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The Academy

Clique Sports Academy F.C is an academy founded on the aspiration to use youth development in Sports to profoundly affect the local community positively and enable talented youth players achieve their potential.
The Academy admits players from 12 years Old to 24years Old.
The Program for the younger players between 12 and 18years old is to ground them in the basic skills and techniques of a professional footballer. Ball control, passing drills and shooting techniques are the major focus for this category of players.
The older players Aged between 18 and 24 years old are taught how to play in different football systems, execute coaching instructions and improve on their basic football skills. These players (as well as exceptional younger players) are exposed to high level competition like the Nigerian Football Federation Cup formerly called the F.A Cup. The Academy will also enter competitions such as the Boska Cup and The Oba’s cup in Lagos State where over 160 amateur and professional teams will enter each competition which is staged on a knock out basis. The academy players will receive good coaching and exposure before they are placed into professional clubs once their contract is up or the right club acquires them.

Cliquesports Academy has established itself as a formidable football academy in Nigeria and is arguably THE MOST EFFECTIVE ACADEMY in the country by producing the highest number of junior international football players in the last two years. The Academy has produced Kabiru Akinsola in the U17 team that won the U17 world Cup in South Korea, Dejo Olateru-Olagbegi A Goal Keeper that made it into Nigeria’s U20 team to the Egypt FIFA U20 World Cup 2009 and EDAFE EGBEDI a right midfielder at the U17 FIFA World Cup held in Nigeria in 2009.
The remarkable achievements of Cliquesports Academy demonstrates firsthand the expertise of the coaching staff and the scouting team as well as the scouting network the academy has now established to discover the right kind of players that invariably go on to make it into the Nigerian junior national teams.
Cliquesports Academy also ensures that the young players are put on a fitness program that allows them to cope with the intensity of a National team training camp. The players will perform fitness tests and drills that ensure that they will be ready to absorb the fitness tests thrown at them at the National team.

The Psychological Edge
One of the most important things that Cliquesports Academy does is to provide the players with the right psychological approach to Winning, training, Football, and to themselves. The players are taught the essence of personal discipline as well as believing in their ability to play any opposition at any level. The psychological make up of each player is different and the experience of the Clique Sports Coaching Staff is invaluable in ensuring the academy’s continued success in producing National team players for Nigeria.

Marketing
The Cliquesports Academy project provides a fantastic opportunity to market and advertise the right partners products and services as the players come into the Academy normal Nigerian teenagers and leave as Nigerian international Stars and celebrities. Our star players at the academy including those that have graduated and got contracts abroad have signed agreements that allow us to exploit their image and secure endorsement contracts for their benefit and the benefit of the Academy.
CLIQUESPORTS PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS PROGRAM is a vital youth development program that will monitor and develop youth players in school and train and nurture them till they become mature enough to play for the National team. The partner schools will have their affiliation recognized with a Certificate and their students will enjoy access to the academy’s human resources and training equipment. The program will form a network of schools that will foster friendship and develop healthy competition amongst partner schools.

ACADEMY ACHIEVEMENTS
In the 2009 Federation Cup, Clique Sports Academy got to the round of 16 in the Lagos State regional playoffs. 60 amateur and professional teams entered the competition. The Academy knocked 3 adult amateur grass roots teams during the duration of the Federation Cup run.
The Academy did even better at the Boska cup made up of 160 teams in the state and got to the Quarter finals but lost on penalty shoot out to JAH FC after 1-1 draw was played in 90 minutes. The academy won a set of new team jerseys for the effort from the sponsors of the tournament BOSKA/Orange drugs.

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