The former Socceroo has combined with a host of coaches across the region to deliver JK Football Development and has aimed to give soccer players of all abilities a different experience to normal club training.

A 10-session introduction to the program will wrap up next week but has attracted an average of 125 players each Thursday at Albury's Glen Park since it commenced in October.

"We've had almost 150 kids at some points, so it's been great to unofficially launch in that way and introduce them to what we're about," Kennedy said.

"It's a slightly different take on bringing some of the old skills and techniques back into learning that we've probably all bypassed in the last 15 to 20 years.

"We didn't want to make it a normal team training, so keeping the coach to player ratio low with more individual training is key because you lose that if you have too many numbers.

"You see the guys out there early setting up and waiting for players to come.

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"It's good as a player when you see a pitch set up because the attention is with you when the session is on and you're not worrying about setting up."

The experienced Stephen Hayes helped designed the JK Football Development concept with Kennedy and has been blown away by the response.

"We didn't expect to see the numbers we're getting," Hayes said.

"We had a national conference the week before last and Ron Smith, who has been engaged by FFA (Football Federation Australia) to be a consultant to (national technical director) Trevor Morgan, was talking about how the curriculum is wrong.

"We've been barking that song ever since the curriculum has come in and he has said this is what everybody should be doing, which is what we used to do 20 years ago.

"We've pretty much re-invented the wheel and gone back to what we used to do.

"We'd like to think we're ahead of the bunch by doing this and it's exposing kids to things they don't get at club level."

Kennedy was recently appointed Football Victoria's NPL competitions manager and hopes program such as this on the Border can help players aspire to reach the highest level.

"Hopefully I can bring a bit to the table and make things happen, but it won't happen overnight," he said.

"You're always going to have the battles with regional teams travelling to the city. Even Bendigo, Ballarat and Shepparton have their battles getting kids to metro areas and vice versa.

"I think you still need to give kids a pathway (through the NPL) and you want to give kids a pathway through representative football. You don't want to block any pathway because not everyone takes the same path."

Kennedy said next week's final session will be a mini world cup format and he hopes the players can take what they've learnt into a game situation.