Which European country?

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If your child had the opportunity to try out at a football academy in Europe, which country or countries would you focus on?

I realize that is a broad question but assume child is not a generational talent and has an EU passport but no close ties to any particular country.

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Female or male?

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Anonymous wrote:Female or male?

Male

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Spain

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Germany. That said, most are very good.

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Spain

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Anonymous wrote:If your child had the opportunity to try out at a football academy in Europe, which country or countries would you focus on?

I realize that is a broad question but assume child is not a generational talent and has an EU passport but no close ties to any particular country.

I heard Spain, Netherlands, and Belgium do a good job. France is pretty good but they are smart. They build urban soccer fields in the poor areas and the kids just grow up playing free style and the the clubs come in a scoop them up and round them out.

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Liechtenstein

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Anonymous wrote:If your child had the opportunity to try out at a football academy in Europe, which country or countries would you focus on?

I realize that is a broad question but assume child is not a generational talent and has an EU passport but no close ties to any particular country.

I heard Spain, Netherlands, and Belgium do a good job. France is pretty good but they are smart. They build urban soccer fields in the poor areas and the kids just grow up playing free style and the the clubs come in a scoop them up and round them out.

Name me a country in Europe that doesn't have places to play soccer in low income areas?

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Anonymous wrote:If your child had the opportunity to try out at a football academy in Europe, which country or countries would you focus on?

I realize that is a broad question but assume child is not a generational talent and has an EU passport but no close ties to any particular country.

I heard Spain, Netherlands, and Belgium do a good job. France is pretty good but they are smart. They build urban soccer fields in the poor areas and the kids just grow up playing free style and the the clubs come in a scoop them up and round them out.

Yes, that's exactly the France recruitment model 🤣
They setup gladiators in colosseums and pick the winners

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child had the opportunity to try out at a football academy in Europe, which country or countries would you focus on?

I realize that is a broad question but assume child is not a generational talent and has an EU passport but no close ties to any particular country.

I heard Spain, Netherlands, and Belgium do a good job. France is pretty good but they are smart. They build urban soccer fields in the poor areas and the kids just grow up playing free style and the the clubs come in a scoop them up and round them out.

Name me a country in Europe that doesn't have places to play soccer in low income areas?

I don’t think you understand very well? French academies literally build high end soccer facilities in the hood.

Italy doesn’t do this for starters. If we did this in the south we would be deadly but that’s all corrupt and mafia controlled. I can’t even find Italian kids playing outside anymore in northern Italy but that’s because they are mostly well off and have options

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Does child speak any languages? My son was in Germany and there were kids who lost opportunities because they didn't even try to communicate in German.

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Anonymous wrote:Does child speak any languages? My son was in Germany and there were kids who lost opportunities because they didn't even try to communicate in German.

Learning one right now so that might be more predictive of where to go.

So some of the kids weren’t even trying to learn the language?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child had the opportunity to try out at a football academy in Europe, which country or countries would you focus on?

I realize that is a broad question but assume child is not a generational talent and has an EU passport but no close ties to any particular country.

I heard Spain, Netherlands, and Belgium do a good job. France is pretty good but they are smart. They build urban soccer fields in the poor areas and the kids just grow up playing free style and the the clubs come in a scoop them up and round them out.

Name me a country in Europe that doesn't have places to play soccer in low income areas?

I don’t think you understand very well? French academies literally build high end soccer facilities in the hood.

Italy doesn’t do this for starters. If we did this in the south we would be deadly but that’s all corrupt and mafia controlled. I can’t even find Italian kids playing outside anymore in northern Italy but that’s because they are mostly well off and have options

Italy can't afford to build high end facilities in neighborhoods

Also, can you provide a link to any articles or news reports showing academies in France building high end facilities in low income neighborhoods?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your child had the opportunity to try out at a football academy in Europe, which country or countries would you focus on?

I realize that is a broad question but assume child is not a generational talent and has an EU passport but no close ties to any particular country.

England offers the most opportunities, largely due to the sheer number of professional academies (92 in total). Additionally, there are numerous private academies and grassroots teams that compete at a high level in well-organized, competitive leagues.