COACHING & DEVELOPMENT
Football Focus International Pty Ltd (FFI) offers specialist coaching & development services for primary schools, secondary schools and grass roots community clubs as follows:-
- Primary Schools - Fun, Fitness and Football Programs
- Secondary Schools - Age Group Coaching
- Community Clubs - Age Group Coaching, Skills Development & Grading Days
David O’Keefe has been a fully accredited coach with Football Federation Australia since 1990 and therefore provides a wealth of coaching knowledge and experience gained locally and abroad. David has travelled extensively throughout Europe over the past 15+ years and during that time has been fortunate enough to visit and learn from some of the best academy and 1st team coaches at clubs such as Liverpool FC, Manchester United FC, Chelsea FC, Cardiff City FC, PSV, Feyenoord and more recently with Hamburg FC and Basel FC.
His ability and reputation to mentor and develop young players is well documented with many of the players he's coached over the past 20 years (grass roots & elite players) still maintaining contact with him well beyond their junior playing days and this is a direct result of the positive impact he's had on their development both on/off the field. David is constantly updating his knowledge and in doing so has developed some very strong personal and working relationships with internationally recognised academy coaches, 1st team coaches and technical directors at some of the above mentioned clubs as a direct result.
Andrew Goldrick is a fully qualified PDHPE teacher and has been teaching children for the past 5 years. He has developed a passion for helping students improve their health and fitness and in particular allowing students to express themselves through physical activity (Football). This experience has strengthened his coaching ability and given him a vast array of skills to help students achieve their goals and give piece of mind to parents and teachers regarding the safety and wellbeing of their children.
Andrew has also been involved with football for 20 years as a player for the likes of Kenthurst FC, Gladesville-Hornsby FC, Northern Spirit FC (where he was club captain) and more recently with Normanhurst Eagles FC both as a player and as a coach. Andrew is an accredited coach and has been coaching successfully for the past 3 years at Barker College and in 2011 was appointed ‘Director of Coaching’ for Normanhurst Eagles FC where he’s been coaching for several years at junior level.
FFI has recently been appointed Talent Scout for a major european club and this once again reinforces the level of trust David has developed with his contacts overseas over the course of the past 10+ years. This is an exciting phase for the business and it also reinforces our motto of continually striving to "open the door to opportunity" for footballers in Australia (boys, girls, men and women).
Current FFI clients include:-