IVORY COAST FOOTBALL ACADEMY

Students from the Ivoire Football Academie during a practice at the academy located in a rural area 40 kilometers from the commercial centre Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday 12 April 2006. The Ivoire Academie has produced 15 players that are now playing in Europe's champions league clubs and 12 graduates from the academy are in the Ivory Coast national squad. As an offspring of the ASEC Mimosas academy founded in 1994, the Ivoire Academie is home to 40 live in students between the ages of 10 and 18. Students are selected by a process of reviewing selection matches in various impoverished areas in the politially torn country. Only 7 students are chosen from a group of 700.

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Students from the Ivoire Football Academie during a practice at the academy located in a rural area 40 kilometers from the commercial centre Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday 12 April 2006. The Ivoire Academie has produced 15 players that are now playing in Europe's champions league clubs and 12 graduates from the academy are in the Ivory Coast national squad. As an offspring of the ASEC Mimosas academy founded in 1994, the Ivoire Academie is home to 40 live in students between the ages of 10 and 18. Students are selected by a process of reviewing selection matches in various impoverished areas in the politially torn country. Only 7 students are chosen from a group of 700.