Italy's Coverciano Academy

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Coverciano

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Coverciano, also known as Casa Italia, located in the quartiere of Florence with the same name, is the central training ground and technical headquarter of the FIGC, the Italian Football Association. Built in the early 1950s, Coverciano now consists of five football pitches, a gym, a fitness club, two tennis courts and an outdoor swimming pool. Also boasting a four-star hotel, Coverciano has been a common choice for football business meetings, and has hosted, in addition to the FIGC, international bodies such as FIFA and UEFA. Its training and licensing academy for coaches is considered to be one of the best in the world.


Most important, however, is the ground's role in Italian football lore. Host of the Italian Football Hall of Fame, and the national team's preparations for the World Cup, reaching Coverciano represents something of an apotheosis for any aspiring Italian footballer, as Joe McGinniss observes in his award-winning memoir

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France's Clairefontaine Academy

Clairefontaine

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National Technical Centre entrance


Le Centre Technique National Fernand Sastre (Fernand Sastre National Technical Centre), commonly referred to as Clairefontaine, is the national football centre and is one of the nine élite academies of France; only the best players from the Île-de-France région train there. There are eight other élite youth academies in Metropolitan France (Castelmaurou, Châteauroux, Liévin, Dijon, Marseille, Ploufragan, Vichy and Reims) covering the whole territory.
Located 50 km southwest of Paris at Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, Clairefontaine is arguably the finest football academy in the world - the French answer to the English FA Youth Academy, Lilleshall. Former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson once said if England had the equivalent to this they would have already won a major championship. The "mecca" of French football, it has a high reputation of producing some of the world's most gifted players, including the likes of Frenchmen Nicolas Anelka, Louis Saha, William Gallas and Thierry Henry.
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• 1 History
• 2 Youth development
• 3 Grounds
• 4 Famous Former Student
• 5 See also
  • 5.1 Website
• 6 References

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[edit] History

In 1976, French Football Federation president and longtime official Fernand Sastre desired for the creation of a national centre of football. Six years later, the FFF selected Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines as the site of the center. Construction of the centre commenced in 1985 and lasted nearly three years - the centre opened its doors in January of 1988. During the 1998 World Cup, which France hosted, Clairefontaine housed the French national team. That same year, the FFF named the centre in Fernand Sastre's honor. A bust of Sastre was put on the grounds in 2000; also present on the grounds is a statue of the FIFA World Cup.
The best young football players from the Île-de-France region (of which Paris is the capital) come to Clairefontaine for training and development of their technical skills. Most of the players that attend here are often being tracked by established French clubs and go on to have very successful careers. Today, many top local clubs play at the grounds. The academy continues to develop some of France's most promising talents in Jimmy Briand and Mourad Meghni.

[edit] Youth development

Youth development at Clairefontaine incorporates many principles on football with their students, such as:

• Making the player’s movements faster and better
• Linking movements efficiently and wisely
• Using the weaker foot
• Weaknesses in the player’s game
• Psychological factors (sports personality tests)
• Medical factors
• Physical tests (beep test)
• Technical skills
• Skill Training (Juggling the ball, running with the ball, dribbling, kicking, passing and ball control
• Tactical (To help the ball carrier, to get the ball back, to offer support, to pass the ball and follow the pass, positioning and the movement into space

[edit] Grounds

Clairefontaine is an immense football centre, encompassing 56 hectares of land and boasting 66,000 square meters of turfed grounds. It is located in the valley of Chevreuse in the heart of the Rambouillet forest. Clairefontaine has several training grounds, a stadium pitch and even an indoor pitch made of artificial turf. The centre also includes a medical building, gym, fitness room, restaurant and cafeteria. There are even three tennis courts on the grounds.

[edit] Famous Former Student

• Nicolas Anelka
• William Gallas
• Thierry Henry
• Louis Saha
• Jérôme Rothen
• Jimmy Briand
• Philippe Christanval
• Franck Dumas
• Richard Dutruel
• Jean-Luc Ettori
• Pascal Olmeta
• Issiar Dia
• Grégory Proment
• Johan Radet
• Grégory Wimbée
• Blaise Matuidi
• Kemal Bourhani
• Mourad Meghni
• Jacques Faty
• Ricardo Faty
• Habib Bellaïd
• Vassiriki Abou Diaby
• Hatem Ben Arfa
• Gabriel Obertan

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Just before his 14th birthday, Thierry was one of the 25 boys selected for the French Football Federation's Clairefontaine Academy, located about 30 miles west of Paris. Like every teen who receives this prestigious honor, he lived at the school and concentrated almost exclusively on soccer. William Gallas, Louis Saha and Nicolas Anelka were among Thierry’s classmates at Clairefontaine.
Two years into his stint at Clairefontaine, Thierry was viewed by his coaches as a project player—still too raw to be considered a future star. They liked his speed and his intelligence but worried that his ball-handling, passing and scoring ability would not improve to an elite level.

[Karl]

Just before his 14th birthday, Thierry was one of the 25 boys selected for the French Football Federation's Clairefontaine Academy, located about 30 miles west of Paris. Like every teen who receives this prestigious honor, he lived at the school and concentrated almost exclusively on soccer. William Gallas, Louis Saha and Nicolas Anelka were among Thierry’s classmates at Clairefontaine.
Two years into his stint at Clairefontaine, Thierry was viewed by his coaches as a project player—still too raw to be considered a future star. They liked his speed and his intelligence but worried that his ball-handling, passing and scoring ability would not improve to an elite level.

Even they make mis-judgements?
Wonder if they left out any players who would be greater than those who came through the doors?

BTW - Is it only footballers who are developed here?
No coaching courses?
No referees courses?
No courses for administrators? etc?

I do not know! Just asking for increased knowkledge!

[Karl]

Coverciano

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Coverciano, also known as Casa Italia, located in the quartiere of Florence with the same name, is the central training ground and technical headquarter of the FIGC, the Italian Football Association. Built in the early 1950s, Coverciano now consists of
five football pitches,

a gym,

a fitness club,

two tennis courts

and an outdoor swimming pool.

Also boasting a four-star hotel,

Coverciano has been a common choice for football business meetings,

and has hosted, in addition to the FIGC, international bodies such as FIFA and UEFA.

Its training and licensing academy for coaches is considered to be one of the best in the world.


Most important, however, is the ground's role in Italian football lore. Host of the Italian Football Hall of Fame, and the national team's preparations for the World Cup, reaching Coverciano represents something of an apotheosis for any aspiring Italian footballer, as Joe McGinniss observes in his award-winning memoir

Thank you!
So it doubles as training site for footballers, coaches, holdiong of international meetings/conferences...

...has hotel on site?

Wonder what else it available and is used for that we are not told about?

[Karl]

Clairefontaine

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



National Technical Centre entrance


Le Centre Technique National Fernand Sastre (Fernand Sastre National Technical Centre), commonly referred to as Clairefontaine, is the national football centre and is one of the nine élite academies of France; only the best players from the Île-de-France région train there. There are eight other élite youth academies in Metropolitan France (Castelmaurou, Châteauroux, Liévin, Dijon, Marseille, Ploufragan, Vichy and Reims) covering the whole territory.
Located 50 km southwest of Paris at Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, Clairefontaine is arguably the finest football academy in the world - the French answer to the English FA Youth Academy, Lilleshall. Former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson once said if England had the equivalent to this they would have already won a major championship. The "mecca" of French football, it has a high reputation of producing some of the world's most gifted players, including the likes of Frenchmen Nicolas Anelka, Louis Saha, William Gallas and Thierry Henry.

• 1 History
• 2 Youth development
• 3 Grounds
• 4 Famous Former Student
• 5 See also
  • 5.1 Website
• 6 References

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[edit] History

In 1976, French Football Federation president and longtime official Fernand Sastre desired for the creation of a national centre of football. Six years later, the FFF selected Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines as the site of the center. Construction of the centre commenced in 1985 and lasted nearly three years - the centre opened its doors in January of 1988. During the 1998 World Cup, which France hosted, Clairefontaine housed the French national team. That same year, the FFF named the centre in Fernand Sastre's honor. A bust of Sastre was put on the grounds in 2000; also present on the grounds is a statue of the FIFA World Cup.
The best young football players from the Île-de-France region (of which Paris is the capital) come to Clairefontaine for training and development of their technical skills. Most of the players that attend here are often being tracked by established French clubs and go on to have very successful careers. Today, many top local clubs play at the grounds. The academy continues to develop some of France's most promising talents in Jimmy Briand and Mourad Meghni.

[edit] Youth development

Youth development at Clairefontaine incorporates many principles on football with their students, such as:

• Making the player’s movements faster and better
• Linking movements efficiently and wisely
• Using the weaker foot
• Weaknesses in the player’s game
• Psychological factors (sports personality tests)
• Medical factors
• Physical tests (beep test)
• Technical skills
• Skill Training (Juggling the ball, running with the ball, dribbling, kicking, passing and ball control
• Tactical (To help the ball carrier, to get the ball back, to offer support, to pass the ball and follow the pass, positioning and the movement into space

[edit] Grounds

Clairefontaine is -
an immense football centre, encompassing 56 hectares of land and boasting 66,000 square meters of turfed grounds. It is located in the valley of Chevreuse in the heart of the Rambouillet forest. Clairefontaine

has several training grounds,

a stadium pitch

and even an indoor pitch made of artificial turf.

The centre also includes -
a medical building,

gym,

fitness room,

restaurant and cafeteria.

There are even three tennis courts on the grounds.

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Thank you, sah!
So some of the support services that would be near to the GC Foster are on the grounds? So you do need those services at the hand...or at least so thought those silly Frenchmen? (scarcasim!)