France being the host of UEFA Euro Cup this year seems to be the strongest contender in the UEFA Euro Cup and looks like one of the worthy team to lift the UEFA Euro Cup. Last time France won the UEFA Euro Cup was in 2000 and this time team is a mix of young and senior players, and are eager to take their team to the finals and make their country proud. At a very young age “Adrien Rabiot “ started to learn and train at Paris Saint-Germain F.C.

Admission Times have shortlisted top five France football academies where students can learn the soccer skills and tricks to become the next aspiring soccer heroes.

The Best Football Academies In FRANCE For Students To Get Coaching From Are –

1. Olympique Lyonnais – commonly referred to as simply Lyon, or OL) is based in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes. It plays in France’s highest football division, Ligue 1.

The club’s most successful period has been the 21st century. The club won its first Ligue 1 championship in 2002, starting a national record-setting streak of seven successive titles. Lyon has also won a record seven Trophée des Champions, five Coupe de France titles and three Ligue 2 Championships.

Olympique Lyonnais is one of the popular clubs in France. A 2009 survey found that about 11% of the country’s football fans support the club, a proportion Lyon shared with Paris Saint-Germain, behind only Olympique de Marseille. The club’s nickname, Les Gones, means “The Kids” in Lyon’s regional dialect of Arpitan.

Key youth products: Clement Grenier, Loic Remy, Alexandre Lacazzette, Samuel Umtiti, Nabil Fekir, Maxime Gonalons, Karim Benzema, Hatem Ben Arfa.

Address – Parc Olympique Lyonnais, 10 Avenue Simone Veil, 69150 Décines-Charpieu – Lyon

OFFICIAL SITE – www.olweb.fr

2. Racing Club de Lens – based in the northern city of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department.

The Northern French club has enjoyed something of a hot streak in recent years, including giving a debut to some of the

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best young players in European football including Monaco’s Geoffrey Kondogbia, Real Madrid defender Raphael Varane and PSG full-back Serge Aurier.

Unfortunately for the senior side, they look like they are about to be relegated back to Ligue 2.

Key youth products: Geoffrey Kondogbia, Raphael Varane, Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Serge Aurier, Thorgan Hazard.

Address – Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Avenue Alfred Maes, 62300 – LENS

OFFICIAL SITE – www.rclens.fr

3. Paris Saint-Germain Football Club – commonly referred to as PSG based in Paris, whose first team play in the highest tier of French football, the Ligue 1.

Paris Saint-Germain’s squad has been filled with a number of expensive imports since the club was bought

by a Qatar-based investment fund, but the youth academy has been churning out talent since before and after the 2012 takeover.

There are a total of 35 PSG schooled players in top divisions across Europe at this very moment. Adrien Rabiot is the biggest home-grown talent in the current squad, while 27-year-old midfielder Clement Chantome recently left for Bordeaux.

Key youth products: Adrien Rabiot, Clement Chantome

Address – 24 Rue du Commandant Guilbaud, 75016 Paris

OFFICIAL SITE –

France – www.psg.fr
India – www.psgfootballacademy.in

4. Grenoble Foot 38 – Grenoble Foot 38, commonly referred to as simply GF38, is a French association football club based in Grenoble, a city situated at the foot of the French Alps.

Grenoble plays its home matches at the Stade des Alpes, a recently built complex based in the heart of the city. The team is managed by Jean-Louis Garcia.

Key youth products: Olivier Giroud

Address – Stade des Alpes, 3 Boulevard Jean Pain, 38100 – Grenoble

OFFICIAL SITE – www.gf38.fr

5. Le Havre Athletic Club – based in Le Havre, Normandy. The club was founded originally as an athletics and rugby club in 1872. plays its home matches at the Stade Océane.

Real factory of great players, the HAC has trained many big names in French football having played for Ciel et Marine, like Charles N’Zogbia, Matthias Lepiller and Paul Pogba represented the Le Havre training in the most prestigious jerseys.

Le Havre is known as ‘les ciel et marine’ in France, which translates as ‘the sky and navy blues’. These colours were chosen by the club’s English founders as they were those of their alma maters, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge: the anthem of the club is played to the melody of “God Save the Queen” to mark the English origins of the club.

Key youth products: Paul Pogba

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