Expert articles, pro tips and guides for parents of young athletes.
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Many people overestimate the importance of motivation and underestimate the power of daily habits. Lasting change usually comes from small, regular actions rather than one-off bursts of effort.
A break from training doesn’t mean a break from development. Now is the time to work on the areas there is often no room for during the season.
Have an idea for a project but not sure how to fill in one of the sections? That’s NOT A PROBLEM!
A simple tool from a breathing coach to help you recover after training!
Looking for business support for your academy? Stop selling just the space on your shirts. Offer a local company a CSR project that solves real problems!
Discover the Free to Dream dietitian’s recipe for a homemade isotonic drink!
The assessment criteria are, in practice, the “instructions” experts use to score your project. If you write your application first and check the criteria afterwards, key elements are often missing.
Working from morning till night, yet the bank balance doesn’t show it. Is the problem really a lack of money in football, or a lack of control over it?
Your role is not to decide for your child or paint gloomy scenarios, but to open doors and show them what is possible. Pressure breeds resistance. Inspiration breeds curiosity.
Want to win over your local authorities, but it just isn’t working? Try a different approach!
Why do some clubs regularly attract business partners while others, at a similar sporting level, still rely only on parents’ fees and grants? Three changes in approach that make the difference.
Sleep is physical recovery, but it is also time for the nervous system to settle after the stress and emotions of a match. Here is a simple bedtime breathing technique.
Everything goes well in training, but in matches come the mistakes and the stress? Discover the psychological reasons behind children’s dips in form and learn how to help them.
Do you know what most often makes parents stay with an academy for longer? The relationship, and the sense that they are part of something bigger.
Public grants are one of the key sources of funding for sports clubs. Yet many organisations make the same mistake: they start writing the application before they have a well-thought-out project.
Football is one of the most physically and mentally demanding sports. To perform at your best on the pitch, training well is not enough – eating well matters just as much.
Wondering what to eat after training? Try this simple recipe from the Free to Dream dietitian!
All too often, choosing an academy comes down to the logo and “tradition”. But it isn’t the club itself that trains your child – a specific person does.
Your child trains regularly and gives their all, yet looks exhausted after barely fifteen minutes of a match? It may not be fitness – the cause often lies elsewhere.
Every stray pass, lost ball or wrong decision is a natural part of the game, not proof of weakness. What really matters is your reaction – and how quickly you get back into the game.
The first is “yesterday”: always looking back. The second is “tomorrow”: telling ourselves every day that we’ll start tomorrow. Both can keep us from living in the present.
Why do some football academies attract the best coaches and sponsors while others struggle with constant turnover? Here is how to build a mission, vision and values that set yours apart.
A key topic! The right “fuel” can be the difference between an all-out sprint in the 80th minute and running out of steam by half-time.
For a child, defeat is not just a “lost game” – it often brings big emotions. Our role as adults is not to shield children from every mistake, but to teach them to carry on with their heads held high.
Training four times a week, away matches, and on top of that a maths test and a set book to read by tomorrow…
A winning mentality in a 12-year-old: it’s more than just wanting to win! ⚽
For a young athlete, an injury is one of the hardest moments.
In today’s sport, talent is the foundation, but recognition and a professional image are what accelerate a career.
Scouting in youth football has gathered plenty of myths. Many parents dream of their child being “discovered” by a big club, but often don’t know what the process really looks like.
Today we see him with trophies, in the spotlight, as one of the best strikers in history.
