the academy
overview
The Academy offers high-quality academic courses, professional football training, good nutrition, healthcare and support for soft skills. On a typical day, our student-athletes spend their day at the academy from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm. After academic lessons at El Massira primary school, they receive lunch, theory lessons, life skills and leadership lessons, as well as professional football training. In the 2019-20 school year, we have 26 boys and 16 girls, ages 8-10, in grades 3 and 4.
LEAD Morocco’s student-athletes are taught by Moroccan teachers and led by professionally accredited Moroccan football coaches. The academy follows the Ministry of National Education’s curriculum and builds on the existing LEAD network to add courses on leadership, entrepreneurship, STEM, health sciences and music.
The academy’s mission is to empower Morocco’s future leaders through quality education and sport. It is therefore essential to ensure that our student-athletes have access to new opportunities – both during their time at LEAD Morocco and when they move onto university and professional employment. As a LEAD academy, we will be able to offer our graduates access to preparatory schools for American universities, global professional football clubs, the African Leadership Academy in South Africa, conferences across the world, and, of course, the best universities and employers in Morocco.
