The Team — Project Zero
The Team · Professional Standards · European Pathway

Learn from people who lived the professional standard.

Project Zero is led by professionals who have played it, coached it, scouted it, trained it and built systems around it. Serious players need serious standards before the opportunity arrives.

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FIFAWorld Cup experience and international competition.
PROProfessional club contracts, first division environments and elite rooms.
UEFACertified coaching and European tactical education.
SCOUTTrusted club relationships with Portugal as the anchor and Europe as the wider pathway.
No amateur advice for a professional dream

If the dream is professional, the standard has to be professional.

You do not become a professional by learning from amateur standards. Project Zero puts players around people who understand what professional environments demand technically, tactically, physically, mentally and behaviorally.

Derek Sequeira Team Canada portrait
Derek SequeiraFounder · World Cup Experience
Founder · Player pathway architect

Derek Sequeira

Former professional · Team Canada · 10X certified business coach

Derek Sequeira built Project Zero from lived experience. He reached Team Canada, signed professionally with Toronto FC, competed in FIFA World Cup qualifying and FIFA World Cup competition, and played inside international environments across Brazil, Italy, Spain and elite youth tournaments. After football, he built a million dollar automotive customization business, launched a marketing company, helped businesses generate more than $20 million in revenue, and became a 10X certified business coach.

FIFA World Cup experience
Toronto FC professional contract
Brazil, Italy and Spain environments
10X certified business coach
Team Canada
Toronto FC
Fluminense
SC Braga
10X
Coach · Performance Director

Marlon Sequeira

Former professional · Brazil first division exposure · performance leadership

Marlon Sequeira was the first professional standard Derek saw up close. He became a professional player at 16, played in the Canadian Soccer League with the Italia Shooters, and was sent by Armandinho to first division football in Brazil with Vitória. During Derek's time at Toronto FC, Marlon served as an athletic therapist, supporting strength and conditioning, nutrition, recovery and professional team environments.

Former professional player
Vitória first division Brazil environment
Toronto FC athletic therapy support
Project Zero performance director
Toronto FC
Vitória
Brazil
Performance
PZ
He told me at nine years old he would make me a pro. Everything I know about standards started there.
Marlon Sequeira
Marlon SequeiraCoach · Performance Director
Alex Bendana UEFA certified coach
Alex BendanaUEFA Certified Coach
UEFA certified coach · Tactical education

Alex Bendana

UEFA certified coach · European academy experience · scout preparation

Alex Bendana is a UEFA certified coach based in Barcelona with experience around some of the most respected development environments in European football. His role inside Project Zero is to give players a European tactical lens before they enter the evaluation conversation: game model, position behavior, decision making, video analysis, scout language and trial readiness.

UEFA certified coach
Barcelona based football education
European academy reference points
Tactical analysis and scout preparation
UEFA
Sevilla
Barcelona
Marseille
Cádiz
Scout · European pathway

Armandinho Manjate

Former Sporting CP professional · scout relationship · Portugal anchor

Armandinho Manjate is the trusted professional relationship behind the European pathway. He played first division football in Portugal with Sporting CP, served as Technical Director of the Ontario provincial program, helped develop Derek toward Team Canada and sent Marlon into a first division Brazil environment. Today, his trusted relationships with SC Braga, Benfica and Sporting create the Portugal anchor. Portugal is the starting point, not the limit. The wider pathway expands when the player proves the level.

Former Sporting CP professional
Ontario provincial technical director
SC Braga, Benfica and Sporting relationships
European pathway scout standard
SC Braga
Benfica
Sporting
Cruzeiro
Fluminense
Armandinho Manjate
Armandinho ManjateScout · European Pathway
How the team operates

European standard before the conversation.

The player is prepared through a European lens before the European conversation happens. That means the training, evaluation, video, behavior and pathway decision must all match the professional room the player wants to enter.

Assess

Identify the real level before the family enters a pathway conversation.

Develop

Build the technical, tactical, physical and behavioral standard.

Analyze

Use video, scorecards and feedback to prepare the player for evaluation.

Route

Use Portugal as the anchor and wider Europe when the level is earned.

Train with the professionals.

Project Zero is for families who want real evaluation, professional standards and a pathway conversation based on readiness.

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