Achieve technical excellence quickly and with amazing results

Technique is not innate talent: it is method, training and determination. With my method you learn to master the ball in every game situation.

Hi, this is Ivan Zauli.

My teaching method will help you achievetechnical excellence by learning each individual skill through movement segmentation.

With “The Road of Champions,” I trained players who now play in:

Juventus F.C.
A.C. Cesena
Brescia Football

Many coaches, as a result of this approach, have improved their technical and motivational skills and achieved concrete results with their athletes.

So if you are also...

Young soccer player

I help you improve your technique, feel more confident and master your game on the court.

Coach

I teach you a clear and practical method for growing your players faster and with real results.

Want to improve your technical skills or take your training to a new level?

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My method

The Road of Champions was born from 15 years of field observation and is based on a scientific and progressive approach to develop all fundamental technical skills.

I guide you step by step through:

Analytical exercises to isolate each technical gesture.
Situational games to apply techniques in competition contexts.
Targeted repetitions to assimilate each skill naturally and instinctively.

I analyze each of your technical gestures.
I clearlyexplain each movement.
I demonstrate each exercise to facilitate learning.
I constantlycorrect to guide you toward continuous improvement.

What you get:

Improve your technique quickly with amazing results.
You increase confidence in the field and learn how to make quick and effective decisions.
You develop creativity and resourcefulness, making each of your plays more impactful.
You will discover the pleasure of improving yourself day by day, having fun and exceeding your limits.

About Me

I started playing soccer in Borello but I was there for a short time and after that I moved to the youth sector of Cesena where, from the first year Pulcini up to the Allievi, I was lucky enough to have Ivan Zauli as my technique teacher. Thanks to his working method, La Strada Dei Campioni, I grew a lot both in the aspect of technical skills and human making me take the path of a professional footballer right from the start. The path made with the method La Strada Dei Campioni has been fundamental in my growth by putting together fun and work(I personally could not wait to get to the field) and now I am realizing a dream I had since I was a child that is to play with real champions.

I arrived in Cesena in 2006 from Marotta, in these years I have been fortunate to know managers and coaches who have made me grow both technically and morally, among them one who played a fundamental role in my technical maturation was Ivan Zauli. Over the years, up to the students, he has offered workouts that are always different and never boring: I learned to handle the ball with both feet and have full command of my body; his method is really innovative, and despite some grooming with Ivan I really enjoyed it. If I was lucky enough to make my debut in the big leagues, part of the credit is definitely due to my friend Ivan.

I really feel like recommending CHAMPIONS ROAD and its courses to all those coaches who put as their first goal the growth of kids through self-improvement. On the other hand, I do not recommend it to all those coaches whose only goal is the weekend result. I am convinced that a coach and especially a youth sector manager, must have, as Ivan always says, the "patience of the farmer," who plants the seed, patiently cultivates it and after some time reaps the fruits of his labor.

I learned about this method of teaching soccer technique a little less than 10 years ago, when Ivan started a technique project with Imolese Calcio, a club where I played. Now in my late twenties I realize how behind every technical gesture, behind every action done mechanically endlessly during the exercises there was a very specific reason,a correct body posture and gesture,that once assimilated allows you on the green rectangle to have substantial advantages.

With Ivan Zauli and his working method La Strada Dei Campioni (The Road Of Champions), I grew significantly in the technical aspect and at the same time on my self-esteem. An intense, hard and at the same time very entertaining educational path, thanks to his awareness and ball control exercises done from the Esordienti to the Allievi in the Cesena Youth Sector. Now I can notice the results of the work done and be proud that those exercises will serve me well as I continue my career.

I had the pleasure of getting to know Ivan on a trip to China, made in order to make the technicians there understand the principles and methods of "our" football culture. I was able to appreciate Ivan's human qualities and rigorous professional competence, and the great effectiveness of his working method, as seen and applied directly in the field.

I had the opportunity to meet Ivan in 2013 and to appreciate, during an internship for coaches, both the preparation as a "field" technician, able to explain and demonstrate correctly the technical gesture, and the consistency and linearity of the educational path he proposes. Ivan later worked as a technical contributor on my staff during the 2013/2014 season