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...apprenticeship program was launched under the direction of Gérard Houllier - a former French national coach who currently manages a resuscitated and rejuvenated Liverpool club. The program is built on seven regional training centers, where young players scouted and recruited from small youth clubs and FFF-organized tournaments follow normal educational programs supplemented with daily training in football technique. The best players from regional centers are periodically called to the INF camp near Paris for higher-level instruction with national team coaches. On the weekends, the players return to their local clubs for their league games. "This system doesn...
...London club into a veritable colony of expat French stars. Within two years, he had walked off with both the English Premiership title and the Football Association Cup. His bid to another F.A. cup was thwarted last year by Liverpool, under the coaching of another Frenchman, Gérard Houllier. An architect of the French national training system, Houllier revamped and restructured a rusty Liverpool organization to win a rash of national and international titles last year. This year, the English Premier League got its third French manager: Jean Tigana, of the London club Fulham...
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