From the Bay to the Block: How Private Sessions in California Fund London Dreams

If you train with CBZ in the Bay Area, you’re not just paying for cone layouts and stepovers.

You’re helping keep a community movement alive 5,000 miles away.

In California, CBZ “In The Lab” Private Training runs across three main hubs:

• San Francisco – led by Coach Gamal

• East Bay – led by Coach Sydney

• San Jose / Palo Alto – led by Coach Thomas (with more coaches coming through onboarding)

• ALL OVER SEEN BY ASH WATSON

Parents pay for high-detail, position-specific, game-realistic training, and a portion of that income flows back to Casual Ballerz CIC in London, funding free community football, mentoring, and employability opportunities for young people who could never afford private training.

It’s not charity. It’s value exchanged in both directions:

• US players get elite attention to detail, smarter decision-making, and a coach who actually knows their name, position, and goals.

• London gets more stability, more staffing, and more chances to keep young people off the roads and in environments that stretch them.

Our long-term aim is that every private session in the Bay Area is directly connected to a specific impact thread in London:

• A session here → part of a coach stipend there

• A 3-day pro block here → part of a facility hire there

• A seasonal camp here → part of a Mini Ballerz programme there

We don’t just want people to train with us because we’re good at what we do.

We want them to train with us because their development is part of someone else’s survival story.

That’s CBZ Global:

One vision, two continents, countless futures.