Question for the youth soccer coaches out there.
What if you could unlock your team's potential in ONE season?
Keep reading if you want to level up quickly as a coach.
You love coaching soccer, and you love kids, but you’ve hit a ceiling in your ability to lead your team.
You feel pressure to help your team WIN and you don’t have all the answers.
But you also don't have TIME to go looking for answers.
So you’re looking for coaching tips and resources that you can implement -- quickly and easily.
What if you could...
Watch a few 5-minute videos, spend some time preparing for practices, and
show up feeling MORE CONFIDENT as a coach.
Introducing!
A foundational overview of key coaching principles and methods by professional soccer coaches from Spain’s top clubs.
P.S. Are you looking for a more comprehensive dive into coaching? Check out The Art & Science of Fútbol Coaching: Self Guided: a video course that goes deeper into the Spanish Methodology.
Yes, there is a way to unlock your team's potential, and it’s all about mastering the fundamentals as a coach.
This Foundations course will give you the fundamentals of Spanish Methodology needed to improve your team’s success on the field.
And it's not super complicated. In fact, there are only five steps:
-Job Mwanza
Coach and Executive Director of Rural Sports Foundation
Lesson 0: Growth Mindset
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!
Lesson 1: Introduction to Futbol Coaching
Learn the fundamentals of football coaching! Build skills in leadership, communication, and motivation. This helps to create a positive and effective learning environment.
Lesson 2: Control + Pass
Control the game by keeping possession, creating chances, and guiding its flow. Use precision, technique, and smart choices.
Lesson 3: Advanced Reception & Shooting
Master advanced reception and shooting skills. This helps you hold the ball better, create scoring chances, and shoot strong and accurate. You can do this even under pressure.
Lesson 4-5: Offensive Tactical Principles
Learn key offensive tactics: Ball Conservation, Orientation Changes, Rhythm Changes, Controlling the Game, and Wall-passes. These skills help break defenses and manage matches.
Focus on counterattacks, support play, finishing, unmarking, and using free spaces. These skills help break down defenses and create chances to score goals
Lesson 6-7: Defensive Tactical Principles
Master defensive tactics such as timing, pressing, and awareness. Also, focus on marking, shifting, and charging. These skills help you control space, regain possession, and boost team defense.
Learn key defensive skills like tackling, anticipating plays, and intercepting passes. Work on retraction and coverage, too. These tips will boost your positioning, help you regain the ball, and keep your defense in order.
Lesson 8: Developing Training Sessions
Discover how to plan and organize training sessions. Set clear goals, choose tasks, and adjust intensity for player growth.
Lesson 9-10: Task Types
Explore key soccer training task types. Use possession, small-sided games, and modified games. These help improve technical skills, teamwork, and tactical awareness. Boost training with passing, finishing, tactics, transitions, and fitness games. This will help improve accuracy, decision-making, stamina, and teamwork.
Lesson 11: Attacking Phases
Master offensive transitions and overloads. Use positional play to break defensive lines. This will help you create goal-scoring chances and better control the game.
Lesson 12: Defensive Phases
Master key defensive strategies such as pressing, marking, and anticipation. These skills help block attacks, regain possession, and maintain a solid, disciplined defense.
Lesson 13: Team Dynamics & Cohesion
Learn how to build a united, motivated team through leadership, communication, and trust. Strengthen team cohesion with practical strategies and exercises.
Lesson 14: Player Evaluation & Feedback
Discover how to assess players with precision. Use structured assessments, give motivational feedback, and track progress. This will help support their growth over time.
Lesson 15: Preparing for the First Training Session
Learn to structure and lead your first training session with confidence. Engage players, support their development, and build a strong team foundation.
What makes Foundations of Fútbol Coaching different?
Unlike other coaching programs, which focus only on tactics and technique – our program mixes Spanish soccer methodology with a growth mindset.
The Growth Mindset is used by the world’s top coaches and psychologists to help athletes and high performers achieve greatness.
By implementing a growth mindset along with gold-standard soccer tactics, you are giving your players the tools to grow and succeed.
Today's Price = $30.00
Hi, I’m Khalil, Co-Founder of the Virtual Fútbol Academy.
And coach for my son’s soccer team.
In 2019, my son’s U9 team won their league. As we prepared for a tougher division, I aimed to ensure the kids kept developing while enjoying the game. While I was confident in motivating the kids, I realized I wanted to raise my level of coaching.
I turned to a good friend, David Brown, a former U.S. youth national team player and founder of the RC Celta Academy in Philadelphia, a franchise from La Liga. He introduced me to a Growth Mindset practice developed by Stanford professor Carol Dweck.
This mindset helps the kids embrace learning while staying committed to improving.
But mindset alone wasn’t enough—we needed to sharpen our tactics.
This led me to learn the Spanish methodology. Combined with the Growth Mindset, the boys moved the ball smoothly and played more confidently.
By season’s end, we won the league again.
This became the core of our philosophy, showing that every coach can unlock their full potential by combining Spanish methodology with the Growth Mindset.
And that’s what the Virtual Fútbol Academy is all about.
Hi, I’m Dave, Co-Founder of the Virtual Fútbol Academy.
I've dedicated my life to soccer.
Not only by playing it but also by nurturing a deep love for the sport. As a young player, I played at the highest levels, earning a spot on the U.S. Youth National Team.
I found that being a player and a coach was very different. Even with success on the field, I only realized this after making the switch. I knew soccer tactics—I knew how to play.
But teaching young players how to think, grow, and love the game requires something else.
So, I began to learn again. I dove into Spanish fútbol methods and mixed them with Growth Mindset psychology. This approach, from Stanford, helps kids enjoy learning and improving.
I created the Virtual Fútbol Academy because I want every coach to access the same excellent training and insights that top coaches use.
My mission is simple:
✅ Help coaches become better teachers of the game
✅ Give them proven methods for motivating young players
✅ Cultivate a generation of kids who not only play excellent soccer but also fall in love with the game for life
-Coach Abraham
Coach at Lucomo Junior Football Club
⪼ I’ve never coached soccer before. Will this help me?
⪼ Will this help my team win more?
⪼ Someone else has a similar mini-course, but it’s cheaper.
⪼ I’m looking for something more in-depth.
Wondering if Foundations of Fútbol Coaching is right for you?
Foundations of Fútbol Coaching is not for you if….
>> You’re very new to soccer or you’ve never coached soccer before
>> You’re looking for an in-depth resource that can grow with you as your coaching improves (if this is you, check out The Art & Science of Fútbol Coaching: Self Guided course instead!)
>> You like to do things your way, and you’re probably not going to change the way you run practices
Foundations of Fútbol Coaching is perfect for you if….
>> You already know the basics of soccer, but you feel like you’ve maxed out on your current ability to help your team as a coach
>> You’re looking to improve your coaching and want to do it thoughtfully, while learning from the best
>> You’re looking for a quick win and a simple resource that you can quickly study and implement on the field
Unlock your team's potential NOW.
Are you ready?
