How a Soccer Star is Made

I am the coach of my local youth team, between the ages of 8-12, i myself am only 23 so i still have a lot to learn, im very interested in the Ajax method of training players and what no so as i was reading about them, AGAIN, the other day, i stumbled across this article by a journalist from the New York Times, its nine pages long but it is an unbelievable read and really gives an insight into the mentality and the facilities and some of the things that go on in De Toekomst — The Future( the name of the Academy). id advise anyone who knows anything about soccer or ever dreamed about playing professionally to give this article a read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06Soccer-t.html

 

Cheers mate seems good, will get stuck into after work./

 

did you read the Article Elvis??

 

Haven't got around to it, and it slipped my mind, will read it now, .

 

Do man its a cracking read

 

Just read it, it's a great read, some scary stuff in there too,. With the set up over here, its no wonder how I'm not a pro-footballer,.

 

Its scary alright the way they make it seem like a job to some of them, but you cant argue with the success it brings and like your man says about them being successful today, if they had all their own players like De Jong, Babel, Heitinga, Van Der Vaart and Sneijder they'd be some force then

 

Add to that Van der Vaart, Zlatan, Mido, plus the present crop.

Going after the 5 year old too,. Talking about body fat and all, very surreal.

 

Same in mid to late 90's with ajax, as soon as the bosman ruling came in they lost quality players for nothing, a selling club is all they are now.

Unreal academy and great philosophy on how ther game should be played.

 

thats exactly what the whole article is about Derek, its a great read

 

will give it a read, cheers for posting it mate.

 

our young lads would give them a game now methinks

 

Have to bump this up as i think everyone should have a read of it.

 

10 months later and we'll finally find out.