Road to Rio: The Intermediate Skills Book

What is Road to Rio?

Welcome to Road To Rio — a Brazilian-inspired football journey designed to build confidence, creativity, and mastery with the ball at your feet.

Each book teaches five iconic skills per block, inspired by legendary Brazilian players. Your child learns the moves in class, practises at home using QR-code video tutorials, and tracks progress inside this book.

Coaches guide them on the pitch, this book keeps them focused off it. Every level builds toward the end-of-year tournament — where skills are tested, confidence shines, and progress comes to life. This is more than a workbook. It’s a journey into the beautiful game.

How it works…

Start earning rewards in three simple steps…

Train in Class

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Scan videos at home

Sit back, relax and wait for your friends to book a membership plan.

Track progress in the book

Sit back, relax and wait for your friends to book a membership plan.

Perform at the end-of-year tournament

When they make their booking, you’ll both receive one month for free. Hooray!

Four Levels

Our weekly football classes in London are all divided into four levels to ensure that every child plays within a group that shares similar abilities. 

While we do group students by ability and not age, we find that levels usually incorporate rough age ranges – Beginner (4-5 years), Intermediate 6-7 years), Advanced (8-9 years), and Proficient (10-12 years).

  

Although we group players based on ability and not age, we have found that our ability groups loosely fit certain age groups.

 

In this Beginner Skills Book, your child will…

  • Learn exciting 1v1 moves used by Brazilian legends
  • Develop faster footwork and sharper turns
  • Build courage to take on defenders
  • Improve agility and explosive movement
  • Start combining skills in match-style situations

With the basics now in place, it’s time for your child to step things up. 
Our intermediate classes build on existing foundations by teaching them how to create space and use the skills learnt at the beginner level more effectively and with greater confidence.  

Our Intermediate class teaches your child the following skills:

Weekly football classes for kids aged 6-7 years

Our Intermediate football classes, typically for 6-7 year olds, takes things up a notch. These classes are designed to teach your child how to create space using their skills and how to apply their skills in games so they can feel more confident using them.

Our Intermediate class teaches your child the following skills:

  • A range of ball mastery skills suitable for their level
  • How to create space with their body and skills
  • Core 1v1 tricks suitable for their level
  • Decision making including when and how to use skills against defenders

We take your child’s footballing development up yet another gear as they move into the advanced group. This is where children really begin to feel comfortable with a ball at their feet and where that Brazilian style of play begins to truly shine. 

Our Advanced classes teaches your child the following skills:

  • Physical movements and techniques focusing on speed, agility, and balance
  • Advanced ball mastery skills suitable for their level, including combinations of skills
  • Core 1v1 tricks suitable for their level
  • How to make better decisions with and without the ball

If your child has been with us from the start, this is where we bring everything together, and the next Neymar emerges! Our proficient group ties together all of the skills, tricks, techniques, and footballing knowledge learnt throughout the previous three levels while sharpening their problem-solving ability through more complex drills and training styles. If your child dreams of playing in the Premier League one day, they’ll need to pass through our proficiency level.

Our Proficient football classes teaches your child the following skills:

  • Higher intensity physical movements to develop speed and reaction
  • Complex ball mastery skills suitable for their level
  • Core 1v1 tricks suitable for their level
  • How to problem solve when under significant pressure

Your journey begins here!

The Intermediate Skills Book