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The Marcet Foundation is a youth education and football organization.
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The Marcet Foundation is a youth education and football organization.
The Marcet Football University was founded in 1978 by José Ignacio Marcet [1] as a football youth training organization in Europe, [2] which has established schools in various parts of the world. Programs allow students to train and pursue their primary, secondary, or post-secondary school at the same time. [3] This includes training in leadership and professionalism. [4] [5]
By 2018, over a million players had trained with Marcet alongside more than three thousand coaches. [2] The academy had programs present in 30 different countries, [6] and it has hosted young players from countries in other regions, including eighteen students [7] from North Korea, [8] more than a dozen students [9] from Ukraine during the Russian invasion, [10] South Korea, China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, [7] India, [11] and Honduras. [3] The children of high-profile parents, such as Shakira and Gerard Piqué, have also attended their schools. [12] The school's most populous program is in Barcelona, [13] and schools have been set up as far away as Canada or India. [14] Alumni of the academy have included Han Kwang-song, [15] Oliver Torres, [16] and Konrad de la Fuente. [17] Marcet has partnered with football clubs in order to arrange junior competitions, including Barcelona FC. [18]
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