Academia Cristiano Ronaldo

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Academia Cristiano Ronaldo
Academia Cristiano Ronaldo
Location Alcochete, Portugal
Coordinates 38°43′49″N8°51′0″W / 38.73028°N 8.85000°W / 38.73028; -8.85000
Owner Sporting Clube de Portugal
TypeSports facility
Opened2002
Website
sporting.pt

The Academia Cristiano Ronaldo (English: Cristiano Ronaldo Academy), [1] [2] [3] formerly known as Academia Sporting (English: Sporting Academy) [4] [5] and also known as Academia de Alcochete (English: Alcochete Academy), [6] is the name given to the football training facilities of Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP, or Sporting Lisbon), located outside Alcochete, in Setúbal District, Portugal. It includes the Sporting CP Youth Academy which helped to develop footballers such as Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo from a young age. [7] Both Sporting CP B, the reserve men's football team of Sporting CP's main squad, and the main Sporting CP women's football team, [8] [9] play their home matches at the Estádio Aurélio Pereira (named after long-serving Sporting CP's head youth player scout Aurélio Pereira) in the Academia Cristiano Ronaldo, which holds a seating capacity of 1,200. [10] [11]

History

The Sporting Academy, inaugurated in 2002 and since 2020 officially known as Cristiano Ronaldo Academy, was built on the opposite bank of the Tagus River from Lisbon as a brand new infrastructure of Sporting CP's football training facilities, including those belonging to its youth development system. [1] [12]

The academy was one of the training grounds for the Portugal national football team during the UEFA Euro 2004. [13] The academy (by then known as the Academia de Alcochete) was renamed Sporting/Puma Academy (Academia Sporting/Puma) to reflect the sponsorship and naming contract signed by the club and the sports brand Puma in 2006; the contract lasted until 2012. [14]

Sporting Academy was the first sports academy in Europe to receive the ISO9001:2008. [15] – a quality certification awarded by EIC, a Portuguese anonymous society responsible for this type of quality management system certification. [16] [17]

In June 2010, Sporting CP signed the first contract for consultancy in sports training at the international level, with Al-Ahli Saudi Soccer Academy, from Saudi Arabia, a partnership that lasted for three years. [18]

On 15 May 2018, after Sporting finished third in the Portuguese league, several players and coaches were attacked by around 50 fanatic supporters of Sporting's ultras at the academy. [19] [20] [21] Those ultras would be later banned for life from the club and prosecuted by the legal authorities. [22]

On 21 September 2020, the academy was renamed Academia Cristiano Ronaldo, after Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the most decorated football players to emerge from Sporting CP's youth development system. [23] [24]

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