Clairefontaine

Arguably the finest Football academy in the world, Clairefontaine is the French's answer to the English FA Youth Academy, Lilleshaw.

It has a high reputation of producing some of the worlds most gifted players, including the likes of Zinedine Zidane, David Trezeguet and Thierry Henry. Most of the players that attend here are often being tracked by established french clubs already and go on to have very succesful careers. Described by Sven Goran Erickson, as if England had the equivalent to this they would have already won a major championship, it contines to develop some of France's most promising talents, in Jimmy Briand, Mourad Meghni and Sebastien Grax.