The FCI Pathway

Learn to see.Learn to guide.Learn to lead.

Three levels and sixty-four video lessons. One continuous method that starts with how you look at a single player and ends with leading a whole group through a season.

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Levels

Video lessons

Months access

What runs through every level

Four ideas that never leave

Each level applies the same way of working to something bigger: first one player, then his development over a season, then the whole group.

The coach is the instrument

Everything you see in a player passes through who you are. The pathway starts with you before it starts with the player.

Observe before you interpret

Describe what actually happened before you decide what it means, for one player and later for a whole squad.

Cause before intervention

The same behaviour can have eight different causes, and each one asks for a different response from you.

Evidence before conviction

Decide in advance what would show that your plan works, then go back and look again.

Full curriculum

Every module, in order

Choose a level and open a module to see its lessons.

Level 1 · See

Foundations of Player Development

€50

Understand yourself as the instrument, the person behind the player, and how to observe and interpret behaviour without jumping to a verdict.

1.1The Person Behind the Coach
1.2Your Identity as a Trainer/Coach
1.3Qualities in Context
1.4Values in Practice

2.1Understanding the Person Behind the Player
2.2Connecting with Players
2.3Designing the Team Environment
2.4Applied Assessment: Building the Foundation of Your Team

3.1Observation as a Core Coaching Skill
3.2Common Observation Errors and Biases
3.3Structuring Your Observation
3.4Case-Based Observation Assessment

4.1From Observation to Interpretation
4.2Behaviour, Cause and Meaning
4.3From Moments to Patterns
4.4From Understanding to Direction

You can say what you saw, and why you think it means what you think it means

Level 2 · Guide

Applied Player Guidance

€100

Turn a direction into a development plan, a conversation, a training week and a matchday for one player, and test whether your guidance actually worked.

1.1What Applied Guidance Actually Is
1.2From Cause to Intervention
1.3Priority, Process Goals and Evidence
1.4The Player Development Plan in Full

2.1The Conversation as an Intervention
2.2The Difference Conversation
2.3Feedback and Hard Truths
2.4The Conversation Across the Age Range

3.1Trust and What Actually Drives Players
3.2Confidence and Self-Belief
3.3Pressure, Fear of Failure and Emotion
3.4Self-Regulation and the Developing Player

4.1How Skill Is Actually Acquired
4.2The Individual Inside the Team Session
4.3The Intervention Repertoire
4.4Beyond the Team Session

5.1Before the Match
5.2During the Match
5.3The Bench, the Substitution and Minutes
5.4The Debrief, Learning From the Match

6.1Development Is Not Linear
6.2When It Goes Wrong
6.3The Evidence Review and PDP 2
6.4Transitions, the Handover and the Coach Who Keeps Developing

You can guide one player through a full season, and show whether it worked

Level 3 · Lead

Leading the Group

€100

Read a group, build a culture and standards that hold, lead the team on matchday, and lead your squad and staff through a full season.

1.1Reading the Group
1.2Roles, Status and Influence
1.3Subgroups, Belonging and the Edge
1.4Mapping Your Own Team

2.1What Holds a Team Together
2.2Roles the Whole Squad Accepts
2.3Norms, Effort and the Hidden Rules
2.4Collective Belief and Shared Understanding

3.1What Culture Actually Is
3.2Standards That Hold
3.3Safe to Try, Hard to Hide
3.4The Culture Audit

4.1Leading as One of Us
4.2The Captain and the Other Leaders
4.3Talking to the Whole Group
4.4Conflict in the Group

5.1A Plan the Whole Team Carries
5.2The Team Talk and Half-Time
5.3Momentum, Setbacks and Collective Emotion
5.4The Team Review

6.1The Player Who Tests the Group
6.2Arrivals, Departures and Selection
6.3Your Staff as a Team
6.4The Season as a Whole

You can lead a squad and a staff through a full season

How it works

Study it your way

Built to fit around a training week, so the material ends up on the pitch with your own players.

64 video lessons

Every lesson is a focused video of ten to fifteen minutes, with clear visuals and real coaching situations.

Fully self-paced

No cohorts and no fixed dates. Start today and work at whatever pace your season allows.

Applied to your players

Optional assignments at the end of each module, built around your own players and your own team.

12 months access

Twelve months from purchase, with an FCI certificate of completion for every level you finish.

What coaches say

FCI keeps our coaching approach consistent across the entire foundation phase.

Eskil de Koning

Head Coach & Foundation Coordinator, FC Utrecht

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Three levels. One route.

Take one level at a time, or take the whole route in one go and save €100.

One level at a time

LEVEL 1Foundations of Player Development€50 LEVEL 2Applied Player Guidance€100 LEVEL 3Leading the Group€100

Best value

The full pathway

All three levels, in order

€149,95 €250

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Level 1, 2 and 3 in one purchase
64 video lessons
Optional assignments with your own players
A certificate for every level you complete
12 months access

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Already own a level? The pathway price only applies when you buy all three levels together. You cannot upgrade by paying the difference, but you do get a discount on the following levels.