FC Porto opens Dragon Force football school in Belo Horizonte | OneFootball

FC Porto announced this Monday the opening of another Dragon Force football school, this time in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It is the club’s 10th training school outside Portugal, the seventh opened within the space of a year, and it is expected to welcome more than 400 children, aged between 3 and 14, as early as next season, contributing to an international total that will exceed 4,500 students.

The headquarters will be based at the Clube dos Oficiais da Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais. The new school’s activities begin on August 13 and will, from the very start, include the presence of FC Porto technical coordinators, ensuring the strict application of the club’s training methodology.

“The project also includes a privileged link to the development pathway of young Brazilian talents, allowing the athletes with the greatest potential to continue their training at Coimbra Sports, FC Porto’s strategic partner in Brazil,” reads the statement released by the Dragons on their website.

“The partnership between Futebol Academy and FC Porto represents a transformative milestone for our football school. By combining our experience in grassroots development and our commitment to excellence with the tradition, methodological rigor and winning culture of a European giant like FC Porto, we significantly raise the level of development of our athletes. This union is not merely a seal of quality; it is a unique opportunity to offer our young players a high-level learning environment, connecting our local passion with the most demanding international standards of talent development,” said Jonathan Tadeu, general director of Futebol Academy, in statements to FC Porto’s media outlets.

The president of the Clube dos Oficiais da Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais, Colonel Fiuza, also expressed satisfaction with Dragon Force’s arrival in Belo Horizonte: “Receiving FC Porto’s football school is a huge honor for our club. We had the opportunity to get to know the full potential of this project in depth, and we are certain it will be a great success for all the children who enjoy playing football and, above all, for those who wish to learn and improve through a methodology recognized internationally.”

Aloizio Gouveia, sporting director of Clube dos Oficiais, added that the partnership is generating great expectations: “The Dragon Force by FC Porto football school brings a distinctive and comprehensive concept in the training of young athletes who want to play football, promoting values such as discipline, honesty, friendship and respect. This partnership strengthens the club’s social role, with excellent training in a prime location in Belo Horizonte.”

“This is another landmark moment in FC Porto’s path of growth and international presence. Our development is based on a clear vision and a sustainable strategy, defined by FC Porto’s management and built on a strong, competent structure agile enough to respond to the challenges of different geographies, without ever losing sight of what defines us: quality in the training process,” stressed Ricardo Frey-Ramos, director of Dragon Force.

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