PSG Brand Diversification Director, Fabien Allègre, PSG Academy USA President, Ravy Truchot, club legend Maxwell Scherrer and other officials opening the new site of the Academy in Miami on Monday.
Miami: French football giants Paris Saint-Germain on Monday continued its push into the North American market by opening a state-of-the-art residential football academy in Florida, USA.
The academy and its 20,000-seater stadium also become the headquarters of the PSG Academy USA.
The PSG Academy USA is the largest campus set up to date by a European club on American soil.
PSG Brand Diversification Director Fabien Allègre and PSG Academy USA President Ravy Truchot officially opened the new site of the Academy in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, in Florida, which marks the starting point of their ambitious PSG Academy campaign that is set to spread across the United States.
Club legend Maxwell Scherrer also attended the event.
It is the largest site ever occupied by a European club academy on American soil and the first campus to host the world’s first PSG Academy Pro residency program.
The official franchise-holder for PSG in America since 2012, PSG Academy USA today welcomes over 1,500 children in Florida and opened a new Academy in Los Angeles last summer. PSG Academy USA aims to open new sites in the next few months, and then gradually expand into 10 or so additional Academies on American soil, with the aim of taking more than 10.000 budding footballers under their wing within the next three years. To support its expansion strategy in the US, the Club will aim to engage new partners among US domestic clubs to bring their expertise to PSG Academy USA. These partners would be key players in PSG ability to reach its objective of three to five new academies per year.
Truchot announced: “With this state-of-the-art Campus, the Paris Saint-Germain Academy USA has become a stronghold for football in the United States. We are operating on an outstanding site here that includes five pitches and boasts top-class facilities, including a 20,000-seater stadium and a residential program that can welcome over 100 young players per season. From these headquarters, we will share the club’s expertise in terms of football coaching methods in order to shape a new generation of American players both on and off the pitch.”
Three new academies will be set up in other US states in 2020.
Year-round, the PSG Academy welcomes more than 18,500 children aged between 4 and 17 in 14 countries across the globe: France, Brazil, Canada, the USA, the UK, Portugal, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Qatar, Germany, Russia and Thailand.
