Olympique Lyon and Rova Sports Academy are set to host a four-day scouting session in Nairobi in March, having pushed the session from January this year due to what they termed unavoidable circumstances.The event was initially set to take place for six days from January 5 to January 11 this year but was postponed to March.The four-day event will have sessions of different age groups conducted on different days except for the first day that will have a double session. Those born in 2008 will take the morning session with those born in 2011 taking the afternoon session.Players born in 2009 will take the morning session on the second day while those born in 2010 will take the third day. The fourth and final day of the selection will see all age groups conduct sessions.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.Due to unavoidable circumstances, were getting in touch to let you know that Rova Sports Academy January Scouting has been postponed until March. Stay safe, and we will be in touch with more information soon.Keep registering here https://t.co/UCfbibIsBW pic.twitter.com/J3f7sSNHIs— Rova Sports Academy (@RovaAcademy) January 3, 2022 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 Radix Hotel along Lang’ata Road.”In partnership with the Olympique Lyonnais – OL our academy will be hosting a scouting session from 9th to 12th March 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.In November last year, 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 2021 that carried out a sports diagnosis of the structure and jointly defined the axes of collaboration.Due to unavoidable circumstances, were getting in touch to let you know that Rova Sports Academy January Scouting has been postponed until March. Stay safe, and we will be in touch with more information soon.Keep registering here https://t.co/UCfbibIsBW pic.twitter.com/J3f7sSNHIs— Rova Sports Academy (@RovaAcademy) January 3, 2022 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.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.
