Mumbai Metropolitan Region
As a professional football coach, I support players, coaches, and clubs to ensure training consistently translates to matchday performance. I lead and build high-performance football programmes that deliver player progression and coach development at scale. Across my 12 years of coaching, I have focused on solving a common and quite consistent problem: training that struggles to transfer under the speed, pressure, and unpredictability of competition. My work focuses on closing that gap in environments where results matter and learning still has to happen. This has included academy settings, where structure, clarity, and consistency are critical to long-term development, as well as First Team and transition contexts, where players must adapt quickly to first team competition and real-life demands. Across professional environments in the UK, India, and the US, my work has extended beyond coaching teams into shaping technical direction, aligning curriculums with the realities of a matchday, and building individual development processes that support competitive performance. I thrive in environments where expectations are high and clarity is required across teams and staff. My focus is not on ideology, but on building practical solutions that fit the reality of the environment.
Deliver national coaching licence courses within the AIFF pathway. Assess, mentor, and certify coaches while ensuring compliance with national governance and safeguarding standards.
Coached across the first team and reserve team to align weekly training, player roles, and match preparation with the competitive demands of senior football. In parallel, led the reserve team programme as a transition environment, focusing on accelerating readiness for first team competition through role clarity, physical robustness, and decision-making under pressure. Key Outcomes: Contributed to first team league survival despite bottom-tier budget and limited squad depth, and increased residential academy intake by 295 percent within six months through clearer pathways and programme credibility.
Led the technical alignment of a multi-centre academy, creating shared principles, progression logic, and coach development processes to ensure consistency between training, individual development, and match play across age groups. Worked closely with coaches to translate curriculum intent into age-appropriate training and competition behaviours, supported by regular feedback loops and mentoring structures. Key Outcomes: Achieved AIFF 3-star academy accreditation, mentored 14 coaches to complete AFC ‘B’, AFC ‘C’ and AIFF ‘D’ coaching badges, and supported clearer progression pathways from academy to senior football contexts.
Contributed to the design and delivery of grassroots coach education programmes in California, working in partnership with AYSO to support coach learning across early and youth development contexts. Worked directly with Level 1 and Level 2 coaches to develop planning, reflection, and decision making skills, with a focus on age appropriate practice design rather than prescriptive session templates. Key Outcomes: Strengthened regional coach capability through structured education programmes, supporting more consistent training environments and improved alignment between learning objectives and on pitch practice.
Coached within the Professional Development Phase at Cambrian United FC, working across U15 and U19 squads competing in the FAW Cymru Premier Development League and FAW Cymru Youth League South. Designed and led training aligned to match demands, balancing individual development priorities with collective performance requirements in a nationally structured academy environment. Held responsibility for matchday preparation, squad selection, and in game decision making, translating weekly training into competitive behaviours under pressure. Key Outcomes: Supported the progression of five players into full time professional academies, including Cardiff City FC, Swansea City FC, Bristol Rovers FC and Newport County AFC, through integrated individual development planning within team contexts.