FOOTBALL TALENT DEVELOPMENT

The project

Following the Chinese government’s Master plan emphasizing football as a national priority, in FTD we have designed a complete plan aimed at bringing China as an international reference in this discipline, expanding the access to football and its best practices, emphasizing both technical skills and sports values. Across the boys and girls, mainly through the school system as well as powering the natural talent of a whole country. Merging partner’s investment and public support, Football talent Development (FTD) will develop on a long term perspective a unique and multidimensional programme becoming the biggest developing grass-roots football project ever in the world.

FOCUS ON

Strengthening the national structures with a special focus on schools by training and educating thousands of local teachers and other sports professionals all over the country, thus creating in all the schools a dense network of skilled experts.
Designing and organising top quality football competitions at all school levels (local, regional and national) to bring into practice all the skills developed through the training and educating phase.
Using football to transmit positive values and healthy habits to kids through a large group of specially trained educators.
Finding and training the best talents that tomorrow will become the prepared leaders of the National Team through a wide scouting effort aimed at selecting the best talents who will eventually join state-of-the art academies to be coached by international staff.