Introducing ASPIRE Academy

Aspire Academy is a Sport Academy foundation based in Qatar, one of the most currently countries were the sports are having a huge population increasing.

This academy has founded back in 2004, and during this period of time has been providing all the athletes training and support, a part of a secondary education on parallel.

The Academy is not only about football, and become a professional player, is about more, they provide values to all the Athletes, they teach them how to face problems in the field, but as well, they show them how to face problems in the most difficult match, the real life.

Here below, the values that they describe on their own mission:

Accountability:

"We are accountable for using and developing our individual and collective capabilities to achieve outstanding results both for the individual and for the community."


Synergy and Teamwork:

"We work together collaboratively to achieve our strategy in a spirit of cooperation and support, valuing each other’s skills and contributions."


Professionalism:

"We fulfill our responsibilities to be leaders in our professional discipline through the application of best practices in a scientific, caring and committed way."

Integrity:

"We build trust through loyalty, honesty, ethical standards and fairness. We never take advantage of a privileged position for personal gain."

Respect:

"We honor sensitively the values, rights and needs of others and embrace the diversity provided by each individual, irrespective of culture, orientation, race, class or gender."


Excellence:

"We constantly research, create and develop new solutions to deliver outstanding results for our student-athletes, partners and society."


“We develop well educated sports champions. We foster Qatar society realizing a healthy, active lifestyle.” – Said Aspire Academy CEO’s

XX TORNEO DE LA LIGA PROMISES

In less than a month begins the twentieth edition of the tournament promises league. This tournament takes place from 20 years ago and in which the guests participating teams in the league. This tournament is carried out by sub-12 players in order to represent their club and get to make a name in the world of football. This tournament has served as a showcase for players like Iniesta, Ander Herrera, Gerard Deulofeu, Munir el-Haddadi…

In the last years, the tournament is open their doors to international teams and now every time more teams around Europe is taking part in this event. Juventus, Bayern Leverkusen or PSG are competing against Spanish la liga teams to win this tournament.

The importance of this event is amazing for the future of football, this tournament is full of scouts looking for the new Messi, the new Xavi or the new Cristiano Ronaldo, and we will see that future stars of our football had appeared before in this tournament showing their ability.

There had been some cases of players in this tournament that later on had take part in the UEFA youth League. The last case is Carles Alenya from FCBarcelona, choosen as the best player in the tournament in 2010 and now captaining the blaugrana team at uefa youth league.

It's a great business opportunity for the scouts, coaches and brands to see the possible future of their businesses.

Introducing Nike Academy in to UEFA Youth

Relationship between NikeAcademy and UEFA Youth

The Nike Academy, is a project founded back in 2010, by the company NikeInc.

The aim on this project is to give the chance to the most football talented kids of the world, to become a professional football player in a future, the requirements for get in to this academy are basically two: Be less than 20 years, and have talented football skills.

Some of them have been working so hard for become a profesional player, but unluckily they were refused for big and important clubs, well so, most of this refused players get a second chance to get in to the game again in the Nike Football Academy.

The Academy is based on St George's Park National Football Centre, in the UK, and they recently added their first sponsor, the prestigious PREMIER LEAGUE.

Most of this players get the chance of their life, and they go to major leagues do what they love, play football and make it your jobs, at least for a time.

Most of these "Students" from the Nike football academy are supplied to the UEFA Youth League, and after this releases, the Academy is getting some nice prestige in terms of trainings and preparing physically and mentally all these talented players.

Nike has no economic or business proposes in this project, all the support and resources they gave to the players are free. No lucrative proposes for then, they just want to give a passionate image about the football in front of the consumer.

Sons of

The UYL is a competition that allows you to see for the first time players that you din't realized they exist because they are still in a really young age. Sometimes when you check the line ups you notice familiar surnames. This is because the sons of some ex footballers are following the path of their parents. Here is a list of some of the most outstanding surnames you can find this year:

• Justin Kluivert and Joe Van der Sar (Ajax): As their parents, Justin is forward and Joe is the goalkeeper of Ajax. Patrick Kluivert, his dad, was a really good "killer" playing for teams as F.C.Barcelona and Edwin Van der Sar has been on of the best goalkeepers in Manchester United history. 

• Lorenzo di Livio and Alberto de Rossi (Roma): Lorenzo, the son Angelo di Livio a legend of a great team as Juventus, is a really talented "mediapunta". By his way Alberto is the coach of the team and son of the midfielder and actual captain of the Rome, Daniele de Rossi.

• Luca Zidane (Real Madrid) Is the son of one of the most talented players in the history of football. Zinedine Zidane played for teams as Juventus or Real Madrid and won the World Cup with France. His son Luca is the goalkeeper of the sub-19 Real Madrid team and is international for his country. Zinedine had his other son Luca Zidane playing this competition last yar aswell with Real Madrid.

• Adrià Vilanova (F.C.Barcelona). Adrià is the central defender of F.C.Barcelona and is the son of the ex trainer Tito Vilanova who died not long time ago from a cancer while he was the coach of this spanish team.

• Niklas Tarnat (Bayern) Is the midfielder of this german team and son of the ex player of Manchester City and Bayern, Michael Tarnat who was also international for Germany in punctual ocasions.

Based on the original article: "Hijos de" from MarcadorInt