About Mint Football Academy

Develop. Inspire. Succeed.

Mint Football Academy was created with a simple purpose — to provide young footballers with a professional, positive and development-focused environment where they can learn, compete, build confidence and reach their potential.

We believe developing a footballer is about much more than what happens during a training session. Our programs are designed to develop the complete player, combining technical ability, football intelligence, physical preparation, confidence, decision-making, leadership and character.

Our goal is to create an environment where players are challenged to improve, encouraged to make decisions and supported throughout their individual football journey.

Our Approach

At Mint, we focus on developing players rather than simply providing extra training sessions.

Every player has different strengths, areas for improvement and long-term goals. Our coaching approach is centred around understanding the individual player and helping them develop the skills and habits required to perform in real game environments.

We place a strong emphasis on:

Technical Development

Developing confident players through work on first touch, passing, receiving, dribbling, finishing and 1v1 ability.

Football Intelligence

Helping players understand the game, recognise situations and make better decisions under pressure.

Physical Development

Developing age-appropriate speed, agility, coordination, movement, strength and conditioning.

Performance Under Pressure

Helping players transfer what they learn in training into competitive match situations.

Confidence & Leadership

Building resilience, accountability, communication and leadership habits that extend beyond football.

Individual Player Development

Every player is treated as an individual, with development focused on their strengths, areas for improvement and long-term goals.

Our Coaching Experience

Our coaching team brings together elite playing experience and coaching experience across junior, youth and senior football.

The coaching experience behind Mint includes:

• Former Australian Schoolboys goalkeeper, with international experience touring Germany, Japan and Fiji.

• Valuable exposure to elite football pathways in the UK, including development squads and trials with English clubs such as Norwich City, Macclesfield Town and Stockport County FC.

• National Premier League (NPL) playing experience in Queensland with Mt Gravatt Hawks, Wynnum Wolves and Eastern Suburbs, as well as MPL experience with Wyoming Tigers.

• FA-accredited coaching experience, including MPL coaching and junior coaching with Woongarrah Wildcats, senior coaching with Toukley Gunners, and U18 PYL Assistant Coach experience with Belswans FC.

This combination of playing and coaching experience provides valuable insight into the standards, expectations and challenges involved in progressing through competitive football.

That experience is brought into the Mint environment to help young players understand not only how to develop their skills, but how to apply them when the pressure is on.

More Than Football

We want Mint Football Academy to become a community where players and families feel part of something.

Football provides the platform, but the lessons go much further.

Players learn to:

Work hard.
Take responsibility.
Handle setbacks.
Support teammates.
Make decisions.
Challenge themselves.
Keep improving.

We believe these qualities help create better footballers — and more importantly, confident young people.