Our mission

At Connection Sports Coaching, our mission is to create a nurturing environment where participants build a lifelong bond with sport through positive and enriching experiences.

We are dedicated to fostering growth, enhancing skills, and inspiring a love for sport by emphasising connection, encouragement, and enjoyment.

Our goal is to develop not only better sportspeople, but also confident individuals who carry the values of teamwork, discipline, and passion into all areas of life in and out of sports.

The team

At Connection Sports Coaching, we are committed to providing high quality sessions that help participants to reach their development goals by developing confidence, commitment, control, concentration and communication.

Our coaching team are all highly qualified, hold significant experience, and have a passion to deliver high quality sessions to a wide variety of participants.

Connection Sports Coaching are committed to creating the safest playing environment for our participants and all of our coaches:

  • Have been fully DBS checked

  • Have completed extensive safeguarding training

  • Will complete session and venue-specific risk assessments

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Head Coach

Name: James Styles
Favourite Team: Man Utd
Favourite Player: Wayne Rooney
G.O.A.T: Lionel Messi
Coaching Qualifications:
UEFA C Licence
National Goalkeeping Licence
National Futsal Licence

I have been coaching for over 5 years and hold a deep commitment to continuous learning, participating in several CPD programmes that have taken me all over the UK.

I pride myself on delivering effective, meaningful coaching and have coached in a wide variety of settings to participants of different abilities and ages.

My coaching is aimed at developing players who are not only skillful footballers, but also well-rounded individuals, through noticing and nurturing moments of skillful play and giving the team the chance solve realistic in game problems.

I believe that sports provides a unique learning environment and, by providing an environment where players feel comfortable to express themselves and make mistakes, we can help to unlock potential in players both on and off the pitch.