Youth
Football Academy
Felix Darmawan
DP12031041
High Intermediate 4
Sunday : 08.00 – 12.00 / Room 304
Topic : Football
Title : Benefits From Having A Great
Youth Football Academy
Purpose : To inform the readers
Type Of Writing : Expository
I.
Introductory Paragraph
a. What
is football academy
b. The
importance of youth academy
c. Thesis
Statement :
Having a great football academy will be beneficial
for both football clubs and nation, such as building a new star player, not spending
more money on expensive player, and finally having future football club or
national team with many achievement from
players from their youth academy.
II.
Body Paragraph
a. Make
a wonder kid to star football player
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Use scouting to search child who have a
potential to become a good football player in the future
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The requirement to making a good
football academy
b. Youth
academy will help a club in finance
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Club don’t need to spend much money to
buy a star player
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From selling the player from academy,
the club will get a revenue
c. Can get achievement from have a good youth
academy
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We all know Barcelona can get
achievement from their academy
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Germany, who won the World Cup 2014 with
the players from the good youth academy system
III.
Conclusion
Football
academy have a many benefits to club or national team who focus on developing
their academy. They can have new star player without buy from other team, can
help club finance with selling the player from youth academy and then the club
and national team may get many achievement in the future. So, the club or
national team who focus to developing their football academy like investor who
investment on the stock. Because the result of investment always in the future.
Benefits From Having A Great
Football Youth Academy
Nowadays, there are many clubs which
spend a big amount of money to buy some new players. Like Real Madrid,
Manchester United and City, Chelsea, PSG and many other big teams. It’s
not prohibited to buy expensive players.
But, how about the mid-bottom teams which don’t have big money to buy a new
player, and more important is that the national team will not have a good player because their club don’t
focus on developing football youth academy. Before I tell the benefits from having
a great football academy, I want to tell you what the youth academy is it?
Football academy is a place to train and develop young players become a
professional football players in the future. Some football academy are well
known in the world, like Barcelona with La Masia who created Lionel Messi,
Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas and many more players. And then Ajax academy which
helps many players like Luis Suarez, Clarence Seedorf, Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard
and still many other players who graduate from Ajax academy. And how about
Indonesia? Indonesia actually has many talents in football, but the youngster find
it hard to develop the star player because facilities in a football academy in
Indonesia is only average, but if PSSI focus on developing the youth academy,
and building a good academy, it’s not impossible to Indonesia to create many
star players. From the example above, having
a great football academy will benefit both the club and national team. Such as
build a new star players, will advantages the club finance because they are
don’t need to buy a expensive player even they can get revenue from selling
players from the youth academy, and finally in the future football club or
national team can get many achievement from using players from having a great
football academy.
First, with the great youth academy, clubs can create a new star player from the
young player. To search any players who have the potential to become a star
player, clubs should have a good scouting program. Because, good scout, with
their capability, can find the young players who have a talent, skills, and
potential. Not only scout who have a ‘feeling; with the wonder kid players.
Sometimes, Managers or Coach club also have a good feeling to find wonderkid.
We know how Sir Alex Ferguson can find the talent of Cristiano Ronaldo? So, how
about Cristiano Ronaldo career nowadays? He can get 2 trophies Ballon D’or
(best players award of the world), become the highest transfer value from
Manchester United to Real Madrid (until broken by Gareth Bale). And the last
season, Paul Pogba whose the talent was ignored by Manchester United can show
his shine with Juventus and become a young best player in FIFA World Cup 2014. That
is the example how important to have a good scouting or manager in finding the
wonder kids. And then, to make good football academy the club should have good
facilities too. Like a pitch, gym, the players can get good nutrition , and the
important thing is giving a chance to play with the senior team in which the
youngster can get the experience.
Second,
football academy will help the
clubs especially mid-lower club in their finance. For example Southampton.
Soton (nickname from Southampton) is one team whose a great academy in England.
There are many players from Soton academy who have high value, like Gareth Bale
(the expensive player in the world), Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, Adam Lallana, Luke Shaw and so on. By selling
the players who shaped in their academy with the high prices, is not surprised
if now Southampton has a better financial condition than Southampton 5 years
ago.
Third, it is possible to get the achievement by using players from
the academy. For example, Barcelona. Barcelona in 2009 got the 6 titles in
the one season. More amazingly, in their starting line up there are 7-8 players
from La Masia (Barcelona academy) such as Valdes, Pique, Puyol, Xavi, Busquets,
Iniesta, Messi, and Pedro. And then, Germany also get the benefits from developing
their football academy. Germany won the World Cup 2014 with the young squad.
There are only 2 players in their squad who are above 30 years of age. In the beginning, in
Euro 2000 Germany failed to pass the group phase. So, after that tournament,
DFB (association football of Germany) focus on building a good youth academy. Finally,
Germany tasted the sweet moment after focusing on developing the academy.
From the explanation we can conclude that
if clubs or national teams focus on developing their football academy, they
will get many benefits from it. We can’t say that it is a bad way to buy expensive players every transfer window.
It depends on the club philosophy. Real Madrid is one of the many teams that always
buy new players every year. But, they also have a good youth academy. Juan
Mata, Alvaro Negredo, Morata are the ones who graduated from Castilla (Real
Madrid academy), but they can’t find place to play with Real Madrid, because
Real prefer to buy a new player than try
players from their academy. Building a great football academy will give many
benefits for the clubs or national teams. They do not need to spend a lot of
money to buy good players every season and in the long run both clubs and
national team can get better achievement not only nationally but also
internationally. Youth football academy surely is a solution to create world
class players.