This isn't a coaching guide and it isn't advice — we're not qualified to give any. It's the part of the journey nobody hands you a manual for: everything around the football that a family actually has to figure out. We're writing down what we faced, what we chose, and plenty we got wrong — in case it helps someone a season behind us feel less alone.
The real logistics of raising a young footballer — everything around the game, from the questions parents actually ask.
A living sectionThese notes grow as we do. Nothing here is settled or expert — it's one family's record, and it will keep changing as Avyaan does.