skip navigation

Whitecaps FC London Youth Academy Centre Run In Partnership With EMSA

By OSA News, 03/01/16, 6:15PM EST

Share

The Whitecaps FC London Youth Academy Centre is part of the official Academy Centre network of Major League Soccer (MLS) club Vancouver Whitecaps FC, and is run in partnership with the Elgin Middlesex Soccer Association (EMSA)

Programs include a Prospects Academy for boys and girls from U-11 to U-18, and a Pre-Prospects Academy from U-7 to U-10. London Youth Whitecaps players are provided with opportunities to be scouted into Whitecaps FC full-time professional development programs in Vancouver. In February 2016, London Youth Whitecaps won the U-18 boys Ontario Indoor Cup.

Whitecaps FC Academy Centres are a network of regional training hubs linked through key staff, curriculum, and standards that provide professional supplemental club training for serious, motivated players. Planning and curriculum are overseen by Bart Choufour, director and head coach of Whitecaps FC Academy Centres. With the addition of the London Youth Academy Centre, Whitecaps FC have a network across 14 different cities, including locations in Kamloops, the Kootenays, Manitoba, Northern BC, the Okanagan, Saskatchewan, Squamish, Vancouver, and Vancouver Island.