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Barcelona will open youth school in Japan
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Editor at Tuesday, 7 July 2009
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On Tuesday at midday in Tokyo, FC Barcelona presented its first football school in Japan, which will open in September in the city of Fukuoka to 200 boys and girls aged 6 to 12 years.
Miquel Puig, manager of the FCB Escola, made it clear that FC Barcelona's objectives overseas are to "expand the Barça brand worldwide, help the football in each country to get better and spot any talents that could emerge anywhere in the world".
Fukuoka will be the club's twelfth international school and the second in Asia, following the one opened in Hong Kong last September. Summer camps have been held with Japanese children in the past, such as one last August that was attended by about 400 youngsters in three different cities. Puig explained how these activities are all part of the process of setting up a permanent school as part of Barça's "expansion into Japan".
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