Four players from the CF Montreal Academy are preparing to leave for training with Bologna, the sister club of Bleu-blanc-noir. A strategy which is part of a desire for enhanced “synergy” with Joey Saputo’s other team.
Published yesterday at 12:50 p.m.
Forwards Owen Graham-Roache and Aleksandr Guboglo, midfielder Antoine N’Diaye and defender Sergei Kozlovskiy will train for two weeks in the capital of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. They will be there from December 7 to 20.
They will join Jesse Saputo, one of Joey’s sons who plays as a midfielder. The 17-year-old recently played his first minutes in the UEFA Youth League with Bologna FC’s U18 team.
The U18 head coach at CF Montreal, Maxime Leconte, will also participate in this internship, working with the technical staff of the Italian club’s academy.
According to Marinos Papageorgopoulos, director of the CFM academy, this experience is an “excellent opportunity for [les académiciens] to prove that they can compete in a different high-level environment. They will be able to continue their training there and return to Montreal more experienced. »
Graham-Roache, 16, was recently called up to the Canadian national under-17 team for the first time. Guboglo, a 17-year-old Haitian U17 international, joined the Academy in 2019. N’Diaye and Kozlovskiy (18 and 16 years old, respectively), took their first steps at CS Longueuil before joining the CFM in 2016 and 2022.
If these players obtain this internship, we understand that they are the most interesting prospects in the Montreal ranks. Last year, Alessandro Biello, Emrick Fotsing and Gaël de Montigny had this chance. Biello ended up signing a first professional contract with CF Montreal’s first team last winter, and spent the entire past season with the group.
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