THE PLAYER'S JOURNEY THAT STARTED IT ALL

A note from our founder & former professional soccer player Jeremie Piette.

DO YOU EVER TIRE OF ANSWERING "WHAT'S NEXT?"

As a professional soccer player trying to figure out “what’s next” and as a father & husband who needed to provide, I always wondered what I would do to make a living after I was done with professional soccer. Do you dream of playing sports for a living beyond the professional arena? I don't know that I did - I had many ideas, including how to coordinate coaching multiple teams like I saw many of my friends doing. But I was always interested in entrepreneurship. I came from a family of business owners and entrepreneurs.

While Global Fútbol Training (GFT) has grown to being one of the most recognized soccer training brands & we now have former students who are collegiate and professionals players spreading the GFT word, this was not always my story. Not that many years ago, I was in a tough situation. I was a professional soccer player and an expectant father without a big enough paycheck to justify moving my family around from country-to-country or state-to-state without enough time to plant deeply rooted friendships.

Since college I had offered training during my off-season and that particular off-season I was also working at Stanford University running soccer camps. I saw quickly how I did NOT enjoy coaching – I wanted to see IMMEDIATE improvement in a kid’s technical ability. I started doing private skills lessons as an aside job to the Stanford work. Still not able to see beyond the professional career, my mind couldn’t let go of “what’s next” as we prepared for a new baby. One day, after a private training session, a gentleman complimented my training & encouraged me that I could build something with this skill. Global Fútbol Training was born.

Since then, my training methodologies and techniques have been validated by collegiate and professional athletes as well as professional trainers and young clients. Parent testimonials and college scholarships for GFT players have only fueled my passion and the growth of GFT. I began recruiting former professionals and friends to train with me and one trainer, a college All-American & All-American of the Year exclaimed 3 months after working with me, “Man, I’m better [technically] than I’ve ever been in my life!” He said he wished he had had the training earlier in his life.

THE INCOMPLETE SOLUTION

At that same time, more people wanted me to help them. They saw the lifestyle freedom, the growing businesses and wanted the same for themselves. And I wanted to do for them what that gentleman in California had done for me – encourage. However, there were answers I could not provide to many former colleagues, teammates & college buddies – how to not only DO the skills but the business model that so many before me had tried and failed. These people were asking me to train and teach them in both as they looked for retirement options & alternative to coaching. It didn’t matter how many camps or clinics they worked with me they always wanted more..and I couldn’t give them more without taking away from my own family and work. I explored franchising, training seminars, and more but in the end I found that mostly people needed the encouragement and step-by-step process that I followed – what to do and not to do along with all the pitfalls I encountered along the way – and so ESBA was launched.

A CUSTOM SOLUTION THAT’S AS UNIQUE AS YOU & YOUR EXPERIENCES

My doctorate-wife came on board to help formulate a curriculum and training experience that would rival the top hospitals and universities in the country. Now I and the team don’t have to turn anyone away and can answer the specific questions for your specific sport OR business idea – from professional players looking for an off-season & retirement solution those who want a platform that has nothing to do with their name, just their passion. ESBA allows each business to be as highly unique & based on your unique personality and experience, approach and goals.