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Football Camp Manhattan – FFF Academy
- Manhattan - New York, USA
- from 595 €
Five days of “made in France” football on the iconic Randall’s Island, a stone’s throw from Central Park: the FFF Academy Manhattan welcomes boys and girls aged 6 to 17 for an intensive camp in the heart of New York.
The programme, designed by Jean-Claude Lafargue, former Technical Director of France’s Institut National du Football, offers 5 hours of daily training on Randall’s Island synthetic pitches – one of the city’s largest sports complexes. Technical sessions in the morning, matches in the afternoon. Every participant receives a full Nike FFF Academy kit (shirt, shorts, socks) and a diploma ceremony closes the camp.
The camp runs during the day, with no accommodation. Lunch must be provided by families (packed lunch). Looking For Soccer assists you with the entire organisation and is available 7 days a week to answer your questions.
Price: €595
2025 dates: coming soon. Contact Looking For Soccer to be notified as soon as registration opens.
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The essentials
- An authentic FFF football camp with a personalised kit
- 25 hours of training a week
- The official “FFF” methodology courtesy of FFF’s technical director
- Magnificent artificial pitches on Randall’s Island
Location
Manhattan is New York’s most famous and reputable borough. Central Park, located right in the centre, is Manhattan’s heart and lung. People go to picnic, play sport or just for a stroll. All of New York’s biggest sights and monuments are also in Manhattan, such as the Empire State Building and Times Square. New York’s most famous borough is one of the most cosmopolitan places on Earth, with modern neighbourhoods and effervescence 24 hours a day (after all, New York is the city that never sleeps).
Go to the north of Manhattan and behind the Harlem River, you will spot the FFF Academy New York’s football pitches. Cross the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge and you are on Randall Island. The island is entirely dedicated to sport, particularly football with many artificial turf pitches. The FFF Academy New York pitches can be found in the south of Randall Island, with a fantastic view of New York and Mill Rock.
If Manhattan doesn’t suit you, you may be interested to know that there are FFF camps in two other New York locations:
- FFF Academy football camp – Brooklyn
- FFF Academy football camp – Hamptons
The sporting Facilities
Your kids will spend a week on Randall’s Island for an authentic FFF football camp. The island, located on the East River, is one big sport complex. There are 60 pitches on the island, which make up half of Manhattan’s total football, softball, American football, lacrosse, field hockey and rugby. There are some natural grass pitches as well as artificial pitches, which means that people can play and train regardless of the weather. The pitches are also floodlit, allowing for evening training sessions.
The FFF Academy trains on the pitches located in the south of the island (pitch 84). The FFF camps take place on 11-a-side artificial pitches, which of course also mean that you can play 7-a-side too.
Catering and food
Kids need to bring lunch with them for FFF Academy camps. There will be a one hour lunch break every day so that the campers can eat.
There will be bottles of water available, but it would be better for each camper to bring their own water bottles, which we can of course fill up onsite.
Safety and security
There will only be FFF Academy staff and campers on the pitches and the staff will take care of your children from the moment you drop them off to the moment you pick them up. The campers will therefore be under the supervision of professionals with experience in taking care of kids.
The camp program
Training
France is widely regarded as being the best country for developing young players and is also the country that produces the most professional players every year. The FFF Academy wants to expand and export this expertise so that young players from all over the world can benefit from it.
Jean-Claude Lafargue, who used to be the director of the Institut National du Football en France (the National Institute of Football in France), is now the FFF Academy technical director. He has designed and implemented training programs from the FFF Academy for these camps, based on how the French national team youngsters train at Clairefontaine.
This means the campers will be following the same training program as young professionals training at the INF Clairefontaine. The aim of the camps is to increase each player’s potential and take them from playing at an amateur level to a professional level and prepare them for university.
A training day is 6 hours on the pitch, with a 30-45 minute lunch break and a few breaks. So there are 5 effective hours of football per day.
For the Summer camps. The program is simply shifted as the days start earlier to avoid the heat.
- First training session from 9am to 11am
- Second, calmer training session, based on technical workshops, from 12 noon to 3 p.m. before departure.
It is not just football however: human values are also given a lot of importance at FFF Academy camps. Shared by the coaches, values and morals will be at the heart of every training session and each camper must respect them: enjoyment, respect, tolerance, solidarity and commitment. It is very important for the kids to develop and progress on the pitch, but it is just as important for them to be good people off the pitch. Everyone will need to buy in to and respect the FFF values.
Coaches and coaching method
The FFF academy camps methodology was developed by Mr Lafargue, ex-director of the Institut National du Football en France. All the FFF Academy coaches are highly qualified and have been trained by the FFF Academy technical director. The five day training program is based on technical training drills and exercises that are then applied in matches and games. This allows the coaches to make sure that each child is assimilating and understanding the exercises properly, and that all the objectives, aims and goals of the camp are being met.
This methodology is used at Clairefontaine, which has produced some of the world’s best ever football players, like Mbappe, Henry or Matuidi.
Typical day
Summer courses schedule :
Practical information
- 5 days of FFF camp
- More than 20 hours of training
- Focused training sessions in the mornings and matches in the afternoons
- 1 Nike FFF Academy kit given to each camper (shirt, shorts, socks…)
- End of camp graduation ceremony
- Transport non-included
- Lunch
- Personal insurance
- Extra Nike FFF Academy kit
- Bus transfer from Manhattan
Arrival
- For summer camps, arrival is at 9am.
The kids must be in their training kit, with their football boots and shin pads on. The Nike FFF Academy kit will be given to each camper when they arrive on the first day.
We equally recommend making sure your child has a cap and sun cream as it will be very sunny.
Departure
- For summer camps, departure is at 3pm from the grounds.
Parents must arrive on time to avoid disrupting the organization.
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