Barcelona Lagos Academy Begins 2021/ 2022 Season In September

Chairman of the Barcelona Academy in Nigeria, Leslie Oghomienor says the 2021/ 2022 season of the Barca Lagos Academy will kick off in September 2021.

The Barça Academy was established in Nigeria in September 2016 at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere. The academy since its inception, has been creating platforms to bolster the development of grassroots football in Nigeria, catering for players between 6-18 years old. The academy has an overall aim to create an experience through sports with a heavy emphasis on creative values.

In the three years of its existence in Nigeria, the academy has expanded to Lekki and Gbagada, to better service the Nigerian market.

The academy has two primary programs; a competitive program opens to public entry for anyone who wants to join and the elite program designed to prepare the best and brightest football players for the competitive world of international football. As one of its key initiatives, the Elite Project aims to identify the best players, so that they can promote their careers and the academy by playing local and international tournaments whilst sourcing talents for Barcelona.

The project has witnessed 6 to 7 year old players emerging as champions from international tournaments and looks forward to catching more young talents and developing them in the cognitive level.

The children in this project engage in international tournaments bi-annually to expose them to various levels of expertise.

Alongside the elite project, the academy curated a programme to fit the juvenile team which includes housing, feeding and Spanish classes. These activities are developed in such a way that every player in the academy is instilled with the methodology of Barcelona. Each team is evaluated weekly with values being at the forefront of modules, often ahead of sporting considerations.