The young footballers from the KPC Academy took a detour to the Eiffel Tower on Thursday April 11 before taking the plane back to Guinea. Highlight of a stay in France, lasting around ten days for Thierry Guillou, director of the structure, and his U15s. “For this tour, we had three objectives. Nurture the players with playing experience, nourish them with life experience, because it is a different culture here, and promote our young footballers to foreign clubs”details the Morbihannais, at the head of the Academy since its creation, a little less than three years ago.
Trainer at FC Lorient then at Stade Malherbe Caen for almost ten years, Thierry Guillou (39 years old), author of a book on training in 2018, gave in to the African sirens by joining the ambitious project of Kerfalla Person Camara, a Guinean businessman better known in his native country as KPC. Owner of Hafia FC, a sixteen-time national champion club, the latter wanted to add an academy, for the training of young footballers. “I had been monitoring for ten years what was happening in Africa in terms of training, explains Thierry Guillou. If an interesting project presented itself, it was something that could tempt me. »
Jean-Marc Guillou, a Source of inspiration
A love for African football which has its origins in the reporting ofCorrespondent titled “The children of Jean-Marc Guillou”, broadcast in 1999. The documentary retraced the story of Yaya Touré, Kolo Touré, Aruna Dindane and other Ivorians, from the first vintage of the JMG Academy. A revelation for Thierry Guillou, who has no family ties with his Angevin namesake.
The Lorient resident also took advantage of his €4,000 study grant in 2008 to fly for a month to Bamako (Mali) to observe…
