Coaching Matters.

LeftFoot Coaching(LFC) is a player development academy for soccer players to develop fascinating footwork, phenomenal ball skills and deadly ball striking abilities.

Through the Academy format players can have a soccer home that is based on a small group, long-term private coaching engagement with one coach who can progress them from where they are to where they want to be. The Academy is your own soccer community that's multi-gender, multi-level and mutli-aged. LeftFoot Coaching Academy is based within a 10,000 sq ft. facility specially designed for training soccer players to be great.

LFC is not a camp, clinic or club. It's a soccer home where dedicated kids come to train to get better, be better and know better without having to leave their community based team, but that in the process of being and becoming stars.

Coaching Matters.

We've all been places where coaching either has an impact for the best or for the worst with our children. What I try to create at LeftFoot Coaching Academy is a passionate environment where players can be challanged to go beyond the basics to try and then master new tasks and skills. I try to create great players, not great teams.

At LFC players are not satisfied with just doing the easy thing, we strive for excellence in everything: we compete, we study technique and we work hard. Players at LFC study and train for and average of 2-4 years in a dedicated environment designed around them, not team or club success, but player success. And the best thing is: you can stay at your community club and then still get 2-3 days a week of quality professional training without leaving your friends.


The psychological, physical, and technical tools that I provide my players and families have helped every kid take the next step in their development no matter where and what level they play. 

Having a coach that teaches a high level of technical quality, tactical awareness, mental skills and a passion for the game as well as cheers them on off the field is what players love when they come to LFC. 


Welcome to our soccer home,

Christian Isquierdo, M.A., Y.F.S., YSAS 

From Great Teams to Great Players

 State Champions 2010 U12C1 Girls

Several years ago I wanted to create great teams. I enjoyed watching the success of the players grow, compete and win tournaments. But then something happened-- I began to watch players that I had once coached successfully fall by the wayside with other coaches. 

Or get cut and thrown away. (Read No Throw Away Kids.)

And I started working with them on the side, growing them and still coaching teams. After awhile I experienced that you can't do both.

You either create great players or great teams, but the attention dedicated to building teams at young ages can hinder the development of the individual based on playing time, aggression, tactics and their effectiveness within the game. 

You have to teach to the middle. And in the 1:16 model of team development you can't always coach one or two players. And you can't create 15 center mids or strikers, you can only really develop two or three at the most.

In order to address the individual I knew I had to change gears and work with the most players I could outside of the club system--that if I was to truly change the focus to long term individual development and growth that I could not do that at any club.

I'd have to create something completely different and innovative. That's why LeftFoot Coaching Academy is for the most part: completely club neutral and changing how we develop players one player at a time.