Elite Football University

Publications for players at football academies. We don't teach technique or tactics - we teach a player to understand themselves on the pitch, to understand themselves in the complexity of the game.

Publications

Books for the youngest

First steps with a ball for children ages 4-7, read aloud with a parent or coach - simple games, playing together, and first rules. Older players won’t find it useful.

Player Publications

Game fundamentals, attacking, defending and high game understanding - the full series that teaches a player to understand themselves on the pitch.

Every great lion was once a cub that came back to fight after every loss.

Core philosophy of the series

The goal of the series is non-negotiable: help a child build a mental system that independently carries them through the cycle:

what do I see→what are my options→what do I choose→how do I execute it

These aren’t fixed labels - they’re questions worth asking yourself for real, in a split second on the pitch.

Every lesson in this series follows that order - perception, then decision, then execution, never the other way round.

We build on a few well-established currents in sports pedagogy: Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU), which teaches through play and decisions rather than isolated technical drills; Fitts & Posner’s three-stage model of motor learning, under which technique only becomes meaningful as an answer to a problem the child already understands; and Piaget’s and Bruner’s theories of cognitive development, which keep every lesson matched to what a child at a given age can actually process. We stick to this because we want a child to understand the game, not just imitate it.

English version - work in progress

This site is being built bilingually, with English as the primary language and Polish as the original working language of the project. Books for the youngest (Book 0) is now fully translated. Books 1-2 still only exist in Polish - translating them is a dedicated task in its own right, done with the same care for tone and age-appropriate language as writing the original. Follow the “See →” links above, or use the language switcher, to read the finished Polish text for those parts.