Our mission is to help children of all abilities become the best they can be in every football playing country in the world. Through our franchising, we aim to create viable career paths in the football industry for passionate and driven individuals.
“The management clearly have a vision that is child centric and genuinely want to coach children in the manner that I have thought is more appropriate and relevant for many years.”
NEIL, WMF CHESHIRE
After failing to fulfill his ambitions as a professional footballer, 19 year old Chelsea Academy Coach Sean Conlon started his own football coaching business building teams for local grassroots teams and professional clubs.
In 2006 he set about “making footballers”.
Sean started his coaching company with just 2 children, but within the year he had over 100 players signed up to his classes. It shortly became the largest football coaching business in London whilst building links with professional and grassroots teams and attracting some of the best coaches!
In 2009 Sean teamed up with his brother Joseph, who had his own Design agency, and together the pair began building a brand which attracted footballers such as Jamie Redknapp, Nicholas Anelka, Didier Drogba and Florent Malouda to bring along their children to the company.
At this point, Sean brought professional business advisors into the organisation to take the company to its next level of growth. The professional advisors saw potential and helped the company to become a franchising business. Their investment and consultancy enabled the company to make necessary infastructure changes to grow.
We now have more than 2000 children attending our weekly training across over 20 venues.
WMF currently have 15 successful franchises in operation and are meeting all of our business objectives set out in 2015.
We Make Footballers aim to have 350 franchises in operation by 2025 and then expand all over the world.
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