
PLAYER TRAINING
PREPARATION
Our highly respected expert technical coaches and clinicians have a long and successful history of providing world class trainings for players at some of worlds leading clubs and with some of the leading individual player trainers in world football.
We have permanent training locations in the USA: San Francisco/Silicon Valley (Northern California) and Orange County/San Diego (Southern California) as well as entire Europe, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, London/Liverpool (England) and UAE.
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Men’s and women’s professional, college and elite youth players from around the world including World Cup and Olympic players and Youth and Full National teams players have received our transformational training, sharpening, return to play/post injury recovery training and high intensity dynamic training including highly specialized technical training material and programs. See testimonials from players and coaches here.
We have arranged player training experiences, including preparing and training players to trial at: Chmel Blsany, Slavia Prague, Sparta Prague, Admira Wacker, Linz, Melbourne Victory, St George Budapest, Gold Coast Rep, Liverpool FC, Tottenham Hotspurs FC, Chelsea F.C, Southampton, Everton, Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspurs, Orlando Pride, Manchester Utd, Crystal Palace, Wimbledon, Glasgow Rangers, Queens Park Rangers, Hearts, Dunfermline, F.C Barcelona, Nice, Kingstonian, Walton & Hersham, Marine FC, Brisbane Lions, MTK Budapest, Melbourne Victory, Puskas Academy.
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Our master coach Gary Ireland (see bio) is a former assistant to the legendary Wiel Coerver and his assistant Michel Mommertz at Al Wasl in Dubai (see story) and was a master technical demonstrator at the highly regarded Vogelsinger Soccer Academy in the USA (see story). Gary spent a season as a technical coach at Liverpool FC Academy as the first foreign coach to work at Liverpool FC Academy and is a frequent guest of leading Hungarian club Puskas Academy where he trains U14-U16 Boys and Girls Academy players with the former Liverpool FC Academy Asst. Director and Manager John Owens, the Director of Technical Development of Juventus FC and Technical Director and Head of Individual Technical Development at Puskas Academy. (Learn more here & here)
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Gary has been commended by FIFA for his efforts on behalf of youth football, recognized by the Czech Football Association and has presented technical demonstrations for the New South Wales Soccer Federation, New Zealand Football and Queensland Soccer Federation. He has coached together with former New Zealand USA and Australian Women's National Team coach Tom Sermanni on multiple occasions and presented numerous coach education and player development clinics with with former Liverpool FC Academy Assistant Director and Manager John Owens collaborating on this globally renowned Principles of Play/Decision Making (Learn More about Garys work with John).
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He has contributed as a demonstrator to Norcal (California) Premier Youth Soccer League Coach Education bringing Liverpool FC Academy Manager to present Principles of Play/Decision Making and appeared as demonstrator for ACF Fiorentina coaching director and alongside former PSV, Porto, Liverpool FC Assistant, Manager and Red Bull manager Pepijn Linders (currently at Manchester City). In the USA Gary was guest trainer of the the University of Wisconsin Women’s and Men’s teams and trained the San Jose State Men's college soccer team. In youth soccer Gary has been a lead coach and demonstrator for some of the best talents in US youth soccer for 20 years regularly guest appearing at Laguna Hills Eclipse, Irvine Strikers and PSV Union FC.
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Gary has hired and trained coaches from many professional clubs and federations worldwide and has been operating his own football employment company for over 25 years. Coaches from Wimbledon, MTK Budapest, Puskas Academy, Olympic Lyonnais, Corinthians, Celtic, Spartak Moscow, Czech FA, Liverpool FC, Chelsea FC. have worked for and with Gary. at World Soccer, Academy Soccer including guest appearances from legendary players and coaches.
He created one of the most robust player evaluation platforms which has been integrated into Invictus scouting and player assessments. (Learn more)
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Learn more about Gary here
Email garyjamesireland@gmail.com
Call (650) 387 4128
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