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Wanyama has revealed why he will run his Busia-based academy using the European style.
Former Harambee Stars captain Victor Wanyama has revealed why his soon-to-be-opened Busia-based football academy will be run in a European-style manner.
Wanyama, together with brother McDonald Mariga opted to start an academy in 2021, and it has been in the process of construction, but it is expected that it will be officially launched in the not-too-distant future.
Both brothers featured for some of the best teams in world football, with Mariga playing for Inter Milan, while Wanyama notably played for, Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur, two clubs renowned for their state-of-the-art academy facilities.
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“There are a lot of things I have picked from abroad, things like how young players are coached, the way the surface they train on are top class,” Wanyama said in an open football forum recorded on Spum Buzz.
Wanyama has revealed the things his academy will not incorporate, such as artificial turfs which he says tends to put players’ careers at risk.
“Those are the things I will try and change. Over there, they believe that the turf can injure players, so they are trying to avoid using artificial turfs which can damage a player’s career.
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“Those turfs ruin ankles and knees and in the end, your career dies while still young, so those are the things we are avoiding.
"I want to try and ensure that the surface is of required standard, the way Europeans take diets seriously and things like facilities that are being used there.”
Aside from just developing football, Wanyama’s academy will also act as a learning facility for trainees to learn and will become a registered high school.
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“Even with the school program. Even if football can change lives, where you see people from the slums leaving those areas to make a living abroad, they take education seriously.
“You find there is schooling inside the academy where kids learn. They use computers to learn, then go for training, then rest, then school again, then football, so you find they have kids aged 12-16.
“Everyday is repetition. They train. Left, right, passing and keep repeating. By the time he is 18, you cannot tell me that player will be incompetent. That player could achieve big things for the national team.
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“That is what we do not do in Kenya and it brings us back down. This is what we want to do, get players to be drilled in a way of doing things repeatedly.
“Those are the things we want to replicate and will do soon once the academy is opened and as well, we will bring coaches from abroad to come and train local based coaches.”
The 32-year-old has also revealed plans to bring in nutritionists, academy directors, and coaches from abroad to come and enable local-based coaches to learn from them.
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“We will bring nutritionists, and academy directors to come and help people to learn in order to help the community and country and soon, it will help us become a force to be reckoned with in Africa and also in the World.”
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