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...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 clubs with a pool of young, precociously gifted players to recruit from. As a result, the youth programs of French teams like Nantes, Cannes, Saint-Etienne, Montpellier and Auxerre became factories of exceptional young talent...
...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...
...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...
...company's own marketers work to identify the brand with the tastes and cultural preferences of the target population. In France, that has meant deploying "ugly American" caricatures in its ads and substituting Asterix for Ronald McDonald. The general idea is to make the famously malcontented French youth (in their Levis and Nikes) feel comfortable stopping in for a Big Mac on their way home from an anti-American demonstration...
...Alzheimer's last year came from studying a group of nuns who agreed six years ago to give their brains to science. A long-term study of 678 School Sisters of Notre Dame showed--surprisingly--that something as simple and non-medical as a handwritten missive, penned in youth, may be able to predict a person's chances of getting Alzheimer's later in life. That link is still quite controversial; less so are some of the study's other findings, such as the protection the brain apparently gets from higher education pursued in young adulthood or from engaging...