The young footballers from KPC Academy took a detour to the Eiffel Tower on Thursday 11 April before taking the plane back to Guinea. The highlight of a stay in France, lasting around ten days for Thierry Guillou, director of the structure, and his U15s. “For this trip we had three goals. Nurturing the players with playing experience, nurturing them with life experience, because it is a different culture here, and promoting our young footballers to foreign clubs.”describes Morbihannais, at the head of the academy since its creation, a little less than three years ago.
Coach at FC Lorient and then at Stade Malherbe Caen for almost ten years, Thierry Guillou (39 years old), author of a book on training in 2018, succumbed to the African sirens by joining the ambitious project of Kerfalla Person Camara, a Guinean businessman better known in his homeland as KPC. Owner of Hafia FC, a sixteen-time national champion club, the latter wanted to add an academy for the training of young footballers. “I had been monitoring for ten years what was happening in Africa in terms of training, explains Thierry Guillou. If an interesting project came up, it was something that could tempt me. »
Jean-Marc Guillou, a source of inspiration
A love for African football that originates in the reporting ofCorrespondent the title “The children of Jean-Marc Guillou”, broadcast in 1999. The documentary recounted the story of Yaya Touré, Kolo Touré, Aruna Dindane and other Ivorians, from the first year of the JMG Academy. A revelation for Thierry Guillou, who has no family ties to his Angevin namesake.
The Lorient resident also used his €4,000 student grant in 2008 to fly for a month to Bamako (Mali) to observe…
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