MAROUF ADEYEMI e.V.
A pitch, a coach, and somebody who turns up every week.
Football is where a lot of young people are already giving everything they have. Pro League Academy is our attempt to make sure that effort leads somewhere, whether or not it ends in professional sport.
Most of them will not turn professional. That is not the point.
A serious training environment produces discipline, a timetable, a group that expects you, and adults who take you seriously. Those things transfer to school, to an apprenticeship and to work. The small number who do go further are a consequence of the programme, not its purpose.
Two halves of the same thing.
On the pitch
- Regular structured training
- Boots, kit and equipment for those who need them
- Competitive matches and tournaments
Off the pitch
- Homework support and school liaison
- Guidance towards apprenticeships and training places
- Introductions to clubs and scouts where a player is ready
Honest status.
The club
A club of our own, so that players have somewhere to play competitively rather than only to train. Registration has been submitted and is awaiting approval; until it is granted, we describe it as pending and nothing more.
A place to train
We are working on a training ground in Schönefeld. A site has been identified; a written use agreement is still open, and we will say so until it is signed.
Both countries
The academy is built to work in Brandenburg and in Benin, with the same standards in both places rather than a full programme here and a gesture there.
The rules we work by.
We take no cut, ever
No share of any contract, transfer, prize or income a player earns, now or later. We are not an agency and we will not become one.
School first
Where training and education collide, education wins. A player who is failing school is not developed, whatever their ability with a ball.
No promises about a career
Nobody is told they will make it. Selling that hope to a family is how young players and their parents get exploited in this sport.
This one needs things, not only money.
Equipment you no longer use, a few hours of teaching, a room in the evenings, or an introduction to someone who books, casts or scouts. All of it counts, and some of it counts more than a transfer.