Paris Saint-Germain Academy continues its expansion in the Middle East
A Paris Saint-Germain Academy is opening in Dubai and is getting ready to welcome its first set of young players from September onwards, for the 2022-2023 season.
The mission of the PSG Academy UAE is to provide young residents of Dubai (aged 4 to 18) with a healthy and ambitious sporting environment so that they can develop their technical and personal skills in weekly training sessions, including after-school training. The football school has set up partnerships with the region’s schools and will also offer summer camps and personalised coaching.
In the long term, the project will be rolled out across the whole United Arab Emirates.
The PSG ACADEMY UAE benefits from solid expertise as it will be run by Thallium Consulting, a consultancy firm based in the Emirates for the last 12 years, which already has several years’ experience running football academies in Dubai. The technical staff will be made up of enthusiastic, qualified and experienced coaches – some of whom are former professional players – who have been taught the Paris Saint-Germain training methods.
The aim of the PSG ACADEMY UAE will be to train the children using the Paris Saint-Germain training methods, to ensure that they improve their football skills while integrating the club’s fundamental values, which include excellence, respect, effort and teamwork. The Academy will be open to boys and girls, as well as disabled players in specially-designed training sessions.
A grand opening attended by the media, officials from Paris Saint-Germain and some of the club’s former star players will be held in January 2023.
With this locally-based expertise and ongoing guidance from the club itself, the PSG ACADEMY UAE has the goal of becoming the best football school in the United Arab Emirates.
This marks the start of a new chapter for the Paris Saint-Germain Academy, whose aim is always to provide an outstanding environment where young players can benefit from the club’s unique training methods, to enable them to develop their skills while having fun.
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About the Paris Saint-Germain Academy
The Paris Saint-Germain Academy is a football school that is open to boys and girls from 4 to 17 years of age. For the 2022-2023 season, it is established in 19 different countries (USA, Canada, Brazil, France & French West Indies & French Guiana, Wales, England, Germany, Portugal, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, Russia, Egypt, Senegal, Rwanda, South Korea, Thailand, Japan and China), with 163 training centres.
Around 22,500 children attend the Academies every year, half of whom live in countries other than France. The Paris Saint-Germain Academy’s success reflects the Club’s ever-increasing popularity both in France and abroad.
In these training centres, around 600 coaches trained by the Club offer top-level coaching and guidance, with great attention paid to the values of excellence, fun and fair play, in order to make the experience as fulfilling as possible. The coaching at the Paris Saint-Germain Academy is representative of that of the world-renowned European club. Whether they attend the training school all year round or join a training camp during school holidays, the children benefit from top-quality coaching using Paris Saint-Germain’s training methods.
The Paris Saint-Germain Academy is part of the Club’s international development strategy and provides a doorway into the Paris Saint-Germain universe for youngsters from all over the globe.