AS Monaco announces the launch of an Elite group
Pursuing its mission to train young talents, the AS Monaco Academy is launching its Elite group, which will benefit from this season from stronger links with the professional group and a new calendar of meetings.
The result of a reflection on its global project for the development of young potential, this new orientation marks the Club’s desire to define the best possible training course for its young players.
The Elite group, which mainly concerns elements aged 19 to 21 and will rely in particular on the finalist generation of the French U19 Championship, will be supervised by Damien Perrinelle. His experience as an assistant coach in the first team for the past two seasons, as well as his profile, will ensure continuity with the professional group.
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Engaged until now in the French National Championship 2, the Elite group will participate this season in a competition bringing together some of the best European clubs within the prestigious Premier League International Cup.
This calendar will soon be supplemented by meetings against foreign clubs or French seniors.
The purpose of these new provisions is to optimize the training time of young players and to confront them more easily with the requirements of professionalism, an approach tested a few months ago during a meeting between the reserve and the U23s of Manchester United, at the Performance Centre.
The Club will rely in particular on its new infrastructures β La Diagonale, bringing together the various promotions of the Academy, and the Performance Center β to carry out this project.
Paul Mitchell, Sporting Director of AS Monaco:
βThrough this new approach, the Club wishes to continue to strengthen the impact on the first team, like the nine players from the Academy who have started with the pros over the past two seasons. Β»
Pascal de Maesschalck, Director of Young Player Development at AS Monaco:
“In the search for the best training course, this opportunity is the best way to develop the various bridges in our current ecosystem, and to bring AS Monaco and Cercle Bruges even closer together. Β»
The AS Monaco Academy, where five world champion players have been trained, intends to increase its training skills, which is more than ever part of the Club’s DNA. In November, the CIES placed AS Monaco among the clubs having trained the most active professional players in Europe.