EXCLUSIVE: Im a British expat and started my own football club in Spainweve rocketed through the leagues and now were playing at a national level – this is our winning formula [Video]

SEAMLESSLY switching between fluent Spanish and English, George Jermy barks orders to his players on a sun-drenched training ground on the Costa del Sol. 

Whilst the squad take a break, sipping water in the winter heat, the nimble Englishmen walks over to chat to his coaching staff, ten or more, all clad in personalised Nike training gear, discussing together what they’ve just seen out on the pitch.

We are at FC Malaga City, one of Spain’s newest and most exciting football clubs, watching on as morning training takes place.

It is an impressively professional affair for a club just seven years in age – but George Jermy, owner, founder, coach and occasional player, admits this wasn’t always the case.

“If you saw the first few years it was literally a bag of balls”, he admits.

“I was driving to games, handing in the team sheets to the referee, giving the …