Why choose UKCFDS
Through the Brazilian Soccer Schools and SOCATOTS programmes, UKCFDS has become one of the most successful grassroots training organisations in the world both on and off the pitch.
Success On the Pitch
Futebol de Salão initially acted as a springboard for the international careers of Brazilian football stars, such as Rivelino, Zico, Careca and above all, Juninho.
Since the UKCFDS exported these methods to the UK in 1996 many more players but also coaches have been positively developed and gone on to have professional careers doing what they love:
- Micah Richards – Former England International;
- John Farnworth – World and European Football Freestyle Championships, holder of 5 Guinness World Records;
- Ryan Fraser – Bournemouth FC, Scotland International;
- Indie Cowie – Guinness World Record holder, Football Freestyler;
- Marlon Fossey – Fulham FC, USA U20 International;
- Abby Towers – Sunderland AFC Ladies, England Ladies;
- Peter Pawlett – Dundee United, Scotland U21 International;
- John Bostock – Toulouse FC;
- Ben Wrigglesworth – European Scout, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC;
- Kristian Wilson – Performance Coach, OGC Nice;
- Cole Kiernan – Sunderland AFC;
- John Herdman – Head Coach, Canada men’s national soccer team;
- Peter Sturgess – FA National Development Coach;
- Michael Beale – First Team Coach, Rangers FC;
- Aiden White – Heart of Midlothian FC, Republic of Ireland U21.
“The whole Futebol de Salão thing really interests me because it is a different way of teaching kids to play the game. They’ve been doing it in Brazil for years and they are one of the best teams in the world, so there must be something in it for England, it could well be the way forward.”
“I cannot believe what I see with Brazilian Soccer Schools and SOCATOTS, it is amazing and it is something completely different and very special. It will have so many benefits for football and for kids in general. Socially, physically and technically I can see this, having such a positive influence for future generations across the world.”
Success Off the Pitch
On average each regional centre operates with 300 children attending weekly sessions.
Some of our more established and highest earning centres which have been running 5-10 years have between 650-1000 players attending weekly sessions.
These centres can turnover in excess of £200k+ per year.
Recently, our franchise was recognised at The Best Franchise Awards.
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Brazilian Soccer Schools & SOCATOTS
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The success of our programme
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Own your football coaching business
Take over more than £200k with the proven ICFDS franchise business model
About the UKCFDS franchise
Licence our franchise and benefit from more than 25 years worth of expertise
Brazilian Soccer Schools & SOCATOTS
Run classes across age ranges with SOCATOTS & Brazilian Soccer Schools
The success of our programme
Find out why so many coaches choose to partner with UKCFDS
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SOCATOTS is the leading football-related physical development programme for young children aged between six months and five years.
It offers a unique approach designed around systematic training sessions involving parents’ active participation.
SOCATOTS presents a complete programme full of popular, fun and engaging activities for children and their parents.
BRAZILIAN SOCCER SCHOOLS is the grassroots football organisation with a worldwide network of coaches that has the unified objective of providing a unique but structured football education to children from the ages of 5-18.
This is achieved through a specifically designed syllabus of 200+ individual core movements and skills, which are taught and evaluated using our proprietary method of assessment the Skills Badge Scheme.
Futebol de Salão allows the core moves and skills taught and assessed in sessions to be integrated into the insanely fast, tightly compressed & highly pressurized environment of 5 a side football.