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...France's new approach to training and development began in the mid-1970s, when the French Football Federation (FFF), established the Institut National du Football, or INF, which assembled the nation's top recruits aged 16 and over for specialized training from élite coaches. The FFF also required all the country's professional clubs to establish and finance development centers where older prospects could combine studies with high-level footballing instruction and practice. Clubs in England, Italy, and Germany also train apprentice players, but they must find their future stars on their own. In effect, the INF provided French...
...that was just Phase I. By the late 1980s, the youth systems of many pro clubs had got so good that the INF's role as a talent incubator had become somewhat obsolete. So it launched programs to catch 'em even younger: 14 to 15-year-olds began receiving technique and ball-control instruction, awaiting the more physical training of the pro centers. "The result was that, before long, youngsters began entering pro training programs with technical skills no one had seen so early before," recalls FFF official Philippe Tournon...
...shore company, the bank eventually apologized, explaining politely that the money had been hidden to protect precious Russian assets from foreign claims and insisting that no laws had been broken. But Russian Duma Deputies charge that the central bank hid the reserves to lure more cash from the INF. The INF has so far uncovered no evidence of illegal diversion of its loans, but is now looking hard at how Russia has managed the entire $21 billion it has been lent since...
...longer are we confronted by a Brezhnevian Soviet Union waiting to pounce. Through the Intermediate Nuclear Force agreement (INF) and Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), the United States and the Soviet Union have begun to pursue the most logical path out of the Cold War--disarmament...
Gorbachev has also radically altered and accelerated the course of arms control. In all three treaties that have been concluded since he came to power -- Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) in 1987, Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) in 1990, and START this week -- he abandoned long-held Soviet claims and accepted many of the premises of the American negotiating position. The U.S.-Soviet dialogue has been rewritten accordingly...