Observe
Match footage, coach feedback, what the position asks. What actually happened?
Player development for youth soccer clubs
One objective at a time. Measured. With the framework behind it.
Futbolito gives every player a written development objective their coach picked from a canonical model, a countable measure, and a five-stage loop to run it through. The model is aligned to the U.S. Soccer Player Development Framework, and the edition is recorded on every record, so a plan written this season still reads the same in five years.
Retrieval, not inventionObjectives are selected from the model, never written from scratch. Off-model objectives cannot be saved.
Guardian firstNo development data exists until a guardian has recorded consent. Deletion on departure is complete within 30 days.
Edition recordedEvery objective, session and game model carries the model and alignment versions it was written under.
How it works
The loop a player runs with their coach.
Five stages, repeated. Each pass through the loop is counted, each measurement is logged, and the number is the truth.
Assess
Rate against six qualities and the position's tasks. Two strengths, two gaps, with evidence.
Define
One gap becomes one objective from the canonical set, with a countable measure and a deadline.
Train and measure
Sessions, drills and the weekly individual programme, logged every time.
Reflect
Numbers against the target. What worked, what did not, what changes next cycle.
The model
Six qualities. Four moments. One canonical set of objectives.
The Futbolito Development Model is our own taxonomy, written in our own words, with every node aligned by citation to the U.S. Soccer Player Development Framework. Position tasks, team principles and development objectives all carry stable ids, so a coach composes a plan from the model instead of describing one from memory.
Six qualities
Reading and deciding, ball craft, athletic movement, competitive drive, ownership, adaptability. Rated by the player and by the coach.
Four moments
With the ball, just lost it, without the ball, just won it. Every principle, task, session and game model is filed under one.
A bundled library
Drills and small-sided games tagged by quality, moment and position, plus a weekly individual programme across five tiers.
For clubs
Built for the people who run a club, not for a web team.
Roles that match the touchline
Club admin, coach, assistant, player, parent. Coaches author. Assistants log. Parents consent and read. Nobody sees what their role does not need.
Licensed coaches, by design
A coach's licence is entered by the coach and attested by the club admin. The alignment layer of the model is visible only to a coach with a verified licence on file.
Game model and six-week plan
Each team keeps a game model composed from the same principles the objectives come from, and a six-week mesocycle that pulls sessions and individual work in one direction.
For parents
Nothing is recorded about your player until you say so.
The club creates your guardian account first. You record consent from your own sign-in. Only then can a coach write a single objective. You can read the plan at any time, and when your player leaves the club you can request deletion, which is complete within 30 days and includes the logins.
Bring your club onto Futbolito.
Access is by conversation, not sign-up. Tell us about your club and we will take it from there.