Badu first started the football centre in 2014, giving training sessions to young people in Hackney to develop their skills.

 

Since then we have continued to grow every year and now run sessions for players in nursery all the way up to 16 every Saturday during term time. One principle we wanted to stick by was to give all players the same opportunity and focus regardless of their skill level.

 

Every week, we continue to make sure that we are not a club that only depends and focus on the players with the most talent, giving all our young players an equal opportunity to flourish. One way in which we do this is by giving players from our football centre the chance to train with Badu FC academy teams during the week.

 

This helps with their improvement and gives them an opportunity to experience football at a higher and more competitive level. For players that want to develop and transition to playing in our academy for our teams, the football centre is where that journey starts as it offers the best environment for development.

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For more information please email our community lead at: football@baducic.org

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