We are back and 2022 is full of opportunities for young players!

We are back and 2022 is full of opportunities!

Published on: 23/02/2022
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We are back and 2022 is full of opportunities!

Let 2022 be the year you breakthrough with NF Academy. We had an amazing start already and we have several exciting highlights to look forward to. After two years of pandemic, this is the year you can take the next step internationally and keep growing as a player together with NF Academy.

The pandemic levels are decreasing, and finally we in NF Academy can focus on what we love the most. Developing young players that want to achieve much more in football on and off the pitch.

This year players can participate in several NF international programs and elite tournaments swell to test what they learned. Let’s do it together!

Check out all the international programs we have for you

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We are back and 2022 is full of opportunities!

Let 2022 be the year you breakthrough with NF Academy. We had an amazing start already and we have several exciting highlights to look forward to. After two years of pandemic, this is the year you can take the next step internationally and keep growing as a player together with NF Academy.

The pandemic levels are decreasing, and finally we in NF Academy can focus on what we love the most. Developing young players that want to achieve much more in football on and off the pitch.

This year players can participate in several NF international programs and elite tournaments swell to test what they learned. Let’s do it together!

The pandemic is gone, and finally we in NF Academy can focus on what we love. Development for young players that want to take their next step on and of the pitch in their career. And this is the year you may do it together with us,if you apply for one or several of our programs.

Check out all the international programs we have for you

We are back!

NF Academy returned from the NF Match Camp Salou for the first international program since the start of Covid-19. We are really excited and happy to finally be possible to gather back our players, former and new players.

-Hopefully we can continue our pathway, and give all of our knowledge and all of our track record and competence to assist, to support and mainly to allow young players across Scandinavia to have the international opportunities to develop further more their skills and careers.

110 players participated during the NF Match Camp in Salou outside Barcelona.

-It was a fantastic experience, four days, very intense, four days of a good assesment and a good combination of activity inside and outside the pitch. And for us, it served as a launching on these hundred players on what we can create as a base for all the adventure that 2022 will offer, says Gonçalo Nunes.

And there is realy a lot of adventures coming up. Both international tournaments and programs that will help develop any young player.

NF Academy Match Camp in Salou
NF Academy Match Camp in Salou

Ibercup Portugal is coming!

One of the biggest highlights of 2022 will be the Ibercup Cascais in Portugal from 10th till 16th of April. An elite tournament that gathers top teams from all over the world. It is also a great time to travel together to Portugal with the family due to the great weather and locations surrounding the tournament location.

We will have here in Portugal, one of the biggest tournaments in the world of youth football, which is the Ibercup Cascais, a fantastic tournament that brings competitive teams from all over the world.

Ibercup joins also the main players and the main competitors from Portugal like Sporting CP and their scouts. It´s a fantastic period also to be traveling to Portugal. Great weather, Easter is always a good time for people to come and for the boys that want to reach for the ultimate challenge. For sure a great challenge we have ahead of us.

Wanna join our teams? Find out more here

NF Academy playing in previous Ibercup editions
NF Academy playing in previous Ibercup editions

Future Cup is the best starting point

14th till 18th of April NF Academy will participate in the Future cup. A tournament that is perfect for the players that are taking their first international step.

We will be competing in Sweden, where we will play in the Future Cup, therefore, we are gathering younger ages of 2012, 2011 and 2010. Together with NF Academy, it will be a good first experience for a lot of them, to also prepare them for what will be the elite tournaments, tells Nunes.

The game never stops

In the upcoming weeks till 7th of March NF Academy staff will be welcoming around 120 players from all over Scandinavia, from US, Canada and Brazil for the winter edition of the Elite Training Camp in the beautiful Cascais area in Portugal.

-It will be again a fantastic experience combined with the Sporting CP academy activity, competition against Sporting CP teams. It’s another tough challenge and possibility for us to evaluate and help assist on the development of NF Academy young players says NF Academy International Director Gonçalo Nunes.

In May we close the spring tournaments with Spar Nord Elite Cup in Esbjerg, Denmark before we begin the NF International and Qualification camps in the summer between June and August.

Spar Nord Esbjerg is a tournament in Denmark, where some of the best academies in Scandinavia will participate. This is the ultimate chance to showcase your talent to scouts that will be watching.

NF Academy teams playing a match in Spain
NF Academy teams playing a match in Spain
NF Academy player vs a Spanish player
NF Academy player vs a Spanish player

The summer begins with NF International Trials

One of our favorite programs are the NF International and Qualification camp.

NF Academy will visit more than 30 different locations in Scandinavia with the goal of providing quality training, contributing to the development of local players and to identify talents that we can offer international opportunities.

At the event of NF International, 2 players will be awarded the prize of “Player of the Camp” and will then advance onto NF Elite Qualification Camp. At this camp, there will be another selection of 8 players winning a week-long tryout stay filled with training at one of the world’s best academies, the academy of Sporting CP.

Find out more about NF International Trials

NF Academy vs Sporting CP
NF Academy vs Sporting CP

The time is now

NF Academy wants to give young players the chance to take their next step in theirs career. It´s possible thanks to our staff, that will provide all the help needed. Somewhere down the road you might even get the chance on a bigger club, because a lot of clubs like Sporting CP are scouting our international camps and tournaments.

– NF Academy continues to share the same vision and share the same care for all of our youngsters. Mainly for us is to be the most specific and to give proper guidance, assistance and development to all the players that trust in us, independently, the level that they are.

It will be always the kickoff for the level we believe that every player, boy or girl, independent of age with commitment, with good guidance, with good environment around them, they can always evolve, they can always get better and they can always work together with us to reach their specific goals, says NF Academy International Director Gonçalo Nunes

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NF Academy training camps
NF Academy training camps

UPCOMING NF ACADEMY EVENTS

Date Program Country Place Age Group
29 Sep - 05 Oct 2024 NF Elite Training Camp
Week 40
Portugal Lisbon / Estoril 2009-2014
13 - 19 Oct 2024 NF Elite Training Camp
Week 42
Portugal Lisbon / Estoril 2009-2014
27 Oct - 02 Nov 2024 NF Elite Training Camp
Week 44
Portugal Lisbon / Estoril 2009-2014
08 - 12 Jan 2025 NF Selection Riga Cup Latvia Riga 2010
16 - 19 Jan 2025 NF Selection Riga Cup Latvia Riga 2011
22 - 26 Jan 2025 NF Selection Riga Cup Latvia Riga 2008-2009
30 Jan - 02 Feb 2025 NF Selection Riga Cup Latvia Riga 2012
05 - 09 Feb 2025 NF Selection Riga Cup Latvia Riga 2013
09 - 15 Feb 2025 NF Elite Training Camp
Week 7
Portugal Lisbon / Estoril 2009-2014
16 - 22 Feb 2025 NF Elite Training Camp
Week 8
Portugal Lisbon / Estoril 2010-2016
23 Feb - 01 Mar 2025 NF Elite Training Camp
Week 9
Portugal Lisbon / Estoril 2010-2016
12 - 17 Apr 2025 NF Selection Costa Daurada (BOYS) Spain Salou 2009-2014
12 - 17 Apr 2025 NF Selection Costa Daurada (GIRLS) Spain Salou 2007-2010
17 - 21 Apr 2025 NF Selection Future Cup Sweden Gothenburg 2008-2015

Check the complete Event Calendar here.

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