Hola Skoko Group was born in 2017 with the idea of providing high quality football training to players aged 4 to 25 at the same time giving these players as much exposure and trial opportunities as possible to help them exceed in the wonderful game of football.

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The 2018 season was extremely impressive as many players had gone for trials to various clubs and a few making great impressions at those clubs. Domestically, we played in the Deep South LFA and also had a team playing in the SAFA Promotional League which was 1 league below the Castle (SAB League - 3rd Tier of South African football). The coaching experience gained from coaching at that level was second to none which spurred Coach Nishaan to go further and complete another coaching license to add to his arsenal.

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We took a small step back at the beginning of 2019 and wanted to make a real impact in football coaching in our area of Lenasia and thought what better way than to concentrate on grassroots football development where "The Soccer Studio - Soccer School" was born. We gave Hola Skoko Football Academy a bit of a break and concentrated more on TSS as it is affectionately known which caters for players aged 4-14 with specialist coaches in each division all looked after by an academy director.

 

TSS has grown incredibly over the 2019 season pushing us to launch the Junior Soccer League (JSL) in March 2020 that is an internal league for TSS players with a few clubs coming from areas such as Soweto, Sandton and Noordgesig to provide that competitive edge. The idea of this league is to create a football hub with 1000s of players in one area that would attract scouts from all over the country making it easy for them to have a look at players of all abilities all in one ground.

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The next step was to make players eat, sleep and breathe football as that is the only way of succeeding. We created sessions that were so much of fun players had to become obsessed with coming to training and enjoying themselves.

 

We still however noticed a small decrease in player attendance just after examinations as parents had punished players for not doing well academically by taking away the one thing that they loved - football. This is how "HS Learning Academy" started, which is a tuition based centre of learning to assist players academically so they excel in football as well as school. We noticed this helped players in the training and games as well as they could understand better and it increased their confidence. HS Learning Academy is open to players of all ages and we offer tuition on a wide variety of subjects for all grades.

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Now that we have technically good and smart players, we need to create a conduit for players to filter through, an agency that players trust and resonate with and know that this agency has their best interests at heart. Step forward "HS Football Agency" which was launch at the end of 2019 as a football agency that represents players at all levels. We nurture the talent through our grassroots program and then provide as much exposure for players as possible through networking with various clubs with the end goal being a player signing for one of these clubs. It doesn't end here as we then manage the player to ensure he is as happy as possible playing at the club and doing his best while being treated well. 

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