FC Porto pushes ahead with expansion, opens football school in Mozambique | OneFootball

FC Porto will inaugurate a football school in Mozambique in February, in partnership with the Black Bulls Association, making it the third Dragon Force on the African continent.

In a statement on its website, the club explains that the Dragon Force Black Bulls Mozambique program “includes regular training, coach development, implementation of FC Porto’s technical and methodological processes,” as well as “talent identification and development initiatives.”

FC Porto recalls that the connection between the two clubs dates back to 2017, the year the Black Bulls Association was created, and that now it is gaining “more solid foundations.”

The president of the dragons, André Villas-Boas, told the club’s channels: “We are executing the International Expansion plan we set out for ourselves, bringing FC Porto’s knowledge, methodology, and values to different regions, through credible partners, sustainable projects, and structures that guarantee real impact on youth development.”

Luís Junaide Lalgy, president of the Black Bulls Association, emphasized that “FC Porto’s know-how will be decisive for us to achieve the objectives we have set, not only in terms of improving Mozambican talent, but also in our ability to export increasingly well-prepared players to other markets.”

Ricardo Frey Ramos, executive manager of Dragon Force, added that “The goal is to consolidate a sustainable training system, promoting the transition of academy students to youth football and consistently raising levels of performance and competitiveness.”

After Zimbabwe and Cape Verde, the club is exporting the Dragon Force model to Mozambique and continues to organize FC Porto World Camps in Africa, with particular emphasis on those held in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa.

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