The Gabala Football Academy”s coaching staff are launching another trip abroad to improve their theoretical and practical skills. The trip team will visit the Lion Football Club of France under the lead of Academy director Stanley Brard from Wednesday to this Monday. The visiting staff also includes vice-director Karimov, as well as coaches of higher age groups – Famil Khalilov (U-17), Zaur Hajiyev (U-16), Huseyngulu Guliyev (U-15) and Khagani Mammadov (U-14). The aim of the trip is to catch a close view on activity fields of Lion, which is of the leading clubs of Europe. Just to remember, Lion is the name called by local fans instead of official name of Olympic.
The trip program seems impressive also watching trainings of different age groups and setting excahnge of experience with local specialists. Moreover, our delegation will see lively 2 matches of Lion”s A team against Monako in the French Championship and Viktoria (Plzen, Chzech).
It is worth to describe why the focus in on Lion. So the French club”s Football Academy is amongst the top 5 clubs across Europe. The Lion Football Academy are staying second after Barcelona in a row of clubs exporting players European states most. Being winners of the French Championsip for many times and earning domestic cup, their first team is set up by players produced from the Lion Academy. So it is going to be much benficial to our specialtst visiting the first-class academy of Europe.