The work

The work nobody sees.

Almost none of this shows up on a scoreline. It’s where the next level actually gets built — touches, strength, fuel, recovery, and the routine that holds it together. More detail will follow, session by session.

A normal week

MonRest

TueBall mastery + strength

Wed1v1 + finishing

ThuSmall-sided games

FriFree play / street

SatMatch

SunMatch / recover

A thousand touches before anything else. Two matches in a weekend means a strength session drops — fresh legs beat extra reps.

Fuel & recovery

→Protein, 2–3 times a day. Eggs, milk, dal, paneer, chicken — the simple stuff.
→Eat around training. Something before; milk and a banana within half an hour after.
→Hydrate. Through the day, and between back-to-back games in the Bangalore heat — a banana and electrolytes, then sit.
→Sleep. Where the growth actually happens — guarded as hard as the training.

The 5 a.m. startsHe’s up before any of us for the morning session, and still asking to play by evening. Drop him anywhere — the beach in Goa, the society downstairs — and he’ll pull other kids into a game. Nobody arranged it. That’s the part you can’t coach.