MADRID, 6 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
LaLiga inaugurated its first academy in Latin America in Bogotá (Colombia), thanks to the alliance with EFA Deportes, a center where boys, girls and adolescents will train, adding to the more than 750 sports projects in 55 countries managed by the Spanish employers' association. for “the promotion of grassroots football at a global level”, according to a statement issued this Tuesday.
LaLiga Academy of Bogotá, which will open its doors this February, will welcome players from 4 to 19 years old, who will train “under the highest standards of global grassroots football through the LaLiga football methodology, taught by some of the best coaches in grassroots football of the entity”.
The sports center will be at the Gimnasio del Norte School and will have resources and tools from the Spanish competition for “the development of the personal and sporting potential of the participants”, with “high-performance facilities.” Thus, they will enjoy four regulation fields and more than ten local coaches, all licensed.
The academy will be led by a LaLiga coach, with a UEFA PRO license. “The objective will be to achieve comprehensive training for young footballers, both at a sporting and educational level and in terms of personal development,” as well as “the promotion of grassroots football at a global level,” the statement explained.
“We are very satisfied with the agreement, since it will be our first academy in Latin America, which is a key region for LaLiga Academy. Colombia is a strategic country for us,” said Javier Hernández, head of LaLiga Academy.
For his part, the LaLiga delegate in Colombia, Juan Raúl Mejía, highlighted that this new academy “represents for LaLiga a milestone” in the development of the employers' association in Latin America. “One of our main objectives is to help boost and development of grassroots football at a global level, and we know that in Colombia there is great talent that we will help enhance through our methodologies,” he commented.
“LaLiga's methodology focuses on the development of players from a comprehensive perspective, covering four essential pillars: tactical-cognitive, technical-coordinative, physical-conditional and psychological-socio-affective. It also emphasizes the stimulation of talent and in the individualization of the training process,” said Juan Florit, head of Sports Projects at LaLiga Academy.
LaLiga has a network of academies that focus “on the development of young international talent”, with nine fixed headquarters in the United States, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Malaysia and Madrid.