and enhance learning.
Purpose: How to use a quarter of the field to develop intelligent, adaptable players. Help them read the game fast. This way, they can make better choices and stay effective under pressure.
14. 7v7
What you learn: How to organize your team in a 7v7 environment. Coaches learn to shape their teams clearly. They use width and depth well. They help players make better choices during build-up, transitions, and moments of pressing.
Biggest takeaway: How to coach simple team principles in 7v7. Teach players to understand where to be, when to move, and how to support each other both in and out of possession.
Purpose: To help youth teams playing 7v7 develop spacing, structure, and collective understanding. Sessions focus on build-up play, transitions, pressing cues, and teamwork. This prepares players for larger game formats.
15. 9v9
What you learn: How to organize and coach a team in the 9v9 game. Coaches learn to manage team shape across three lines.
Biggest takeaway: How to coach collective principles in 9v9. Guide your players in understanding spacing, roles, and relationships. This is key as the game grows more complex and approaches 11v11.
Purpose: To prepare players for the jump to the full-sided game. Sessions focus on build-up patterns, transitions, pressing cues, and team movement.
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