Sentence examples for academy age from inspiring English sources

At Hearts the innovative Box Soccer scheme as devised by the current Newcastle United first-team coach Ian Cathro has been implemented for the youngest academy age groups.

Elia was bounced from the Ajax academy aged 15 after just two years there.

Collett joined United's youth academy aged nine and signed youth contracts, becoming part of the club's FA Youth Cup-winning team in 2003.

His love affair with Liverpool goes back even further, to the Championship-winning era, when he joined the academy, aged nine.

He passed the junior entrance exam for Vienna's music academy aged five; at 11, he was accepted into the class of Bruno Seidlhofer alongside Nelson Freire and Martha Argerich.

One of the main beneficiaries of his experience so far has been the winger Wilfried Zaha, who was also born in Africa before, like Salako, joining Palace's academy aged 13. "One of the things that I say to Wilf is that he's got the world at his feet.

Kibirige, born in Middlesbrough, joined Newcastle's academy aged 12, after he was spotted by academy manager Mark Laycock.

Born in Ghana's capital Accra in 1992, Frimpong arrived in London as a youngster before joining Arsenal's youth academy aged nine.

County Galway-born Cunningham joined the Manchester City academy aged 16 and made his first appearance in the FA Cup win over Scunthorpe in January 2010.

The Manchester-born forward, who joined United's academy aged eight, also played 28 times during a loan spell with Sunderland, and made a further eight appearances for Preston.

Claude Puel, Lille's manager from 2002 to 2008, had been watching the Belgian closely from the moment he left his parents and three brothers in La Louviere to join the French club's academy aged 14.