Youth soccer teams in Pasadena for U7–U14: the teams inside the training club, placed by evaluation from the players we already train. For families who want real games and long-term development. Not one or the other.
The teams are one door inside it, for the years a player is ready to test the work in real games.
Start at five. Build from six to twelve. Prove it at thirteen. At fourteen, go compete with the best of them and into high school.
The player graduates from FTBL teams at Family Day in August after their U14 season and goes to compete at the club they choose. Training at FTBL doesn’t end there. The door stays open at semi-private for players twelve and up.
Academy Teams play a local league season: real games, real opponents, most within thirty minutes of Pasadena. The coaching doesn’t change on game day. We coach the player, not the position, and the result matters less than what the player learned this week.
The one your player already trains in.
After a coach has watched consistent work.
From players, families, and coaches.
For every player.
Plenty of FTBL players never join a team, and that’s fine.
A spot can’t be bought.
Training and games are local.
Of playing time or a position.
It’s for the families ready for it.
The same coach the whole season. Every coach knows every player by name, weak foot, and what they’re working on this month.
A written plan, reviewed each quarter. Not stars or grades. Year over year, you see the curve.
Training twice a week, one league game on a weekday, friendlies on Sundays through the season. We expect players at every session unless something real comes up.
No sideline coaching, no scoreboard worship. Read the reviews, trust the work, back what we’re building week to week.
Twice a week at The Lab.
Referee, field, and league fees included.
Game kit and training kit.
Plus Skills at Home between sessions.
Billed monthly.
No tryout fee, no initiation fee, no surprise team fees mid-season.
There’s no open tryout. We don’t evaluate a player on one nervous afternoon.
Academy Teams are drawn from Foundation One and Two. The training is the tryout.
How they learn, how they compete, how they treat their teammates, over weeks.
When a player is ready, we invite the family to evaluate with the team. Foundation players first. A player from outside FTBL, when a roster is forming.
New to FTBL? Book a first session in Foundation. Already train with us? Ask your coach where your player stands.
There’s no open tryout. The door is Foundation training, where coaches see a player over weeks.
Yes, when the schedule allows. We’re honest with families when the combined load stops serving the player.
Training at The Lab. League games are local; most within thirty minutes of Pasadena.
The player graduates from FTBL teams and goes to compete at the club they choose and into high school. Training continues at semi-private, 12 and up.
Yes. Our staff is bilingual, and we work with families in both Spanish and English.
