We're JB17 Performance.

JB17 Performance was founded in 2024 by former professional footballer Jonathan Brown. After fifteen years in the game — from the Cardiff City academy to clubs across four continents — Jonathan came home to Bridgend to build the coaching programme he wished had existed when he was a young player.

We're not a drop-in football school. We're a small, deliberate coaching team, and we work with players who want to take their development seriously — whether that's a young player chasing academy trials, a club-level player looking for an edge, or anyone in between.

What you get from us: focused sessions, honest feedback, and a development plan you can actually work on between sessions. The glamorous parts of the game don't matter much. The daily habits do.

I came through the Cardiff City academy from the age of eleven, training alongside Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey. I made my senior debut for Cardiff in February 2008, and over the fifteen years that followed the game took me to clubs on four continents.

I played in the English non-league with Wrexham, Hereford, Southport, Bath City and AFC Telford; in Australia with Central Coast Mariners; in Belgium and Thailand; and in Bangladesh with Abahani Limited Dhaka, where I was fortunate enough to win the Bangladesh Premier League in 2015–16. Back in the States, I spent two spells with Oklahoma City Energy FC in the USL and a season with Hartford Athletic.

After hanging up my boots at Penybont in 2024, I set up JB17 Performance to pass on what a career like that teaches you — not the glamorous parts, but the daily habits that actually move a player forward. The technique. The decision-making. The mentality to keep turning up when nothing's clicking.