About the academy
God, family, football. In that order, and it changes how practice runs.
G1 Football Academy is a youth football training and athlete development organization in Dallas, Texas. In its own words, its mission is to create a supportive environment where youth can develop their skills, build character and foster relationships, and to inspire the next generation to pursue excellence on and off the field.
Connect, correct, reconnect.
The academy names its coaching cycle, which is unusual and worth paying attention to. Coaching starts with connection: meeting each athlete where they are and building trust, faith and relationship that goes beyond the game. Correction comes second, and it is framed as teaching rather than criticism. Then the cycle closes by reconnecting, so every athlete is reminded that the lesson came from care and not control.
A ten-year-old who drops a pass in front of their team already knows they dropped it. What happens in the following thirty seconds decides whether they play freely or carefully for the rest of the season, and a staff who have named that cycle are a staff who have thought about those thirty seconds. The academy says the cycle helps players grow not just as athletes but as people grounded in discipline, character and heart, and that is a claim you can watch being kept or broken at any practice.
Around it sits a simple promise about not losing people: G1 builds brotherhood, mentors athletes through every stage, and supports parents so no player gets lost in the system. The programme is faith-forward and family-oriented, and it does not treat that as a decoration on the football.
The people in charge
- Ramon Broadway, President
- Raised in Shreveport. Three-year starter and captain at Arkansas, then the NFL with the San Diego Chargers and the CFL with the Edmonton Eskimos. He built the values-first programme the academy runs on.
- Jose Gamino, Founder
- Dallas-raised and faith-driven. His own development ran through FC Dallas Academy, Real Madrid’s development program and IMG Academy. Over a decade coaching more than 500 athletes, and the founder of Gamino Athletics.
Teams that look like heaven
“We strive to cultivate diversity and brotherhood.”
The academy’s full line is that it strives to cultivate diversity and brotherhood, building teams that look like heaven, while keeping God, love and community at the core of everything it does. The jerseys carry GOD FIRST above the number, which is a more permanent way of saying it than a page like this one.
Football is the spark. The rest is the reason.
“At G1, football is the spark, but community is the legacy.” What that means in practice is tutoring that keeps athletes thriving in school, mentorship that builds character, and partnerships that open doors, with families walked through every step so nobody is left to work it out alone.
The academy is also explicit that cost should never be the barrier, and runs scholarships and mentorship for underserved youth on that basis. Alongside it sits the part most youth programmes have not caught up with: digital literacy and a NIL-safe behavior curriculum, taught because conduct now weighs on scholarship offers as heavily as tape does.
What the academy wants to build next.
This part is a goal rather than a description, and it is worth being clear about that. The academy’s stated vision is a dedicated G1 facility: a study hall, a nutrition bar, weight training, indoor field access and a player lounge. Its own words are that the facility will be more than a training space, and will be a second home for its athletes.
None of that exists yet. Today the academy trains, competes across Texas and in select Florida tournaments, and works out of Dallas. The facility is what it is working toward, and the aim behind it is to give every athlete a destination that keeps them grounded, supported and on the right path.