A soccer school in East Pasadena for players 5 to 14. Two sessions a week, a written plan with your child’s name on it and your Saturday stays exactly as it is.
Your child asked. Or a friend’s child started. They need touches, coordination and confidence on the ball before anything else — taught properly, at a pace where they succeed early, by a coach who has read the plan before anyone arrives.
They play on Saturday somewhere and they are happy. But the same three kids always have the ball, and the practice in between is not really practice. Your player is ready to be taught. This is where the individual work gets done.
Volunteer coaches give kids their Saturdays, and youth soccer would not exist without them. But there comes a season when a player needs more than a good person with a whistle — when they are doing the drills and not getting better, when the same mistake shows up every game, when nobody has told them what to work on.
That is the moment families find us. Not because Saturday failed, but because a player outgrew what it was built to give.
Whoever is coaching. Ask any coach what tonight was working on and get the same answer.
In your child’s words where possible. Their name is on it.
December and May. A conversation, not a report card.
What to do on the days there is no session, written so a child can follow it.
Every coach through the FTBL coach course. Not volunteers, not parents filling in.
What changed since last quarter, in one place.
By evaluation, from the training group. A path, not a promise of a place.
What development looks like at each age, so you know what to look for on Saturday.
Written down, the same for everyone, told at enrollment.
A player who trains twice comes back before the last session has faded. That is where the work compounds. Once a week is real, and we say openly that it is not a development plan.
New Foundation rates take effect October 1, 2026. Families enrolled before then keep their current rate through January 2027.
Twice a week
The plan we recommend. Most FTBL players train here.
Three times a week
For the player who wants more — mostly Foundation Two and older.
Once a week
A five-year-old trying it out, or a child balancing another sport.
By evaluation · U7–U13
$250 a month. Twice-weekly training, a local league season within about thirty minutes of Pasadena, and the game kit and training kit. Referee, field and league fees included. Drawn from the training group — Foundation players first.
Three steps. Start with a free session — no cost and no commitment until you’ve seen how we train.
Your player trains a full session with the group we think fits. You watch the whole thing. No cost, no commitment.
Within two days a coach tells you one thing they saw in your player, where we’d start them, and why. No sales conversation.
Pick your days to create your weekly training schedule. We recommend twice a week, and we’ll tell you why.
No. There is no tryout to train at FTBL — Foundation is open to any player. Academy Teams are placed by evaluation, Foundation players first, and a player from outside FTBL when a roster is forming. No tryout fee, ever.
No. Saturday stays exactly as it is. We do the individual work during the week, and the season is when it matters most.
Players 5 to 14, in two groups. Foundation One starts at five; Foundation Two runs to fourteen. We place by the coach’s eye, not strictly by age.
Yes. Our staff is bilingual, and we work with families in both Spanish and English.
