Our Story — Project Zero
Our Story · Player Built · Pathway Driven

From World Cup experience to a system built for serious players.

Project Zero was built from FIFA World Cup and elite club competition, professional club environments, business discipline, and a trusted scout relationship that now opens the next door for serious players.

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Highest standard of experience

World Cup level is the proof.

Project Zero starts from the highest competitive reference point in football: FIFA World Cup qualification, FIFA World Cup competition, and international matches against serious football nations.

FIFAWorld Cup experience and international competition
PROToronto FC professional contract and global club environments
UEFAUEFA certified coaching, SC Braga scouting connection, and European standards
Derek Sequeira holding Canada crest during World Cup qualifying anthem
Proof ImageCanada Crest · Qualifiers
Canada qualification screenshot with Derek circled
Proof ImageQualified With Canada
Derek Sequeira at the FIFA World Cup
Proof ImageFIFA World Cup UAE

The standard became the system.

World Cup experience created the reference point. Business created the operating system. Project Zero combines elite football standards with measurement, accountability, communication, follow up, and execution. The result is not just training. It is a serious development platform for players who want to perform in professional rooms.

Our Mission

Ready before the opportunity.

Project Zero exists to close the gap between ambition and professional readiness. The player must be assessed honestly, trained against measurable standards, corrected weekly, and only exposed when the environment will strengthen their future.

We are not selling vague exposure. We are building a developmental success system: football standards, life standards, professional behavior, and pathway decisions based on readiness.

Core
values

The same standards that create professional players create professional people.

Standards

Every player is held to a measurable professional expectation.

Accountability

Excuses do not develop players. Evidence does.

Readiness

Exposure only matters when the player is prepared for the room.

Behavior

Attitude, humility, coachability, and social skills are part of selection.

Pathway

The goal is to open the right doors, not sell vague opportunities.

Results

Only verified outcomes and documented progress count.

Derek Sequeira Team Canada photo
Meet Our Founder

Derek Sequeira knows the pathway because he lived it.

Derek reached the highest levels available to a Canadian player: provincial selection, Team Canada, a Toronto FC professional contract, FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, and FIFA World Cup competition. He also experienced the global game early through football environments in Brazil, Italy, Spain, and elite international tournament play.

CanadaFIFA World Cup Qualifiers

Panama, 2013.

World StageFIFA World Cup

United Arab Emirates.

ProfessionalToronto FC Contract

Signed professionally as a teenager.

GlobalBrazil · Italy · Spain

Professional club environments before adulthood.

Founder Timeline

From local setback to World Cup standard.

2005
The Cut
Cut from a local club
The story starts with a setback. Derek is cut young, and the disappointment becomes fuel. His brother Marlon steps in, raises the daily standard, and the foundation of Project Zero begins with adversity instead of comfort.
A setback became the first lesson: standards beat comfort.
Derek Sequeira cut from a local club photo
2009
The Coach
Ontario program and Brazil experience
Derek is recruited into the Ontario provincial environment and begins building toward Team Canada. Around this stage, he also experiences Brazilian football at Fluminense, seeing the game through a different technical and cultural standard.
This is where Armandinho Manjate enters the story: the coach who helped shape Derek toward World Cup level and now helps connect the next generation forward.
Derek Sequeira in Brazil with provincial team and Armandinho
2011
The Standard
Italy and national-team preparation
Derek competes in Italy and continues developing into a national-team-level player. The environment forces him to understand speed of play, tactical behavior, and the gap between talent and professional readiness.
Derek Sequeira at Team Canada camp in Italy
2012
The Door Opens
Spain, Toronto FC, and World Cup qualifying
Derek plays in Spain, signs professionally with Toronto FC, and represents Canada in FIFA World Cup Qualifiers in Panama. This stage proves that training, exposure, and readiness can align into real professional outcomes.
Canada qualified screenshot with Derek circled
2013
The World Cup
FIFA World Cup and elite club competition
Derek represents Canada at the FIFA World Cup in the United Arab Emirates after coming through World Cup qualifying. He also competes in the AEGON Future Cup, Ajax's elite tournament, against clubs including Bayern Munich, Tottenham, Sao Paulo, and Ajax.
The reference point is simple: if the player wants the biggest stages, the daily standard must match the biggest stages.
ItalyMoroccoBrazilRussiaUSAPanamaMexicoCosta RicaAzerbaijanArgentinaAustria
Derek Sequeira playing against AFC Ajax on television
2018
The Builder
Million-dollar automotive customization shop
After injury changes the playing path, Derek applies the professional athlete standard to business and builds an automotive customization shop around high-end cars, including Ferrari-level detail and execution.
Derek working on Ferrari in automotive customization shop
2019
The System
Marketing company and revenue systems
Derek launches Future In Media and helps businesses generate more than $20 million in total revenue by building systems for acquisition, sales, follow-up, and execution.
Future In Media marketing company logo
2023
10X
10X certified business coach
Derek becomes a 10X certified business coach, adding a formal operating system to the same professional standards learned through football.
Derek becoming 10X certified business coach
2025
Project Zero
Project Zero and SC Braga pathway
Project Zero is officially created to get players through the right doors. Armandinho Manjate, the coach who helped Derek reach World Cup level, is now connected to the SC Braga scouting pathway. The mission continues: prepare serious players for Europe, professional football, entrepreneurship, and long-term success.
The same coach who helped prepare the player now helps open the next professional door.
Project Zero players at Braga in 2025
Professional Pathway

One trusted door can change the entire conversation.

The pathway is not a logo wall. It is a relationship chain: the coach who helped Derek reach World Cup level is now connected to the SC Braga scouting pathway. Players move forward only when their standard is ready for that conversation.

Current Anchor

SC Braga

The first verified professional conversation for players who earn the standard.

Trusted Scout

Armandinho

The coach who helped build World Cup readiness now connects the pathway forward.

Portugal Standard

Benfica · Sporting

Elite development benchmarks that shape the level Project Zero prepares players toward.

Global Game

Europe + Brazil

Spain, Italy, England, France, Brazil and other serious football markets when readiness supports it.

PortugalSpainItalyEnglandFranceBrazil

This is not a camp. It is a pathway system.

Project Zero prepares players to become professionals on the field, in the room, in business, and in life. The football pathway is the vehicle. The standard is the product.