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= Africa Foot Academy =

Africa Foot Academy, short „AFA“, is an african football academy located in Cameroon.

It was founded in 2013 and focuses on scouting young, promising talents from all over the continent and gives them the opportunity to build a successful career within the business of football, all over the world.

The Academy is located in the cities Yaoundé, Nkongsamba and Douala.

It is a non profit organisation, which means that the whole education plan the Academy has to offer is completely free for all their attendants.

Education
Africa Foot Academy has a huge scholar system which substances of high quality training content  respecting the federational guidelines. The school offers children and young talents aged 10 to 18 years a broad platform to playfully learn football skills and to develop themselves on a professional level. They start scouting and accepting children at the age of 5 years. The classes are divided in to  4 sections. U10, which means children aged up to 10 years old, U12, U15 and U17, holding up to250 children under their roofs. These levels are divided into three levels, the basic area, the construction area and the performance area. The goal is to provide the current training level of the game according to the optimal training incentives and forms of training so that the entire potential of young footballers can develop. The training is highly individualised with only a maximum of 25 junior players per performance level. Trainings and games take place twice a week, strictly by the training philosophy of AFA. They also offer separate goal keepers training.

Additionally to their Academy scholars, AFA also has an own Club, FC AFA which plays in the 3 league of Cameroon.

Through their extensive partner network, and especially through their cooperation with various gaming agencies, they take care of their players before, during and after their professional career. With their comprehensive training offer, Africa Foot Academy wants to offer Cameroon and other regions in Africa a new approach to promoting young talents in addition to club and association training in order to contribute to the realisation of the immense future potential of the continent.

Vision
Africa Foot Academy’s training philosophy is hugely based on positive personality development, they highly promote youth development,  integrating a unique life kinetic exercise program which also impacts the academic performance of their scholars, including topics such as health management and also the handling of media.They empower young people through sport and promote their personal, educational and social development in order to improve job prospects. Cameroon has a  great football potential, they were the first african team to reach the quarter finals of the World Cup.

All soccer clubs in Cameroon and in other african countries need is sustainable support and systematic youth development programs.

They start training the children at the age of five years until they reach the age of  18 years, with aims to prepare them for the possible professional football career.

Apart from extensive offers for children and adolescents, AFA also engages in supporting further education for dedicated trainers and clubs in the region of Africa, in order to optimise their youth work. With their global network AFA is excellently positioned on business issues, helping clubs and football clubs improve their management and organisational structures.

Africa Foot Academy is dedicated to the task of promoting the culture of youth soccer in Cameroon and beyond. They are presenting a new, comprehensive approach to youth development in and through football.

There objectives are:


 * Holistic approach to positive youth development through sport


 * Helping talented youth players to reach their highest potential with modern FC-AFA training philosophy


 * Providing young goalkeepers with specialist training


 * Supporting coaches in their efforts to develop youth soccer


 * Supporting clubs in a number of management issues

FC AFA
The Academy is leading one Football club, FC AFA, calling it their own. They play in the … division of Cameroon and had quite a quick rise within the League.

Links
http://africafootacademy.de/?language=en