ABOUT MAVERICK FOOTBALL
Maverick Football offers quality coaching and training for male and female footballers and coaches. We provide specialised professional football programs in the form of private tuitions and small group sessions. Our mission is to develop, support and empower footballers (and coaches) and help them reach their full potential. Growing confidence and self-belief in players is paramount. We are particularly passionate about the development of female footballers. We do not promise or guarantee team selections or overseas trials but instead provide honest assessments of players.
Maverick Football’s philosophy is about developing and encouraging the ‘x-factor’ or the extraordinary in footballers. In the dictionary, maverick is defined as an “unorthodox or independent minded person”; or “behaving differently from the expected or usual way”. These qualities in football are considered positive and rare to find. We don’t want to produce robots; we want technically gifted, unpredictable players that can change the result of a game, whether that is a last ditch, goal saving tackle or an injury time volley into the back of the net.
From a player development perspective, Maverick Football train and nurture young male and female players to improve their football skills, athleticism and sportsmanship. Maverick Football is passionate about transforming today’s promising male and female footballers into inspiring role models on and off the field. We provide technical detail, creativity and game-like realism to each session, and mentor all players through the program. We prepare training sessions tailored specifically to the players position and skill level. We cater to footballers of all ages and experience levels.
Maverick Football cover the following key areas:
- Ball mastery/ skills.
- 5 core skills;
- striking/ passing the ball
- first touch/ ball control
- 1v1 attacking
- running with the ball
- tackling/ defending
- Possession and small sided games.
- Speed, agility and balance.
ANTE JURIC
Mentor & ConsultantAnte Juric has coached all levels of male and female football in Australia, from grass roots to elite, youth to senior. Ante holds an AFC/ FFA Pro Licence and is a qualified FFA Advanced Coaching Educator as well as being a qualified high school teacher.
Ante is an ex-professional and former Socceroos and Young Socceroos player. Having made over 400 first team club appearances, Ante’s professional football playing career spanned 12 years in Australia, Portugal, Norway and Malaysia.
Ante has been involved in elite player development for the last 10 years at various organisations including FFA, FNSW, W-League and NSW National Technical Centre. Having a true eye for talent, Ante has identify, developed and brought through a number of youth footballers into the Joeys, Young Socceroos, Junior Matildas and Young Matildas set ups including several that have gone on to represent the Socceroos and Matildas. Alumni footballers include Alex Gersbach, Joshua Rose, Joe Caletti, Aaron Calver, Daniel De Silva, Ellie Carpenter, Alana Kennedy, Alex Chidiac and Taylor Ray.
Former FFA (Women’s) National Technical Director and having coached various Australian Women’s National Teams (Matildas, Young Matildas and Junior Matildas), Ante is well versed in female football. He is considered one of the most knowledgeable and leading advocates of women’s football in Australia.
Between 2013 and 2016 Ante was a technical scout/ advisor for the Socceroos (Asia Cup and World Cup Qualifiers) and Matildas (Women’s World Cup and Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games). Ante’s knowledge, understanding and experience in technical analysis and team strategy is second to none.
