Borus­sia Dort­mund (BVB), one of the best foot­ball clubs in the world, is set to open a Caribbean Youth Foot­ball Acad­e­my with­in the next month.

The Ger­man club will of­fi­cial­ly launch the BVB In­ter­na­tion­al Acad­e­my – Caribbean on Ju­ly 25 at the Kapok Ho­tel in Mar­aval, T&T.

BVB is glob­al­ly recog­nised for its world-class youth de­vel­op­ment sys­tem, hav­ing pro­duced world-class play­ers such as Mar­co Reus, Jude Belling­ham, Mario Götze, Jadon San­cho, Yous­so­ufa Moukoko, and Er­ling Haa­land, with its youth sys­tem glob­al­ly ac­claimed for its fo­cus on tech­ni­cal ex­cel­lence, men­tal dis­ci­pline and tac­ti­cal in­tel­li­gence.

The Acad­e­my will of­fer a holis­tic pro­gramme for young as­pir­ing foot­ballers, in­clud­ing 360-de­gree coach­ing pro­grammes, strength and con­di­tion­ing train­ing, health and lifestyle de­vel­op­ment pro­grammes, goal-set­ting strate­gies and team and lead­er­ship train­ing.

In a me­dia re­lease, the Borus­sia Dort­mund de­scribed the move as a “par­a­digm shift”.

“The BVB In­ter­na­tion­al Acad­e­my – Caribbean, rep­re­sents a par­a­digm shift in how youth foot­ball de­vel­op­ment is nur­tured, blend­ing Ger­man method­ol­o­gy with Caribbean tal­ent and po­ten­tial.

“The es­tab­lish­ment of this acad­e­my will pro­vide young Caribbean foot­ballers with di­rect ac­cess to elite-lev­el coach­ing method­olo­gies us­ing the BVB mod­el,” it stat­ed.

Chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of BVB In­ter­na­tion­al Acad­e­my – Caribbean, An­dre Lawrence said the ini­tia­tive would pro­vide ad­di­tion­al op­por­tu­ni­ties for foot­ballers in the re­gion.

“Our re­gion is blessed with nat­ur­al ath­leti­cism, ev­i­dent in the many sport­ing dis­ci­plines in which we ex­cel on the glob­al stage.

“The Caribbean is be­ing pre­sent­ed with an op­por­tu­ni­ty where an in­ter­na­tion­al­ly proven mod­el that nur­tures promis­ing young foot­ballers is now avail­able,” Lawrence said.

“It will pro­vide young stu­dent ath­letes with a com­pre­hen­sive de­vel­op­ment pro­gramme that pre­pares them for a suc­cess­ful ca­reer in pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball.”

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