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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Borussia Dortmund to launch Caribbean Football Academy in Trinidad

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Ryan Bachoo
19 days ago
20250626
German football club Borussia Dortmund

German football club Borussia Dortmund

Ryan Ba­chooLead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

ryan.ba­choo@cnc3.co.tt

Ger­man foot­ball club Borus­sia Dort­mund will of­fi­cial­ly launch the BVB In­ter­na­tion­al Acad­e­my – Caribbean on Sat­ur­day, Ju­ly 26.

The ini­tia­tive is be­ing led by Ath­letes and Fans Sports Vil­lage and its founders Col­in Rocke, Mar­tin Lash­ley and Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer An­dre Lawrence. Da­mon Leon will serve as Head of Mar­ket­ing and Com­mer­cial for the project.

The acad­e­my will adopt Borus­sia Dort­mund’s train­ing method­ol­o­gy, which is known glob­al­ly for pro­duc­ing foot­ballers such as Mar­co Reus, Jude Belling­ham, Mario Götze, Jadon San­cho, Yous­so­ufa Moukoko and Er­ling Haa­land. The pro­gramme fo­cus­es on tech­ni­cal de­vel­op­ment, men­tal prepa­ra­tion, and tac­ti­cal aware­ness.

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer An­dre Lawrence said the Caribbean pos­sess­es strong ath­let­ic po­ten­tial, and the re­gion now has ac­cess to a proven youth de­vel­op­ment sys­tem. He said the acad­e­my will pro­vide a struc­tured path­way for stu­dent-ath­letes seek­ing pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball ca­reers.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Borus­sia Dort­mund are sched­uled to ar­rive in Trinidad on Fri­day, Ju­ly 25, 2025, ahead of the acad­e­my's launch.

As part of the launch, a one-day Un­der-17 In­vi­ta­tion­al Tour­na­ment will take place on Sun­day, Ju­ly 27, 2025, at the CIC Grounds in Port of Spain. Six in­vit­ed teams will com­pete in the in­au­gur­al BVB/Gatorade Un­der-17 Chal­lenger Cup.

The BVB In­ter­na­tion­al Acad­e­my – Caribbean aims to bridge Eu­ro­pean foot­ball stan­dards with Caribbean tal­ent by of­fer­ing elite-lev­el coach­ing and play­er de­vel­op­ment. The pro­gramme will in­te­grate Borus­sia Dort­mund’s train­ing sys­tems in­to the re­gion’s youth foot­ball struc­ture.

Or­gan­is­ers said the acad­e­my will fo­cus not on­ly on ath­let­ic per­for­mance but al­so on ed­u­ca­tion and char­ac­ter build­ing, al­low­ing young ath­letes to pre­pare for both pro­fes­sion­al sports and aca­d­e­m­ic ad­vance­ment.

The launch marks Borus­sia Dort­mund’s first of­fi­cial youth acad­e­my pres­ence in the Caribbean.


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