Live course · 6 sessions · Online · Early-bird open

The Spanish Way:
Youth Development Methodology.

Spain didn't win the world by accident — they built it, one methodology, one generation of academy players at a time. This course takes you inside that model: six live online sessions on the game model, positional play, microcycle design and the pathway from the academy to senior football, taught by practitioners working in Spanish professional football.

Format
Live · 6 × 2h · Max 40 · ~20h CPD
Investment
$227 early bird (then $247) · pay in full or 3 monthly payments
First cohort
Tue 20 Oct → Thu 5 Nov 2026 · 6 sessions across 3 weeks
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The problem

Everyone Copies the Style.
Almost No One Coaches the Method.

You've watched the Spanish game your whole coaching life. The rondos, the positional structure, the way an academy player at 16 already reads the game like a senior. You've tried to bring it to your own training ground — a rondo here, a possession drill there.

But when Monday rolls around and you have to plan the week for your age group, the reality is different. You know the players should dominate the ball, but you don't know how the exercise builds the decision behind it. You know positional play matters, but you don't have the progression that takes a 12-year-old to it. You copy the sessions you saw online — but you're copying the drill, not the methodology that makes it work.

The Spanish model isn't a bag of drills. It's a system — a way of connecting a game model, a weekly microcycle, and individual development into one coherent pathway. That's what travels. That's what's missing.

Your licence gave you the rules of the game.
This course gives you the method behind a world champion.
The programme

6 Sessions. From Philosophy to Senior Football.

Each session is 2 hours live, with structured pre-work and deliverables you take away — game models, session plans and decision frameworks you actually use the week after, not slides you forget.

01
The Spanish Development Model

The philosophy and principles beneath the style — why Spanish academies develop players the way they do, what they prioritise at each age, and the through-line that connects a first academy session to a senior debut. The foundations everything else is built on.

Deliverable: Development-principles framework
02
Building a Game Model from the Academy Up

How a club defines one game model and cascades it through every age group. Principles of play in and out of possession, and how to translate an idea of football into concrete behaviours you can actually train. Applied to your own context, not someone else's.

Deliverable: Game-model template
03
Positional Play (Juego de Posición)

What positional play actually is beneath the buzzword — zones, relationships, the third man, creating and occupying space. How to build the concept progressively for youth players so they understand the why, not just the shape.

Deliverable: Positional-play progression
04
Training Design & the Weekly Microcycle

How the methodology becomes a training week — session structure, the components of each day, and how to integrate the game model into a coherent microcycle. You leave with a planning model applied to your own group.

Deliverable: Microcycle model
05
Individual Development Within the Collective

How Spanish academies develop the individual player without breaking the team's game model — position-specific profiles, when to specialise, and how to design individual development inside collective training rather than bolted on beside it.

Instructor: Eduardo Covelo Mateo · U. Craiova
Deliverable: Individual-development framework
06
Game Analysis & the Transition to Senior Football

Reading the game the way a Spanish academy does — what to observe, how video informs the development plan, and how to prepare a young player for the jump to senior football. The same level of detail professional environments use.

Deliverable: Observation & analysis form
The instructor network

Practitioners. Not Retired Lecturers.

Two instructors confirmed for the opening cohort. Every module is delivered by a practitioner who teaches the Spanish development model for a living — the full line-up is finalised and shared with registered coaches before the cohort starts.
Andoni Bombin
✓ Confirmed
Andoni Bombin
Academy Director · Karpaty Lviv
Management · Methodology · Talent Development
Expert in academy management, methodology and talent development, with a career built inside elite clubs. Currently Academy Director at Karpaty Lviv, and previously at Athletic Club (Bilbao) and Independiente del Valle — two of the most respected talent-development environments in world football. He brings the Spanish development model as it's applied across Europe and South America.
Eduardo Covelo Mateo
✓ Confirmed
Eduardo Covelo Mateo
Academy Director · U. Craiova
Individual Development Within the Collective
Academy Director at U. Craiova, working the Spanish development model inside a foreign league every day. He delivers the module on developing the individual player without breaking the team's game model — position-specific profiles, when to specialise, and how to build individual development inside collective training rather than bolted on beside it.
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Confirmed before the cohort starts
The rest of the line-up
Practitioners from elite-academy football
The remaining modules are delivered by coaches who teach this development model for a living. Names are finalised and shared with registered coaches before the cohort starts — what we guarantee in every module is a practitioner currently working at academy level.
Format

Built For Coaches
Who Train and Work.

20h
CPD Total

6 live sessions of 2 hours + structured pre-work and deliverables between sessions. Around 20 hours of CPD-credited content. Live or playback within 90 days on the Sportrail platform.

2H
Method + Real Cases

Each 2-hour live session combines the methodological framework with real training designs and match footage from Spanish football. You leave with concepts ready to apply on Monday, not just notes.

6
Practical Tools

Development-principles framework, game-model template, positional-play progression, microcycle model, individual-development framework, analysis form. Real instruments of work — not generic PDFs.

Investment

Simple Price. No Tricks.

Sportrail delivers this programme to clubs and federations at full cohort rates. The individual $227 early-bird price unlocks the same syllabus — same practitioners, same deliverables — while we build the first international cohort on the back of Spain's World Cup. First cohort: Tue 20 Oct → Thu 5 Nov 2026, 6 sessions across 3 weeks at 9pm CET.

5 of 40 places already booked · First cohort starts Tue 20 Oct 2026
$227 Early bird
$247 regular price once the early-bird window closes · Max 40 coaches per cohort
Or split it into 3 monthly payments — choose your plan at checkout.
What you get
  • 6 live sessions (2 hours each) + structured pre-work
  • Watch live or rewatch within 90 days on the Sportrail platform
  • 6 templates and decision frameworks (one per session)
  • Sportrail certificate · DGERT + IPDJ certified body
  • Live Q&A with the practitioner delivering your cohort's module
  • Access to the Sportrail coaches' community
Register Now — $227 Early Bird

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Ride the wave: the first cohort is capped at 40 coaches and 5 places are already booked.

USD, exclusive of local tax (VAT / sales tax / GST added at checkout by Stripe Tax). 14-day refund window — see refund policy.
Common questions

Straight Answers.

Any coach who develops young players and wants to understand the methodology behind the Spanish model — academy coaches, youth head coaches, technical directors, and coaches at clubs building a development pathway. The language is technical but accessible; you don't need to have worked in Spain to follow it.

Hybrid. Each 2-hour live session combines the methodological framework with real training designs and match footage from Spanish professional and academy environments — analysis, discussion, and tool construction. You leave each session with concepts you can put to work the same week, not just notes.

Registration is open and you pay at checkout. The early-bird price is $227 — it rises to the regular $247 once the early-bird window closes. At checkout you choose to pay in full or split it into 3 monthly payments. Payment is handled by Stripe. There is a 14-day refund window — see the refund policy.

Yes. At checkout you choose to pay the $227 early bird in full, or split it into 3 monthly payments. Both options are handled securely through Stripe.

Two instructors are confirmed. Andoni Bombin — Academy Director at Karpaty Lviv, previously at Athletic Club (Bilbao) and Independiente del Valle, and an expert in academy management, methodology and talent development. Eduardo Covelo Mateo — Academy Director at U. Craiova — delivers Module 05, Individual Development Within the Collective. The remaining modules are delivered by practitioners who teach this development model every week, not retired lecturers. The full line-up is confirmed and shared with registered coaches before the cohort starts.

Yes. A certificate is issued by Sportrail — a DGERT and IPDJ certified training body in Portugal — covering roughly 20 hours of CPD content (live sessions plus structured pre-work and deliverables). The certificate lists the competencies developed.

Live sessions run in the evening CET (Lisbon · Madrid · Paris · Rome), which converts to roughly afternoon ET / midday PT for North America. Every session is recorded — if the live slot doesn't work for your week, you catch up on playback within 90 days. Exact times are confirmed with your cohort.

The methodology behind a world champion, taught by the people who use it. Early-bird registration is open at $227 (regular $247) — pay in full or in 3 monthly instalments. 5 of 40 places are already booked.