https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soc...ndalk-33686749
Brexit Relief to fund our Academies?
If a central body was to run academies in Ireland, at least 4 might be required. North Dublin & North Leinster, South Dublin & South Leinster, Connacht & Ulster and Munster.Originally Posted by Irish Independent
Whether something like that can be achieved through investment in progressive LoI Academies might be worth consideration.
Does anyone have any detail on the seven academies in Portugal or any other European country that are seen as progressive with their academy structure?Originally Posted by FAI CEO David Courell
https://foot.ie/forums/117-Kerry-FC
A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined. First Division '14: 7 first teams.
Opportunity lost for new clubs/regions to join the LoI family.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soc...ndalk-33686749
Brexit Relief to fund our Academies?
Do all LOI clubs have an academy? Do these academics get any government or FAI funding? Do the FAI provide any coaches to any of the academics?
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soc...rnment-source/
The Irish Times are reporting that the FAI are too late in applying for Brexit funding.
Increasing the betting tax is where the FAI have hopes to generate the money.
https://m.independent.ie/sport/socce...110874619.html
This report in the Irish Independent from April reported that €10m a year is required.
All clubs have youth teams anyway. Is that classified as their academies?
The FAI could proceed with their 3 tier academy classification. If they went with Gold, Silver and Bronze, or whatever is appropriate, individual clubs could lobby locally for the funding to get up to Silver or Gold Status.
"Tier-one academies would have to provide on-site access to the Leaving Cert curriculum or a partnership with nearby secondary schools, similar to the arrangement between Shamrock Rovers and Ashfield College."
If Treaty or Kerry have a Tier 3 academy, an emerging talent would probably look at getting into a Tier 1 academy. Putting the tiered academy licences in place can at least start healthy competition and rivalry anyway, and the focus for getting the funding required.
I'd say most "academies" are charging their players a few hundred euro a year for the privilege
Are there any relatively consistently strong academies compared to weaker men's team in the LOI?
(Eg. I think Crewe Alexander weren't tier 1 academy in England , at least for a long while).
I don't think academies have been around long enough for that to develop.
UCD would always have been very strong at U20s level in the past for example, but that's because we got a lot of players from Home Farm/Cherry Orchard/St Kevin's, etc. We had more of a youth focus than other clubs so did better at underage. But that's not the same as saying we had a strong academy
"Average coaching contact time for under-17 boys at League of Ireland clubs is 260 minutes per week... 24 academies having only 10 full-time staff...
A category three English academy like Rochdale or Accrington Stanley spends up to 720 minutes on youth development."
The Irish Times are reporting that the ETP money is to be spent on the best 14-to-18-year-olds footballers in the country. This approach will treble the training hours of boys and girls with the greatest potential to make it as professionals. The sessions will take place at the FAI’s HQ in Abbotstown from next year.
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