BOAS offers regular group training, private trainings and training camps for youth players aged from 6 to 16. BOAS also provides football training services to local and international schools in Hong Kong.

BOAS has developed its own particular training model with its aim to create creative and attacking mind footballers based on the BOAS methodology.

What makes the training so different at BOAS as we spoke with Fabricio is the way he trains the children. Fabricio commented on the fact that his training helps to give players a renewed sense of self-confidence, self-recognition, self-ownership, and a strong sense of team spirit. Players need to feel part of a team before they can play well and play their truest form. Players also need to feel happy. If a child is not happy then there is no way that they can play well. What’s more, being able to think fast and problem solve quickly is a part of the game and requires the player to be quite versatile. Fabricio puts higher priority on a child’s overall development rather than winning games. He believes that football as with studying requires that a child lay a lot of groundwork and requires lots of effort and determination. At BOAS FC, children have to develop their basic skills at a young age, before they can progress to being able to do higher level drills and games.

In comparing the players in Hong Kong, Europe and Brazil, Fabricio finds that Hong Kong’s players are trained and play with a comparatively “soft” approach and require more effort in encouraging the physicality side of the game. Players in Hong Kong are sometimes too focused on training to play only in a particular way and boxing them into certain positions. This makes it difficult to develop good players who can build on their creativity skills to play outside of their comfort zone when they are still young. Fabricio believes that to be able to play good football requires the player to have an all rounded development in many aspects including being physical, aggressive and creative. Oftentimes players in Hong Kong look to pass rather than to have a go themselves, and although the formation of a team can be well played, it is also the need to score goals to win and the fire within the player that ultimately makes the game exciting to play and helps to unleash the unlimited potential in a player.