About Us
Futebol de Salão UK is a football organisation that is made up of two branches, Socatots, for children 6 months to 5 years and Brazilian Soccer Schools for footballers ages 5 and up.
SOCATOTS:
SOCATOTS is the world's leading provider of play based, football-related development activities for young children aged between six months and five years. As many as two million children in nearly 60 countries have already embarked upon a remarkable adventure with SOCATOTS. Attending regular sessions with other children of a similar age, our students master both motor and social skills under the watchful eye of highly qualified coaches. Our method of structured play helps children learn numbers, colours, the alphabet and their body parts. At the same time we focus on building their communication skills and self confidence. The result is a balanced child whose motor skills, memory, concentration, and fitness are all enhanced.
BRAZILIAN SOCCER SCHOOLS:
Brazilian Soccer Schools is a grassroots football organisation with a worldwide network of coaches that has the unified objective of providing a unique but structured football education to children from the ages of 5-18. This is achieved through a specifically designed syllabus of 200+ individual core movements and skills, which are taught and evaluated using our proprietary method of assessment the Skills Badge Scheme. Futebol de Salão allows the core moves and skills taught and assessed in sessions to be integrated into the insanely fast, tightly compressed & highly pressurised environment of 5 a side football.
It is played on a pitch the size of a basketball court with a smaller (size 2), heavier (465g) ball that has virtually no bounce (10%). As explained by Emilio Miranda from the University of São Paulo this version of the game creates up to 600% more touches and served as Brazil's "laboratory of improvisation".
Our approach is long term and integrates the education of the technical, physical, psychological and the tactical elements of the game with every aspect geared towards the development of the elite eleven-a-side player.
Most importantly and key to our training programme is that we have never bought into the myth of natural talent or overnight success, what we do believe in is hard work, perseverance and practice from which talent can emerge when honed over decades.
We have always maintained the view there are no limits to improvement. With the right mindset and quantity of practice the Brazilian Soccer Schools method of training will inspire players to push beyond existing limitations and transform the way young players involved in our programme train, play and live the game.