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ASPIRE Football Dreams
ASPIRE Football Dreams is a unique and fascinating humanitarian football project in developing countries on three continents, aimed at identifying the future talents of World football.
ASPIRE Football Dreams aims to give the opportunity to young football players from developing countries to reach the height of international football through careful training and development, while focusing on school education and personality development at the same time.
ASPIRE's aim is to develop champions in sport but also champions in life.
The young talents will be prepared on how to manage their lives successfully, as well as to play for professional football clubs and, hopefully, their respective national teams in the future.
ASPIRE cooperates closely with the national football associations of the youngsters involved.
The selected talents inspire the local ASPIRE football players by training, competing, studying and living with them as role models.
ASPIRE's further objectives are to be recognized as a leading sports institute in the World and to establish an elite global Football Talent Identification Program.
Launched in 2007, the ASPIRE Football Dreams project has already tested over one million young footballers from Asia, Latin America and Africa, as part of the largest-ever talent search within the sport.
The project relies on a team of professional coaches and scouts, as well as thousands of volunteers.
2011 Countries:
AFRICA: Senegal, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria
ASIA: Vietnam, Thailand
LATIN AMERICA: Guatemala, Costa Rica, Paraguay
The top players from each country travel to Qatar and are hosted at ASPIRE Academy, where they receive top-level training from Academy coaches and play games each week against other teams. World famous football stars visit and share their advice and experiences, and many of the young aspirants receive scholarships to ASPIRE Academy or ASPIRE Senegal.
Both ASPIRE Academy and ASPIRE Senegal are international elite sports training institutes with a multi-national student population and a commitment to awarding student scholarships to talents from underdeveloped nations. The philosophy of ASPIRE is for every student-athlete to maximize his athletic talent and go on to play for his country’s national team. The Academy does not recruit foreign student-athletes for the purpose of having them play for Qatar national teams.
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