The organization of a pedagogical proposal for teaching and coaching football should consider different contextual factors and focus on demands necessary for progress. This is a descriptive-purposeful study intended to characterize principles and assumptions, pointing guiding and specific principles for a proposed curriculum for the educational process in football. Those guiding and specific principles correspond to the theory objectively constituted to act in that game, in different stages of training. Assumptions are solutions to problems occasionally faced. Therefore, sports training should not only provide responses to its participants, but also enable players to solve unexpected problems.213 791801