Our Mission:
To Help Every Athlete Reach Their Full Potential
Our mission is to help every athlete reach their full potential.
Our vision is to make mobile learning so good that you do not need to be in a physical sports academy to become a professional athlete.
Our purpose is to be a world class sports academy in your pocket.
With our tailored online football academy available as a mobile app, our Elite program and our In-residence training camps, we are giving the whole world access to coaching resources that were once available only to players in professional academies.
Join our mission to make the world a more empowered place than ever before and help us reach our goal of positively impacting 1 million players through the Train Effective platform by 2021.
Content Creators
RIO FERDINAND
Manchester United & England Legend
STEPHEN CORNS
1st Team Analyst for Stoke City FC
NICK HARVEY
Ex-Strength Coach at Southampton FC
TOM COOPER
Reading FC Analyst
MARTIN EDWARDS
Ex-QPR Goalkeeping Coach
RICHARD ALLEN
Nottingham Forest Analyst
The Team
The Train Effective team has been built with the shared values of a passion for the beautiful game and a mission to improve education. Our team members are from all over the world and were either early subscribers that believed in the vision or stumbled across Effective on various startup sites.
NICK HUMPHRIES
Founder & CEO
THOMAS ACHTEL
Head of Product & Strategy
JOHN MOSES
Head Coach
CORBI STIMMER
Business Development Manager
CLAIRE DICKHOFF
Marketing Manager
LUCAS ZANANDREA
Director of Photography
Player Success Agents
Our Player Success Agents are a team of ex-professionals, coaches, scouts, sports psychology graduates
and experts in helping players reach the next level in their development!
SAM SHABAN
Sam is a Former Watford FC
academy player.
He has been playing
professional football for the
last 6 years and has a lot of
experience playing in different
countries around the world.
AL AREVALO
Al holds an international coaching license by the ATFA/AFA Argentine
football federation.
He has been working
in the football industry
for over 18 years now.
RYAN SKARDA
As a recent Sports Psychology
graduate and a qualified
Personal Trainer, Ryan has
extensive knowledge of what
it takes to succeed in sports.
He also played and coached in Ireland, England, Australia and South Africa.
Train Effective Head Coaches
SIMON O'NEILL
National Scout and Head Coach at ProFormance Global
HARRY O’RIORDAN
Co-Director of
ProFormance Global
and ProFormace Pathways
BENJAMIN ROBERTS
Director of the Arsenal
Soccer School programmes in Hertfordshire & Essex
FELIPE CHEBEL
Arsenal Academy Coach
& Headcoach at
Wycombe Wanderers F.C.
JOHN MOSES
UEFA B Certified Coach
and former professional & Liberian national player
SAMIR CARRUTHERS
Ex-Professional Player
(Aston Villa, Sheffield United, Cambridge United)