Palmeiras launch new youth centre with multi-million investment | OneFootball

By Lucas Passoli

Palmeiras is interested in building a new training center for its youth divisions. The club has officially started the bidding process to choose in which city in the metropolitan region of São Paulo the training center will be built. Some city halls have already been approached and have shown interest in participating in the project.

Million-dollar investment

The club’s idea is to create a spacious, modern, and strategically located facility, capable of offering the “Crias da Academia” an even more robust structure than the current one. The project includes new accommodations, especially aimed at young players recruited from outside Greater São Paulo.

The estimated investment is over R$ 100 million, with the stated goal of building the most modern youth training center in Latin America.

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Although the search for a new location is taking place amid a dispute involving the current land, club officials emphasize that the decision is not directly related to this impasse. According to people connected to Palmeiras, this is a planned move to meet a need for structural evolution. There are also difficulties in carrying out major works in the current area in Guarulhos, which reinforced the search for a new address.

The project aims to keep up with the club’s current moment, as it has established itself as the main talent development center in South America in recent years. Names such as Gabriel Jesus, Endrick, Estevão, Vitor Reis, and Luis Guilherme, among others, have come from there, strengthening the reputation of Palmeiras’ Academy on the global stage.

Palmeiras expects to conclude the process of choosing the city soon and, subsequently, move on to the stages of executive project planning and the start of construction.

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