The method
What every European club has, and almost no American academy does.
Every professional club in Spain has a coach whose sole job is to design and teach — weekly, monthly, seasonally — the array of training that turns a promising player into a professional. The concept is called metodología. Literally, methodology. In practice, an assortment of principles, philosophies and methods for developing a player and preparing her to win.
Our technical director in Spain holds the UEFA Pro licence and learned this system from inside it. Our players train alongside aspiring professionals from the day they arrive — because that is how it is done in Europe, and because it is how our first trainee was developed from the age of fourteen.
