Our Methodology

  We provide a supportive, challenging, positive and most importantly enjoyable environment. We believe this is crucial to develop independent students who are technically creative and tactically astute problem solvers. We actively encourage our players to continuously seek and exploit opportunities to express themselves through the game.

The environment we provide is pioneering. Inspired by the academic works of James Gibson, Keith Davids and Nicolai Bernstein, we use a research-informed approach through Ecological Dynamics. Our Decoding process aims to accelerate the development of motor control and skill acquisition through the game. We use interleaving session design to increase levels of retention and transfer skills from practice to performance through.
 

An Adaptive Games-Based approach provides a live, directional and perceptually-rich learning environment that represents the game we play. Here empowered players use their creative freedom to explore and express themselves through the game.

Nothing is ever predictable, the game is constantly evolving and at points will become chaotic. We train our students in a highly intensive chaotic environment. This affords our students more opportunities to solve representative problems and make decisions under pressure.

At EVO we understand that mistakes will happen. Our coaches and students see these as an opportunity to reflect, learn and grow.

  Appreciating the works of Rinus Michels, Johan Cruyff and more recently Pep Guardiola, Evo’s style incorporates a high tempo technical possession based blueprint. All players are  interchangeable and given the freedom to express themselves without fear.

Our ‘Principles without Structure’ gives ownership to our players, guiding their own decisions within the context of the game. We use heuristics to give our players principles to organise around, not to make decisions for them. Football is complex and dynamic in nature, as such we encourage our players to think for themselves.
 

  We believe our coaches do not always have the right answers. Instead we encourage our players to think creatively as an individual and collectively. This allows them the opportunity to solve the emerging problems within an adaptive game-based environment.
 

  We acknowledge there will be days when the the scoreline will not support the process. However we will continue to focus on long term individual and team development, over immediate results. Failure is part of the journey, the road to mastery is long and hard, it will take years of dedication and most of all the
love of what you do.
 

• Are the students making decisions?

• Is there a direction?

• Does the session have consequence?

• Can you win or lose?

• Does it look and feel like the game?

• Is there enjoyment?