10 Years Of German Academy Training.pdf

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Ten years of
Academies
26/01/2011
Constituent meeting of the Academies Committee
07/05/2001
28/02/2001
Constituent meeting of the Academies Committee
Decision by the General Assembly of the Academies
Certification of Academies
Bundesliga 2 Academies
Bundesliga Academies
2001/2002 2002/2003 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009 2009/2010 2010/2011
Rolf Rüssmann
was Chairman of
the Academies
Committee from
2002 until his
death in October
2009.
teens can thrive in, was (and continuous to
be) the key objective.
In a next step requirement specifications
and an agenda were drawn up.
From the 2001-02 season onwards the
manage ment of the German Football
League (DFL), formed at the beginning of
2001, incorporated these new structures
into the licensing regulations. One year
later the compulsory introduction of the
academies, which were growing in importance,
was extended to the Bundesliga 2.
For clubs to be issued their licence (the
precondition for admission to any official
competition), they had to hire full-time
youth coaches, whose respective qualifications
are taken into consideration
when grading the academies, with those
earning higher grades receiving higher
funding. Moreover, appropriate training
grounds had to be built, a medical department
established and co-operation with
schools initiated.
alone invested more than half a billion
euros in this period, developed a momentum
of their own towards perfection. In
the current 2011-12 season, 52.4% of
all players in the Bundesliga were educated
at an academy. Thus, thanks to the
work of the academies, national coach
Joachim Löw can tap into an ever-growing
well of high-quality young professionals,
who maintain the constant competition
within the national team. Furthermore,
the regeneration time of young, comprehensively
trained national players is far
less than that of older professionals. With
the help of the three-star evaluation system
of the academies, the League Board
has created an important incentive: the
monies from the Champions League coffers
for clubs who do not play in Europe’s
premier competition are distributed according
to the strength of their academy.
For a three-star academy, the clubs are
promised additional revenues in excess
of €300,000 on a yearly basis.
Under the chairmanship of Rolf Rüssmann
between 2002 and 2009, the certification
of academies was further pushed
by the company Double PASS. Top of the
list of priorities was the measurement
and certification of quality of the academies
of all clubs to create an objectively
assessable picture. To ensure this, everybody,
including coaches and the medical
staff, was examined. The league is convinced
that this project of quality assessment
will elevate German youth football
to an even higher level.
For years, DFL
Director Holger
Hieronymus and
Chairman of
the Academies
Committee
Andreas
Rettig have
been working
on further
improving youth
development
facilities.
Through this the framework was
specified and, over the past ten years,
the promotion of youth and elite talent in
Germany, in which the professional clubs