We are driven as an organization to develop passionate, disciplined, and hard-working global citizens. We have a mandate to develop socially conscious individuals who will model our core values in their everyday lives.

Discipline
A huge part of being successful in soccer and in life is developing a winning approach of consistent habits for achieving goals. We emphasize to our players that becoming good at anything takes hard work and most importantly discipline.

Teamwork

Obviously we all know soccer is a team sport, and no team can achieve lasting success with just focusing on individual goals.

Family

Our club is not just a collection of teams, but we are a family unit supporting each other in our common goals.

Community

As a non-profit we have an organizational mandate to improve our community. We also see our role not just as developing soccer talent, but developing young people who will change their small towns, and eventually have an impact nationally and globally.

Profile of The Ideal GFC Player

Intelligent - The GFC player must have the necessary mental speed to make effective decisions in order to unbalance/disrupt the opponent in attacking or defensive situations. Autonomous – The GFC player must be able to read the game and make decisions on their own, drawing from patterns learned at practice, or experiences from other similar situations. In general, a player cannot remain a prisoner of the coach during a game. The GFC player must learn to make their own decisions based on an already established playing style and structure.

Creative – The GFC player must have the ability to improvise and find creative solutions within the game. The GFC player will be a master of the 1v1 situation – not just in dribbling, but in maintaining possession for their team. Growth Mindset – The GFC player must have a capacity, commitment and willingness to always learn from every situation. Our players will learn from an early age that they are responsible for their own development. The GFC player must have a resilient attitude, and be willing to leave their comfort zone to extend their learning outcomes.

GFC Playing Style:

All of our teams will play a brand of attacking soccer that relies on strong positional play, and possession through the thirds of the field. Our ultimate goal is to create intelligent soccer players who have great positional and spatial awareness, and who value having possession of the ball. We want to create the kind of player that is unhappy when the ball is not in their team's possession – the player that is hungry to keep the ball, but also happy to pass it to a teammate and get it back again.