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EBBE SAND
Ebbe Sand Soccer Academy Shanghai was founded in 2012 by Ebbe Sand, who is an ex professional Danish football player who was the top scorer in the German Bundesliga for the team Schalke 04 and participated in 2 world cups with the Danish National Team. His passion and interest to promote football translated into the creation of this academy in Shanghai.
During the past 9 years, we have had the privilege to share our knowledge and passion for football with thousands of children throughout many generations. We provide football trainings to children between 5 and 17 years old and specific skills training for girls, shooting, dribbling and goalies. In addition, we also support the school teams in soccer tournaments.
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The formula to our constant growth and success has always been our strong team. Our definition of strong team is a group of hard working and talented coaches that share the same personal and social values towards the achievement of the same collective mission:
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Guide players in their personal and professional development towards achieving their goals as part of a sports loving community.
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story
Borussia Mönchengladbach is one of the best-known, best-supported and most successful professional teams, winning many German and European Championships.
In 2018, Borussia Mönchengladbach started its operations in China, opening an office in Shanghai and conducting several short and long term football development projects focused on football training programs for children and coach education.
After 2 years, they identified Ebbe Sand Soccer Academy as the right partner to start operations in Shanghai. This cooperation happened so naturally as we share the same philosophy and values to develop football in China.
BORUSSIA IN CHINA
PARTNERSHIP
In 2020, Ebbe Sand Soccer Academy began a partnership with Borussia Mönchengladbach, one of the best professional soccer teams in the German Bundesliga and a recurrent participant in the Champions League. The objective of this alliance is to strengthen the training and competition quality for the players development.
We want to applaud and recognize the passion, commitment, talent and support that we have received from the coaches, the players, the families and the schools that have been part of this successful football story in Shanghai during the past 8 years. This new school term, we invite your children and families to join us in this new phase as the Borussia Academy Shanghai.
code of values
We pursue a holistic educational concept in the promotion of our talents. In addition to a purely sporting development, we therefore, offer our players also a social and interpersonal education. On the one hand, this social education focuses on the values of a person such as decency, tolerance and respect, because these values build the cornerstones of the actions of our players. On the other hand, we focus on virtu- es such as courage, honesty and punctuality. After all, such traits can positively influence the actions of our players.
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At Borussia Academy Shanghai, want to set an example and there- fore, emphasize the importance of these values and virtues to our players. Furthermore, we try to impart these values in the best possible way and give our players these values to take with them. To a decisive extent the objective of the ho- listic education of our players depends on, how our coaches, but also all parents understand these values and if they act and live according to it.
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Because true to the motto „older people are role models for younger people“, our coaches live this code of values by example, for both the parents and our players and strive, in a positive and collaborative cooperation with the parents, for a conscious communication of our values and virtues. The following rules are arranged alphabetically and contain information on the general behavior, the behavior in the dressing room and on the training ground as well as the behavior during the training sessions.
PHILOSOPHY
Working with young players has played a key role in the history of Borussia Mönchengladbach. The legendary Gladbach team of the 1960s and 70s caused a sensation with their exciting attacking football and made the club and the city famous across the globe. Even in the years since the end of Borussia’s golden age, the club has continued to bring young and emerging talents into the first team. For example:
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Lothar Matthäus
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Stefan Effenberg
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Marc-André ter Stegen
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Marco Reus
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Thorgan Hazard
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Andreas Christensen
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Marcell Jansen
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Mahmoud Dahoud
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Today, Borussia considers it important that the club sticks to this philosophy and continues to develop players using our own academy. The promotion of youngsters into the first team is an important part of Borussia’s philosophy, as it always will be. At Borussia, young players receive a footballing education which is divided into three stages:
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Foundation level: U9 to U13
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Development level: U14 to U16
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Performance level: U17 to U23
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The final stage of a player’s development is the U23 squad. However, player promotion in the Borussia academy is unrelated to age and is instead focused on the development of the player.
This means that our youngsters are appropriately challenged and therefore progress as best they can. Through our academy we aim to help the individual players as well as the team as a whole. Our focus on education and developing talent is clearly reflected by the success of the first team.
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However, in order to have the best possible footballing education, it is also important that our young players are able to compete at the top level. The youth teams must remain in the highest league possible and player promotions are made with this aim in mind.
methodology
In the Borussia Academy Shanghai, we place a great emphasis to a didactically well-founded structure of our youth development and therefore try to plan and ensure a sustainable promotion of our players. For this purpose, we adapt ourselves to the general didactics, the general pedagogy, the psychology of learning and development, as well as the didactics of sports in the planning of our training sessions. Thus, our training sessions are always structured based on the following four questions:
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WHY shall be taught?
WHAT shall be taught?
HOW shall it be taught?
WITH WHAT shall be taught?
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This sport didactical approach enables us not only to align the training process in a clear structure, to clearly formulate a controllable performance expectancy and to guarantee a technical correctness, but in addition make an impression on the attention of our players, create a positive training atmo- sphere and ensure a bottom-up learning process.
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Interest
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By arousing enthusiasm for the task (the learning objective), we motivate our players, ignite their intrinsic drive and thus promote the learning process.
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Acquire
The appropriation of new techniques or movements always takes place in three stages. Our players learn the tasks first in the rough form, then in the fine form and finally stabilize them.
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Apply
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Our players must be able to execute and apply what they have learned under difficult conditions. On the one hand, these advanced conditions occur within games, competitions and game forms as situations of pressure arise automatically due to limited time, space and pressure of the opponent. On the other hand, we create this pressure by adjusting the framework conditions with regulations and thereby increasing e.g. the situational, temporal or psychological pressure for our players. In this context, our training is always based on the following syllabus:
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Training under simplified (facilitated) conditions
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Training under regular conditions
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Training under changed conditions
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Training under advanced conditions
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Training under competitive conditions
