Jacob B-Clark

2005 born Jacob Beaumont Clark is already making waves in the England set up. Originally signing for Man Utd he has since moved across the North West to Everton where is one of the stand out players in their academy. Jacob is a winger, with sharp

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Leo Castledine

After 7 years of playing at AFC Wimbledon, Leo made the short transfer to Cobham, after most of the top teams in England had tried to sign the 14 year old talent. Leo had become the youngest ever player to play for the Dons 18s and

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Jobe Bellingham

It would be very easy to rewrite Jude’s profile, as the older brother, Jude has flown through the ranks at Birmingham and is now establishing himself at Dortmund in Germany. Jobe’s early years story will follow the same path, signing at U9 for Birmingham, and becoming

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Zion Atta

Zion has already hit the headlines, first moving at 13 from Millwall to Crystal Palace for around £60k, and now with a host of clubs from England and Europe chasing him before he can sign a professional contract. Zion has developed over the past couple of

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Why Zoom will help you develop

At the risk of being repetitive, I wanted to continue to talk about, REPETITION! Yesterday gave an overview of why repetition can help improve certain areas of performance. Repetition will enable young people to be able to commit football skills to muscle memory. This over time

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Repetition! Repetition! Repetition!

Today, England entered it’s second lockdown of 2020, and at ProFormance training has gone back online. Whilst the first choice would be training live in person, that is not possible, so we will happily work with players via Zoom. I heard one coach say, they wouldn’t

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Luca Connell

Luca signed for Bolton at U9, at the time, the club were in their 10th season in a row in the Premier League and comfortable – the family could hardly have imagined what would happen to the club over the following seasons. But it did not

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Arvin Appiah

Appiah was born in Amsterdam, before moving to Nottingham in England when he was six-years old, by 9 he was signed at Nottingham Forest. He made his debut for forest at 17, scoring as a late subsitute. But with a change of manger appearances were limited,

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Ethan Laird

Ethan signed for Man Utd at 9, a young born player, he’s always been a talented but has had to work hard to catch up lads nearly a year older than him. In the end though it’s often a massive benefit for those who make it,

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