Our Team

Jay

Turning to coaching over 10 years ago, Jay has become one of the leading coaches within the grassroots scene. Overseeing the development and progression of many youth players into Academy system.

Jay’s main role within Playerfirstfa will be to design and implement training programmes for all age groups, ensuring each player has a clear development pathway, enabling them to reach their true potential and beyond

Gavin

Gavin has been playing football since he was a child, moving to playing youth football and then selected to play Semi-Pro football for 20 years with trials at pro clubs.

Gavin is a fully qualified level 1&2 FA coach and “is involved with Queens Park Rangers and Tottenham” even though he is a BIG Arsenal fan!”.

Our academy Playerfirstfa is now my passion and with dedication, commitment and footballing values will ensure our academy is all about the player.

As lead coach Gavin will ensure our weekly academies and Elite programmes are implemented and the player’s development is monitored.

John

He is a FA qualified coach and also has passed a 2-year FA-mentored early foundation coaching course with accreditation.

He is a successful grassroots team coach for 7 years.

Specialising in ball mastery, technical training sessions and 1-2-1 sessions

John is very passionate about coaching the foundation stage of a player’s footballing journey, he also leads Player first foundation activities within our local communities and schools and girls training sessions.