Simon Clifford

Simon Darcy Clifford is an English football coach, pioneer, and a businessman. He is most commonly known for introducing Brazilian training techniques into the UK with his Brazilian Soccer Schools. Clifford has worked in football for the last 30 years, from youth to senior and non-league to Premier League. He currently works with a group of highly talented youth football players through his one-to-one coaching company, Integer Football. His company is based in Harrogate/Leeds and has had some great success in producing professional players over the recent years. Clifford became the first coach to bring over and popularise futsal in the United Kingdom. His pre-school coaching programme SOCATOTS was the first such programme in the world to teach basic ball skills, movement and co-ordination exercises to children from as young as six months old. It is also a franchise and is running throughout the UK as well as internationally in places such as The Netherlands, South Africa, Canada, Dubai, Poland and Singapore. It grew to be in over 30 countries and is now one of the largest coaching organisation of the football world.