The Marcet Foundation is a youth education and football organization.

History

The Marcet Football University was founded in 1978 by José Ignacio Marcet as a football youth training organization in Europe, which has established schools in various parts of the world. Programs allow students to train and pursue their primary, secondary, or post-secondary school at the same time. This includes training in leadership and professionalism.

Program

By 2018, over a million players had trained with Marcet alongside more than three thousand coaches. The academy had programs present in 30 different countries, and it has hosted young players from countries in other regions, including eighteen students from North Korea, more than a dozen students from Ukraine during the Russian invasion, South Korea, China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, India, and Honduras. The children of high-profile parents, such as

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, have also attended their schools. The school's most populous program is in Barcelona, and schools have been set up as far away as Canada or India. Alumni of the academy have included

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. Marcet has partnered with football clubs in order to arrange junior competitions, including

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References

1978 establishments in Spain Youth organisations based in Spain Football in Barcelona Secondary schools in Spain