At Star Player, we are dedicated to supporting the growth and development of children and young people, using sport and enrichment as powerful tools to foster both physical and emotional well-being. Our programmes encourage discipline, structure, and healthier lifestyles while also helping young people develop resilience and decision-making skills. By providing positive role models, particularly in communities where this is most needed, we create trusted relationships that allow us to engage deeply with children and generate meaningful insights. These insights enable us to provide schools, local authorities, and partner organisations with detailed feedback and recommendations that contribute to better outcomes for the children in their care.
In addition to 1-1 mentoring and sports sessions delivered both on and off-site, we provide flexible wraparound care services that support working parents and give children a safe, structured start and finish to their school day. Our provision goes beyond traditional childcare by integrating enrichment activities, ensuring children are engaged, supported, and inspired throughout.
We also deliver specialist and niche classes, and creative enrichment projects. For example, at Chelsea School we have successfully introduced after-school archery and karate sessions, which not only promote fitness and self-discipline but alsogive children access to unique experiences that build confidence and broadenhorizons.
Alongside these targeted programmes, our Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) camps combine physical activity with social, emotional, and educational support, ensuring children thrive during the school holidays. We currently work with nurseries, mainstream schools, and Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) across Hounslow,Surrey, and Bournemouth, and are expanding rapidly. Every programme is delivered in close partnership with families, carers, and school staff, ensuring clear goals, shared expectations, and smooth delivery.
Our Founder and CEO. The Best 1-2-1 Coach in the UK hands down, and he backs it up with every session he does. His passion and energy is contagious, and the children he coaches feed of it. He continually gets the best out of all of his players, and the development of the players he coaches from the first time they arrive to within 3 months and more is unbelievable.
Having been an Ex-Pro and in the Academy set up of various teams from a young age, he knows exactly what you need to become a pro and has helped multiple clients go on to sign for academies.
Ex Semi Pro footballer and academy player at Brentford FC. Coach Diop started playing football at the age of 8 and has not looked back since. In his own words ‘football saved his life’ and is one of the reasons he is so passionate about the game. He loves to see players develop, and has a very nurturing and caring approach to his coaching.
Having had a serious ACL injury that kept him out of action for 3 years, he had to adapt his game from a speedy winger to a ball playing midfielder. This really influenced his coaching and can be seen in the type of technical and ball mastery drills he loves to embed in the children he works with.
Coach Diop will also be the head of our mentoring programme with the BCP Council.
Coach Samurai is one of our best and has a great knack of building relationships with players. His focus as a football coach is to developing various aspects of a footballer's skill set, including technical ability, football IQ, decision-making, and physicality.
He aims to help develop every facet of their game.
He tries to instill confidence in all the players he works with whilst helping to foster a love for learning the game.
As a coach he aims to create a supportive environment where players of all levels, whether beginners or professionals, can thrive and reach their full potential.
His passion for helping young footballers succeed in the beautiful game comes from his own experience as a semi-professional footballer. He saw the flaws in his own game and aim to help those around him not make the same mistake and thrive in any scenarios.
An Ex Semi Pro footballer and part of various academies at a young age. Coach Zola is a football fanatic and in love with the game.
With a disciplinarian coaching style he gets the best out of his players and ensure they remain to a high standard and he demands they work hard throughout. Coach Zola is also multilingual and can speak Portuguese, French and Angolan.
Coach Freddie is a year in at Starplayer and has been recieving rave reviews from his clients.
He is passionate about being able to help develop the future generation of players.
He enjoys being able to build relationships with the kids and being a part of their footballing journeys and seeing them develop not only as a football player, but more importantly as a person.
He is currently playing semi professionally for Virginia Water FC on loan from Slough Town football club and enjoying the experience as it goes and has had spells playing for Beaconsfield fc, Bedfont Sports and Staines Town in the past
Coach Helder is a motivated and driven sports scientist with valuable experience in professional and semi-professional environments alongside university level knowledge, specialising in psychology, biomechanics and research).
Helder Lopes comes with this and much more to aid any athlete’s career & life.
Coach Yas is a seasoned mentor with a profound focus on the fundamentals and a genuine passion for football.
With a background in academy football during his playing days and 10 years of coaching experience, Yas emphasizes mastering the basics while instiling a love for the game in his players.
His approach centres on building strong technical skills and fostering a positive enviroment for youth development ,making him a standount figure in the coaching community .
Youcef’s goal as a coach is to ensure that his relationship with his athletes is engaging and motivating. This allows athletes to have fun within the football game allowing progression in different aspects of the game such as decision making, technical ability, and building confidence.
Coaching for him is all about learning to be patient with your athletes and being able to stay committed at all times so that your athletes never give up and fulfil their goal to become the best athlete they can be.
His passion and knowledge for teaching young athletes comes from studying football coaching at the university of south wales and also playing football himself. He has also obtained his FAW LEVEL 1 and Level 2. With his experience and knowledge he aims to help those around him to have success and more importantly to just have the best time in the football game.
