Football Pathways Australia (FPA) has been the passion and brain child of  Founder Aston Bell for a numbers of years.   FPA’s Founders ‘saw the light’ and realised a few years ago our Youth programs had some deficiencies, and so have set about doing something about it or at least contributing to helping improving some of the deficiencies with FPA’s programs in areas such as international tours, international competition, specialist technical coaching, player management and advisory services etc.
 
It is not difficult to develop the proper philosophy, merely sit down and watch the world’s best teams play football and you will notice that the Argentines and Brazilians, Barcelona and AC Milan, Mexico and Italy, all have players who are perfectly comfortable on and with the ball, play a game predominantly on the ground that is based entirely on keeping the ball to make the opponent compete defensively, and that the world's finest and most valuable players rely on technique, skill and a football insight (intelligence) developed over decades by exploring their capabilities in games of every kind.

FPA was established to assist Football in Australia, it’s respective State Associations and specifically players fill the void and accelerate the development of players from ages 15-19.
 
 

 
FPA's philosophy is not only about providing quality players with quality services, but assisting Australian Football to combat the rate of drop-out amongst our young talent and assisting to increase the technical ability of our athletes with our emphasis on Technique training being unique in Australia.
 
Providing Pathways for players that are not readily available or in place with our current development structures
   
Accelerated Youth Development
   
Exposing our talented youth to a higher technical level of competition
   
Improving/raising the level of a player’s technique and football intelligence
   
Quality personalized coaching
   
Encouraging natural ability and flair; and
   
Helping mitigate the drop-out from Football between the ages of 15-19 by providing an opportunity
 

 

 ASTON BELL - CEO & DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL

Aston’s contribution to FPA is not only his extensive football playing and coaching experience in Australia and overseas,

but his passion to help develop players and improve the technical ability and intelligence of Australian players between the ages of 15-19 compared to players overseas.

 

Aston also wants to make a difference to our young players and for them to have the belief, confidence and opportunity to play at the highest level possible.

 

Aston also brings to FPA many years of business, project and marketing management experience.
 

 ANDY WATSON - MARKETING MANAGER

Andy is a very experienced business and marketing consultant with many years of running national operations in the finance and car industries.   Andy brings a wealth of marketing & sponsorship management to the FPA Team as well as a wealth of football/soccer knowledge and experience as a player, coach and administrator.