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* Built for coaches who’ve completed The Art & Science of Fútbol Coaching and are ready to apply it on the field.
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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 training modules designed to cover every key aspect of modern football coaching. Each module includes structured session plans, video guidance, quizzes, and teaching scripts — all rooted in Spanish methodology and aligned with the FESPI model.
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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.
2. Conditional
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.
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3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
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.
9. 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.
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