Academy News

August 3rd, 2009

The Loanee Roundup

By: Jack | Comments 19 Comments

You’re may be wondering: Where have all those talented Chelsea youngstas buggered off to? Well, you’re in luck.
Here’s a roundup of those youths — the two youths? — that have been shipped out on loan before the start of the 2009-10 season. Let me know if I missed anyone, people.

Franco Di Santo
Destination: Blackburn
Loan [...]



April 6th, 2009

Cleaning Boots: Lamps & the English youth quandry

By: Jack | Comments 3 Comments

Our resident professor, Frank Lampard, spoke candidly regarding youth players a little over a week ago. Here’s what he had to say:
“There are good young pros out there but nowadays it’s made much too easy for them.
“We’re all lucky to be where we are, leading nice lifestyles, but that lifestyle is coming earlier and earlier. [...]

February 5th, 2009

FA Youth Cup: Liverpool 1, Chelsea 0

By: Jack | Comments 5 Comments

Chelsea travelled to Merseyside for the second time in a week. And, once again, the Blues left empty-handed.
Chelsea’s Under-18 side crashed out of the FA Youth Cup on Thursday, suffering a 1-0 defeat to Liverpool in a nip-and-tuck affair on a brisk night at Anfield. Liverpool scored the night’s only goal on 16 minutes, David [...]

October 19th, 2008

Video: Under 18s defeated

By: Jack | Comments 4 Comments

The Chelsea youngstas dropped a 4-3 decision to Southampton on Oct. 13. Jocopo Sala, Fank Nouble and Josh McEachran netted for the Blues.

September 29th, 2008

Pre-teen joins Chelsea

By: Jack | Comments 1 Comment

I bet The Voyeur is pissed.
Chelsea scout Guy Hillion confirmed that the club inked 12-year-old Jeremy Boga from ASPTT Marseille.
The Blues beat out Lyon, Bordeaux and big Marseille for the young one’s signature. More to the point, his father has been working in London for a couple of years, leading to Boga’s decision to join [...]



August 23rd, 2008

Mitrovic glistens at Cobham Cup

By: Jack | Comments No Comments

Chelsea’s Under-16 showcase, The Cobham Cup, kicked off today. And Marko Mitrovic stole the show.
In his Chelsea debut, the highly-touted Swede — signed by Chelsea last December — found himself on the scoresheet less than a minute into the Blues’ tournament opener with River Plate. Mitrovic drove home a penalty, which he had won by [...]

August 23rd, 2008

Cobham training facility unveiled

By: Jack | Comments No Comments

Chelsea broke in its newest addition today with the official opening of the new academy at Cobham. Among those on hand for the shindig included Sir Trevor Brooking, John Terry, Uncle Phil and Romes himself — nice, dude!
The ceremony came prior to the Cobham Cup kickoff, a subject I’ll tackle in my next transcendent blog [...]

February 27th, 2008

FA Youth Cup: Chelsea runs riot

By: Jack | Comments 2 Comments

The Chelsea youngstas booked a place in the FA Youth Cup semifinals Tuesday night.
They dominated Port Vale 5-2 at Vale Park, a sublime hat-trick from Frenchman Gael Kakuta the highlight of the night. Morten Neilsen and Miroslav Stoch added to the tally.
Vale scored boths of its goals in the second half, the first through Jonathan [...]

October 1st, 2007

John Terry: Will He or Won’t He?

By: Andy | Comments No Comments

I feel so jealous that my fellow ‘bloggers’ can post goal action of their favourites from the weekend’s action and ‘appen from the last few weeks LOL LOL LOL!!
Anyway. Will he or won’t he? Thats the question that is being debated and discussed on the varous Chelsea chat boards concerning our own Captain Marvel – [...]

September 18th, 2007

Academy, Reserves and Chelsea Ladies UPDATE

By: Andy | Comments 2 Comments

The Academy travelled to Aston Villa on Saturday morning and like the first team a couple of weeks ago, were beaten. The game ended 2-1 to Villa. Read all about it here.
The reserves were in action last night at their new home Griffin Park, home of Brentford FC and in front of a fair sized [...]






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