Chelsea to open soccer school in the Philippines
by rick olivares
Chelsea FC, one of the world’s biggest football clubs with a history of excellence and achievement, will be opening a soccer school in partnership with The Younghusband Football Academy, the first ever of its kind, in the Philippines this May 15th, 2012.
Chelsea,
which is a team that is full of world-class footballers like Didier Drogba,
John Terry, Frank Lampard, and Fernando Torres, will be tapping current
Philippine national team and Loyola Meralco Sparks mainstays James and Phil
Younghusband to spearhead this English club’s initial foray in the Philippines.
The Younghusband brothers were Chelsea Academy team players under former
managers Gianluca Vialli and Jose Mourinho. In 2005, Mourinho included Phil in
his pre-season squad after he finished as their youth team’s top scorer in the
previous season.
Aside
from their national team and club duties, the brothers also run The
Younghusband Football Academy, now in its third year of grassroots football
development in the country.
Prior
to the official launch of The Chelsea FC Soccer School there will be a Chelsea
FC Soccer School summer camp powered by The Younghusband Football Academy and will have a limited number of slots for intermediate
and advanced football training that will also be overseen by some of the club’s
coaches. The age groups will be divided as follows Under-8, U-10, U-12, and
U-16 for boys and girls.
The
Younghusband Football Academy summer camp will be held at the Evia Football
Field in Las Piñas on April 17, 19, 24, 26 as well as on May 3, 8, and10. The
culminating activity, the Official Launch of the Chelsea Soccer School, will be
held on May 15 at the SM Mall of Asia.
For
more information about The Chelsea FC Soccer School, please visit www.theyounghusbandfootballacademy.com
or contact 09478357519.
Information about Chelsea FC
Chelsea FC was founded in 1905 by Henry Augustus Mears.
Home games are played at Stamford Bridge stadium, the original site Mears chose
for the club. The team had mixed fortunes over the years, not winning a major
trophy until the 1950s and moving up and down between divisions several times.
The Blues improved their standing since the 1990s to become one of the most
successful clubs in English football. They won English Premier League titles in
2004–05 and 2005–06, adding to their only previous league win, in 1954–55 (then
in the Football League First Division), and making them the second English team
to win consecutive championships since the founding of the Premier League in
1992. Chelsea added a fourth league title in 2009–10, setting a new Premier
League record by scoring 103 goals over the course of the season. They took the
European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1971 and 1998 and the Union of European Football
Associations (UEFA) Super Cup in 1998. Chelsea FC won the Football Association
Challenge Cup (FA Cup) six times—in 1970, 1997, 2000, 2007, 2009, and 2010.
Information about the Younghusband Football
Academy
The
Younghusband Football Academy is a series of enhancement clinics for football skills around
the Philippines. Philippine National Football Team players and brothers James
and Phil Younghusband who both played for Chelsea FC, one of the largest
football clubs in the world, established TYFA in January 2010. Both have UEFA
coaching credentials with Phil having a level 2 UEFA coaching badge and James
having a level 1 UEFA coaching badge.
Nice!!!
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