Olympique Lyon and Rova Sports Academy are set to host a six-day scouting session in Nairobi in January next year.The Academy confirmed that interested players will have the chance to be part of the Rova-Olympique Lyon elite football program if they are selected during the scouting session.The program is open to all and will be targeting players, both boys and girls, born between 2008 and 2011 and will be held at a venue set to be announced later”In partnership with the Olympique Lyonnais our academy will be hosting a scouting session from 5th to 11th January 2022. The interested parties will get a chance to undergo scouting training from Olympique Lyonnais professionals and ultimately get a chance to join Rova – OL elite football program in Nairobi if successful. We are scouting the age groups of 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 both girls and boys,” Rova wrote.This is how we start our morning. Come train with us! pic.twitter.com/LQPFBr0ou4— Rova Sports Academy (@RovaAcademy) December 7, 2021 The Kenyan sports academy and the Ligue 1 champions Olympique Lyonnais signed a partnership deal that would see the two entities work closely to develop talents in the country for a period of three years until 2024.The confirmation of the partnership followed an earlier visit by a delegation of experts from the Olympique Lyonnais led by the Academy Director Jean-François Vulliez in September this year that carried out a sports diagnosis of the structure and jointly defined the axes of collaboration.Rova SA is a private multisport academy that was launched in 2019 and was developed with the aim of developing wholistic Kenyan sportspersons and is based on the American model of education, offering an excellent “sport-study” project to support the best young talents from 10 to 17 years old to the top professional level.Olympique Lyonnais formalizes technical cooperation with Rova Sports Academy Watch the video https://t.co/WhFlQXpGcuOr visit https://t.co/PvkoLuS2gK #MIGUNAMIGUNA— Rova Sports Academy (@RovaAcademy) November 24, 2021 Kenya is the third country in Africa where the seven-time French Ligue 1 winners are setting up a strategic partnership, having successfully done so in Senegal and Morocco, the club becoming the first among the Top 20 European clubs to formalize elite technical cooperation with a local actor in Kenya.
