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Barcelona To Open New Academy Right Next To Chelsea’s Training Ground

By Chris Wright

Barcelona have confirmed that they are set to open their first English academy (and their first outside Spain) in Cobham, Surrey – just two miles up the road from Chelsea’s current training complex.

The deal will see the Catalan club stage coaching classes for children between the ages of six and 16 from April 2011 at ACS Cobham – the school currently attended by the sprogs of Chelsea’s Didier Drogba and Yossi Benayoun.

Academy coach Xevi Marce said:

“We are not coming here to be in competition with Chelsea. We are going to start slowly but surely to build a team here, train all the kids and get that passion.

“In the future we might lose a player or two to Chelsea or the other way around. It is not a problem.”

All in all, this must be great news for Arsene Wenger, who has seen the distance he has to travel for his little fishing trips sliced in half.

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Posted in Barcelona, Chelsea | 9 Comments »

By Chris on February 17th, 2011 in Barcelona, Chelsea. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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9 Responses to “Barcelona To Open New Academy Right Next To Chelsea’s Training Ground”

  1. spectator says:
    February 17, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    this is how much barcelona believe in grooming their local talent.

  2. Rich says:
    February 17, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    or how much they believe in grooming talent itself in the right way, regardless of where they were born

  3. Santi says:
    February 17, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    From what I’ve read on other sites, it only lasts 5 days. Doesn’t seem so much an Academy as much as a taster week.

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  6. vvzla says:
    February 19, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    “All in all, this must be great news for Arsene Wenger, who has seen the distance he has to travel for his little fishing trips sliced in half.” oh why dont you just shut up please

  7. Anonymous says:
    February 23, 2011 at 4:00 pm

    how do you get those young boys you will be training.
    because i got a young. talented boy in my hood

  8. teejay says:
    February 23, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    wow,so fascinating.how do u admit your your kids cuz i got a young talent.

  9. Chris says:
    February 23, 2011 at 4:23 pm

    Sorry Teejay, no idea. It all seems pretty exclusive, so you may have to ‘know somebody’ if you know what I mean.

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