How It Works.
Three steps. From first session to ongoing development.
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Book the free session
45 minutes. One-on-one. No fee, no card, no obligation afterward.
It is a real training session and an evaluation at the same time. Your player works; the coach watches.
The same day, the seven scores and the one priority arrive in writing. That is the baseline.
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Read the Evaluation Snapshot
The same day you receive a written Evaluation Snapshot. Two pages.
Baseline scores across all seven categories. What the coach observed. The Highest-Impact Priority: the single thing that will move your player's game the most right now. And one recommended path.
One recommendation. Not a menu of options.
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Train, and see it measured
The evaluation names one path. It will be one of these two:
Every private session is followed by a written Session Snapshot. Every 8 sessions, a Cycle Snapshot puts the baseline pentagon and the current one on the same page.
“Luka combines hard work and technical training in a fun and meaningful environment.”
// IN WRITING
What you get in writing.
Baseline scores, 7 categories, observations, Highest-Impact Priority, recommended path
The work, the observations, the homework, the next focus
Baseline vs current scoring, Identity Badges earned, cycle summary, next priority
What they worked on, what changed, what is next
Written, dated, and yours to keep.
// THE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM
Assessed. Purpose-built. Measured.
Every player who trains here is assessed before they are trained. What comes back from that assessment decides what the next eight sessions look like: which drills, in which order, under how much pressure.
Nothing is generic. Nothing is guessed. And every step of it is written down.
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Assessment
Seven categories are scored on a 1–5 scale: five technical (ball control, passing, weak foot, finishing, 1v1 duels) and two decision-making (awareness, decision-making). Physical qualities are observed and written up, not scored. Character is tracked separately, through Identity Badges.
When two categories sit close together, the lower technical score takes precedence. That produces one Highest-Impact Priority, not a list of five things to fix.
1
Foundational
2
Developing
3
Competent
4
Advanced
5
Exceptional
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Purpose-built sessions
Every session is 75 minutes and runs on the same four blocks: warm-up and activation, deep technical work, the daily focus (technical and tactical application), and the debrief with the homework demonstration.
The balance shifts a little by age band (U8–U10, U11–U13, U14–U16), because an eleven-year-old's attention and a fifteen-year-old's do not hold the same load. What does not shift: every block points back at the one priority. If the priority is weak-foot receiving under pressure, it shows up in the technical work and again in the daily focus at full speed.
75 minutes · four blocks
- 01Warm-up and activation10 min
- 02Deep technical work25 min
- 03Daily focus: technical and tactical application35 min
- 04Debrief and homework demonstration5 min
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Cognitive Load, set to the player
Every session is labelled Low, Moderate, or High: a measure of how much thinking it demanded. Low is isolated technique with no opposition. Moderate adds one demand: speed, a defender, a time constraint. High is a live read: scan, decide, and execute under real pressure.
The load is set to your player’s level and ability, not to a calendar. Complexity is added as they graduate from simple technical work: the same skill on its own, then at speed, then with a decision to make before the touch and the coach closing them down. The label on each Session Snapshot tells you how much thinking that session asked of them.
Low
Technique, no opposition
Moderate
One demand added
High
A live read, under pressure
// HOMEWORK
A named drill, exactly what to do, and how often.
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Homework
What gets assigned is exact.
// Sample
Wall passing
2 × 20 minutes before the next session
Focus on a locked ankle, toes up, and an open instep. Alternate left and right foot.
Last week: Juggling: streak of 20
[Completed]It is part of the system, not a suggestion. Eight sessions inside ten weeks is a sprint, and it runs on momentum: the work between sessions is what carries one session into the next. A player who skips it still gets better, just slower, and without the jump those ten weeks are built for.
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Measurement
The same test twice. The seven categories are scored on day one and scored again at session eight, against the same scale, and both sets sit on one page. Nothing is printed that wasn’t measured on your player.
The change between the two is not a guess. It is the same seven things, judged by the same coach, against the same standard.
// FRAMEWORK
Where it comes from.
The four-dimension model behind all of this is drawn from five academy frameworks and adapted for private and small-group training.
Four dimensions are tracked on every player: Technical (scored), Soccer IQ (scored), Physical (observed), Character (earned).
// FAQ
Questions.
What parents ask before the first session.
45 minutes, one-on-one. Your player trains while the coach evaluates seven technical and decision-making categories. There is no fee and no obligation to book anything afterward.
Most of the players we work with are 7 to 12. We also work with older competitive players. The work is the same, it just gets more specific.
The same field in Carlsbad every session. You get the exact location and a map when you book, and the confirmation says exactly where on the field to meet.
No. You receive the Evaluation Snapshot either way. It is yours whether you train with us or not.
Eight sessions, usually inside ten weeks. That is one cycle, and it is the gap between the first measurement and the second.
The evaluation does. Players with a specific technical priority and a deadline (tryouts, a showcase, coming back from being cut) get the Signature Cycle. Players who need consistent volume and a training environment get Group Membership. The recommendation is one path, named, with the reason.
Before any training plan exists, the player is scored across seven technical and decision-making categories on a 1–5 scale. That produces a baseline and one Highest-Impact Priority in writing.
No. The four-block session structure is fixed; what goes inside each block is built from the priority the assessment named. Two players in the same age group with different priorities do not train on the same drills.
The lowest scores set the shortlist. When two categories are close, the lower technical score takes precedence over the lower decision-making score, because technique is the constraint that limits everything above it.
The structure is the same; the vocabulary and the load are not. The balance across the four blocks shifts by age band, and the cognitive load is set to the player, so a fifteen-year-old and a nine-year-old with the same priority do not get the same session.
In writing, twice over. A short note after every session tells you what happened that day. At session eight the same seven categories are scored again and printed beside the day-one scores, category by category, on one page.
