Ex-Liverpool star to open football and education academy

Ex-Liverpool star Robbie Fowler to open football and education academy

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Former Liverpool and England striker Robbie Fowler is to open a college to provide students with "a great academic and football education".

The Fowler Education and Football Academy (Fefa) will take further education students aged from 16 to 19.

They will be coached to Premier League standards and also get qualifications in entrepreneurship, coaching, personal training and lifeguarding.

The academy, catering for 60 students, will open on Merseyside later in 2015.

Fowler said the football and sports science course would be "fantastic".

The 39-year-old, who also played for Leeds United and Manchester City in the Premier League, said the idea was to "inspire students to achieve their best".

From schoolboy to superstar:

• Having joined Liverpool as a schoolboy, Fowler went on to become the club's fifth highest scorer of all time, netting 183 goals in 369 games across two spells with the Reds
• He hit the headlines when he scored five goals against Fulham in the League Cup in 1993, an achievement made even more impressive by the fact it came only 13 days after his Liverpool debut
• He also scored the quickest hat-trick in Premier League history, taking only four-and-a-half minutes against Arsenal in 1994
• Fowler played 26 times for England, scoring seven goals

A Fefa spokesman said the academy would be visited by "guest speakers such as top Premier League coaches, sport psychologists, strength and conditioning coaches as well as ex-Liverpool and Everton players".

The academy's principal Brian McGorry, who was an apprentice with Liverpool before having a playing career in the lower leagues, said the course would "dramatically improve our students' academic and football knowledge".

He added: "They will be taught by outstanding teachers and coached by Uefa A-licence coaches and ex-professional footballers."

He said that it would give students a "route into employment and higher education".


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-30881984

 

Where do I sign...?

 

Van Beavis has signed up, he's particularly interested in learning about the benefits of playing 4-4-2 in the Premier League.

 

Would have loved to do something like that when I was leaving school / at college

 

I wonder if Robbie's academy will produce as much talent as our academy?

 

Robbie still has a lot of pull at the club, hope he finds and recommends a few of the decent local kids that the club overlook these days.

 

What a legend.

Trying to bridge that gap when a lot of our youngsters fall by the wayside at mid late teens.

 

We should be using Carragher and Gerrard once he retires, they are fresh in peoples minds and probably have more pull than Robbie.

 

Yeah, I see your point but Robbie is still a big name to the kids in the area, plus he's got more time on his hands than the other two these days.

 

Robbie would be a massive in this country never mind locally, I was thinking further a field

 

Robbie could have done a "class of 92" and bought an amateur club as a toy but hopefully his academy helps a few kids into the professional game.

 

Think Gerrard might be busy collecting his pay cheque in LA to be fair...

 

Hence me putting "Gerrard once he retires"

 

I chose to ignore that part, it didn't suit my response

 

Apology accepted

 

Rob jones had something like this

 

You should be a journalist.

 

No bigger name pull than Rob Jones #truelivinglegend

 

I don't know but this doesn't seem like a big deal to me. He's bloody rich so a bit of giving back is great and all that but still don't see why it's a big story

 

Its a big story locally, he made a lot of money at City and Leeds but he ain't opening an academy in those places.

Its just a story mito like the millionaires of 92 buying Salford City or Sly Stallone trying to educate the Everton faithful last night at half time.