The Abidjan Football Training Center has a close relationship with the Cote d'Ivoire giants Abidjan Mimosa Club. In other words, the Abidjan Football Training Center, the football school founded by Marc Kulu, is Abidjan Mimosa.
The club's youth training base. This football school is excellent, that's all List can say. In the past, List had always looked down on African football, but after seeing this football school, Lister's concept completely changed.
The hardware facilities of the Abidjan Football Training Center are very good, of course not as good as the youth training camps of European giants. But it is not easy to have such a superb football school on the land of Africa. More importantly, Abidjan Football Training
The software facilities of the center are also very good. It not only teaches children to play football, but also has specialized cultural classes. This is very remarkable.
Many children in Côte d'Ivoire do not have the capital to go to school because their families are too poor. And although education in Côte d'Ivoire has developed in recent years, it is only for the middle class. The poor in Côte d'Ivoire, who make up the largest proportion, cannot receive education. Therefore,
The children of poor people in Côte d'Ivoire will still be poor when they grow up. But it is not simple for such a football school to teach them cultural knowledge.
"Mr. Kulu, your football school is really good. But I would like to ask how you deal with your players. Is there anyone who will come and poach some players privately?"
Mark Kulu shook his head and said with a smile: "No matter how old the children here are, our school has signed a contract with their parents, and it is impossible for them to leave privately. Of course, no club in Cote d'Ivoire dares to poach me.
players.”
Riester also smiled, but he understood in his heart. In a country like Cote d'Ivoire, the domestic football world is more closed. As a domestic giant, Abidjan Mimosa Club must have a strong potential. There will definitely be no one in the country.
Dare to poach his players. Unless they don't want to live anymore.
"There's a competition over there. Let's go over and take a look."
It should be a game for children aged sixteen or seventeen. Mark Kulu nodded and took Lister to the sidelines and sat down. Then he proudly said to Lister: "Did you see it? These players are of the same age as Cote d'Ivoire.
The best player in the period. All the talented players from Ivory Coast are at my school.”
Riester smiled and didn't reply. It's not that he doesn't agree with Mark Kulu's words, but this matter is obvious. There are not many people in Côte d'Ivoire who have the opportunity to receive training from such a formal football school, and there is only one in Côte d'Ivoire.
A formal football school. Otherwise, this football school would not be the envy of all Ivorian players.
The physical fitness of black players is indeed good. Players who are sixteen or seventeen years old have already strong bodies. But after seeing too many black players, Lister can’t tell who is who. Everyone looks the same, just like
Some people say that Europeans look the same to East Asians. Lister feels the same way now when he looks at these Ivorian players, why do they all look so similar. There are really several players with very good skills among them. Of course there are also
Some are physically strong and some are fast.
Lister looked at it for a long time and nodded. These players still lack some discipline. In terms of personal strength, they are better than the Czech players of the same age. But after watching it for a while, Lister could only look at it again.
He looked at Mark Kulu sitting next to him. He was indeed entitled to be proud, because Lister had already identified several players among these young players.
During the 2006 World Cup, several players of the Cote d'Ivoire national team, Riester, came out of the game in front of him. Including Arsenal's main center back Kolo Toure, and Cote d'Ivoire's small forward Bakari Kone
.
Apart from Drogba, these are the few Ivorian stars that List can remember. Eboue and Toure both played for Arsenal and are relatively well-known. And the main reason is that there are two pairs of brothers in the Ivory Coast national team.
One of the more famous pairs is the Toure brothers. Both of them are successful, one is the top defender in the Premier League and the other is the top midfielder in the Premier League. In addition to their brothers, there is also a pair of brothers in the Ivory Coast national team, the Cone brothers.
Although the Cone brothers are not as famous as the Toure brothers, they are still players worth more than 10 million euros in the future. If these players can be introduced to Europe, the profit will be not a little bit. This football school has truly conquered Ivory Coast.
Young geniuses.
"Mr. Kulu, how about I take away a few of these players?"
"It's not a big problem."
Mark Kulu nodded. But he also said: "Mr. Cherny, these players are trained by our school with great difficulty. Although they are only sixteen or seventeen years old, they are already the best players in Côte d'Ivoire.
.”
Lister understood what Mark Culu meant. He made money by selling these players. Lister said nonchalantly: "How about I give you 30,000 US dollars to take away a player?"
Mark Kulu looked at Riester, without any rejection, and nodded directly. The current Ivorian players, even those who have played the main role in the Abidjan Mimosa Club, are worth only one hundred thousand US dollars at most, which is still basically the same.
There is a price but no market. The value of players in European football is rising steadily, but the value of players in Africa is still very low.
Now these players from his school will enter the club in Cote d'Ivoire. At that time, all he can get is 10,000 US dollars, and for 10,000 US dollars, they are the most outstanding talented players in Cote d'Ivoire, and even most of the players can only be
It would be very good to get three to four thousand US dollars. List asked for thirty thousand US dollars, and Mark Culu even hoped that List would take away all the people in front of him.
"Which player do you want?"
"The one who plays right back is fast, and the one who plays forward is short. What do you think if I take away both of them for $60,000?"
What Rist wants is two people, one is the right back Kolo Toure, and the other is the powerful Bakari Cone. This is not because Rist knows that they can succeed in the future, but because at this time
Among the young players, these two are the best.
In particular, Bakari Cone is very good. He is a little over 1.6 meters tall and performs very well on the front line. He is short but has no shortage of physical strength. He is flexible, explosive and fast. Don't underestimate the height of 1 meter.
With a height of over 60, there is no problem in physical confrontation with players who are 1.8 meters tall.
Kolo Toure is not very conspicuous, but he admires Toure more than Cornelist. Not only because Kolo Toure himself is the world's top defender in the future, but more importantly, his younger brother is also very good.
With a weekly salary of more than 200,000 pounds, Manchester City was once the highest-paid player in Europe.
"Kolo Toure, Bakari Cone. You have such a good vision. No wonder you have so many good players. They are the two best players among our group. They are both the most likely to enter.
A first-team player at Mimosa Club in Abidjan. It’s only $60,000, you can take it away as you like.”
Sixty thousand US dollars is simply a sky-high price for players from Cote d'Ivoire. Even if Kolo Toure and Bakari Kone are geniuses from Cote d'Ivoire, $60,000 is an absurdly high price for them.
"Their ownership is in the hands of your school?"
"Yeah." Mark Kulu nodded, and then said: "You have to know that many of them have been coming to our school since they were twelve or thirteen years old. When they play in the professional league, we will train them five or six years ago.
Years of time. Our investment is not small, so when they enter our school we will sign a contract with their parents. We must control the ownership of the players."
"understand."
Lister does understand very well. Many of the people who play football at this football school are poor. Their families can’t afford to go to this school to practice. And the players’ families don’t have any money to contribute either.
Of course, Mark Kulu can't do a losing business. They are very strict in selecting players. They select the most talented players from a large number of young players. In order to change their own destiny, several players apply for this football school every year.
Thousands of people. And only a few dozen people are left every year. This ratio guarantees that those who can stay in this school are all Côte d'Ivoire's football geniuses. Then when they are seventeen, eighteen, eighteen or nineteen years old
, some clubs from Cote d’Ivoire came to select players.
And List also likes this model. Because List does not need to deal with some local clubs in Côte d'Ivoire and can directly obtain the ownership of the players from this school. Even buying the ownership of the players in Côte d'Ivoire is much simpler than in Brazil.
