Brazilian Soccer Schools (BSS) has been featured in a Sky Sports investigation which looks at ways of improving standards of coaching in England in order to develop home-grown players of the same ability as their overseas counterparts.

The 'State of the Game' series has covered all aspects of football and the final edition brought them to Leeds and to Simon Clifford, founder of BSS.

The Sky Sports team were so impressed with the level of coaching and playing ability on display that they decided to include the feature in this weeks' episode, with BSS suggested as a remedy to the growing problems in producing capable and technically-adept footballers in this country.

While professional clubs still seek to copy BSS methods, an example being Watford Academy's use of samba music which is an element of coaching sessions introduced by BSS, they persist in playing with conventional-sized footballs on large pitches using English methods.

On the other hand, BSS centres focus 90% of sessions on individual ball work and use Futebol de Salao, the small-sided game played on a basketball-sized pitch which is played with a weighted size-two football, as a medium for all sessions. Players are encouraged to develop close ball control and quick feet, techniques that academies continue to neglect.

Increasingly, BSS graduates are establishing themselves within professional clubs, with Micah Richards a regular for Manchester City and England while John Bostock (Crystal Palace and England U21s), Oliver Hotchkiss (Leeds United) and hundreds more are working their way through the professional ranks around Britain.

Simon said: "The Sky Sports investigation is just one recent example where BSS has been identified as the way forward for coaching in this country.

"We are a growing force and one that is increasingly adding evidence to our claims as more and more BSS graduates make their way into professional football.

"Acadamies continue to try to emulate our methods, but playing samba music is just an aesthetic improvement - there's a little more to it than drums and small footballs and clubs are years behind us without showing any sign of changing their mentality."

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