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Sports / Fitness / Recreation / Football | | English term or phrase: A graduate of Liverpool's academy (en este contexto) | A graduate of Liverpool's academy, Gerrard was highly-rated as a youngster and became a first-team regular as a teenager during the 1999/2000 campaign, having made his debut the season before. Despite initially finding it tough to adapt to the rigours of the Premier League, Liverpool stuck with their youthful midfielder, with Gerrard appearing 50 times in all competitions.
A qué se refiere? Qué es la academia del Liverpool? |
| | | graduado de las (divisiones) inferiores de Liverpool | Explanation:
Así lo diríamos en el Río de la Plata.
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Perdón, debí decir "del Liverpool", no "de Liverpool" |
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  Laureana Pavon
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21 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +2 | a graduate of liverpool's academy (en este contexto) un graduado de la academia del Liverpool
Explanation:
El término academia se utiliza frecuentemente haciendo referencia a academias deportivas, como es el caso de la escuela deportiva del Liverpool.
El Liverpool football club se conoce popularmente como el Liverpool.
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| Reference: Youth Academy Liverpool F.C.
Reference information:
The Academy
In 1998, a new state-of-the-art Youth Academy was opened in Kirkby, north Liverpool. It replaced the older, more informal youth system, and enables the club to focus their youth development and scouting, employing new techniques and FA standards.
It is overseen by Frank McParland. The Academy now allows the main training ground at Melwood to be kept solely for the first team squad and allows all the areas there to be kept in excellent condition. It also provides is a stepping stone for youngsters to progress to the highest levels of football at Liverpool.
Scouts attend many local youth matches looking for talented boys. A boy will then be invited to attend training sessions at the Academy. They are taken in as young as the age of eight. Former England International player Jamie Carragher started at Liverpool when he was aged just nine, with Michael Owen joining at eleven,and Steven Gerrard joining at the age of eight. At this age, the boys start by simply attending after-school training sessions, but as they reach their middle-teens, their academic needs will be taken over by the Academy if they are deemed athletically-talented enough. As such, the Academy has a lecture theatre and a computer-equipped classroom.
The Academy can handle up to twenty boys in each year group, though more usually the figure is around eighteen. Between the ages of eight and twelve the boys play in eight-a-side games of three twenty-minute periods. It allows the boys to play as defenders or as attackers in small groups within a system and is not as physically-demanding as playing eleven-a-side matches.
There are four full-size grass pitches and one with a Polytan surface. There are also a further seven smaller pitches and an indoor arena. The grounds cover an area of 56 acres.
On the walls of the indoor centre hang the words 'Technique', 'Attitude', 'Balance' and 'Speed'. 'TABS' is the key word preached at The Academy.[1]
Reference: http://www.liverweb.org.uk/youth.htm
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C._Reserves_and_Aca...
| Wendy Petzall
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