School, Santos FC to build academy
By Qiu Quanlin in Guangzhou | China Daily | Updated: 2017-03-01 07:08
A Chinese middle school has teamed up with a top Brazilian soccer club to build a soccer academy to develop young talent and coaches, as part of China's plan to become a soccer superpower.
Sun Yat-sen Experimental Middle School in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, signed a cooperative agreement with Santos FC - who soccer legend Pele played for from 1956 to 1974 - on Monday to build the academy.
The middle school, which is already a training base for Chinese Super League club Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao, will allocate more than 3 million yuan ($437,000) in funding to introduce coaches from the Brazilian club.
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