High Performance Soccer Camp in France 2024

Overview

• Location: Evian, France
• Age and Gender: Boys between 11 and 19 years of age
• Skill level: Intermediate, advanced or elite

Academy / Club History

The academy has its own professional football club, Thonon Evian Grand Genève FC, with players from the U8 category up to the highest division of the FFF’s (French Football Federation) national competition.

Over the past 20 years, the academy has been building strong professional connections with European football.

It works closely with Geneva football clubs and integrates its annual players into their teams so they can compete at the highest level.

Training

• Skill level: Intermediate, advanced or elite
• Additional Football Education: Nutrition, injury prevention, video-analysis, recovery, and strength and conditioning
• Students per Training Group: 10-15
• Coaching Language: English
• Intensity Level: 4/5

The academy's training programme is designed to provide its participants with a fully immersive professional experience at the highest level of European football.

Students work on physical, tactical, technical, mental, and emotional aspects in order to improve their skills as much as possible in a short period of time.

All training sessions are conducted in English, although there are coaches who are fluent in Spanish, Italian, and French.

In addition to on-field training, there are also a number of activities related to the health and wellbeing of elite athletes; addressing topics such as nutrition, injury prevention, video-analysis, recovery, and strength and conditioning, among others.

For those who wish to access the academy's long-term programme, this camp is the perfect opportunity to learn first-hand about the day-to-day life at the academy and to show you have the necessary potential to be shortlisted.

Training Facilities

• Training surface: Natural and artificial grass pitches
• Quality: 4.5/5

The high-performance camp in France takes place at a vast, 2.4-hectare venue that houses several sports facilities, including natural and artificial grass professional pitches (used during training), a gym, a spa with hydrotherapy and massage rooms, video-analysis rooms, and first-class changing rooms.

Camp Schedule

*This schedule is indicative and subject to last minute changes.

Accommodation

• Name of the facilities: Academy´s on-campus residence
• Location: On the same campus as training facilities
• Type of rooms: Double rooms
• Bathrooms: Two large bathrooms with 6 private showers per floor
• Quality: 4/5

The France High Performance Camp has its own on-campus residence to accommodate its summer participants.
All rooms are doubles, have air conditioning, and high speed Wi-Fi connection. A laundry service is offered twice a week, with daily housekeeping service and weekly linen and towel change service.

There are two large bathrooms on each floor of the residence, each having 6 private showers.
As for meals, the camp offers an organic menu perfectly balanced according to the nutritional needs of young athletes. They use local organic ingredients whenever possible to create healthy and balanced dishes that are usually traditional to French gastronomy. The academy has adaptable menus for vegetarians or for individuals with gluten or lactose intolerance. It's also possible to adapt to a Halal menu as long as this need is notified well in advance.

There are also large common areas that participants can use during their free time that include:

• Foosball tables
• Ping pong tables
• Cable television
• Videogames
• Lounges
• Study rooms
• Gardens

Prices and Dates

The official rate of this program is determined in EUROS so the final amount in other currencies may vary slightly due to currency fluctuation.

Starting Dates

Improved booking conditions for all camps

This 2024 make your reservation more easily and with less risk

• We´ve lowered the deposit required to reserve your camp to just 500€
• Free cancellation until March 1st
• Money-back guarantee within 10 days
• Optional insurances

*Please note that if a visa is required to attend camp, it will be necessary to pay the total amount of the program

Extra Services

You can purchase one of the extra services below at an additional cost.

Camp Insurance

We offer two insurance options based on your needs:

• Cancellation and Interruption Insurance: This option allows you to get your money back if you have to cancel or interrupt the camp for any justified reason, including injury or illness of participants both before and during the camp (the policy contains 35 different causes for justified cancellations).
• Travel/Medical Insurance: With this insurance policy, you will be covered for medical assistance abroad and possible expenses caused by health-related issues, as well as other contingencies such as lost luggage or an unforeseen flight change.

  Download the following PDF to learn more about each insurance options terms and conditions, coverage features, and price.

  Camp Insurance
  

  Transfer Service:

  There are two types of transfer services available that we´ll detail for you below:

• Standard transfer service: the camp offers an optional transfer service for participants who request it from the nearest airport to the residence (or vice versa). Check with Ertheo for schedules and prices for this service.
• Special transfer with additional unaccompanied minor service: participants who fly to camp alone and have contracted the unaccompanied minor service with their airline must hire this special transfer with accompaniment so that the child isn´t left alone in the airport. Check with Ertheo for schedules and prices of this service.

Contact Ertheo for prices and additional information.

• Nearest airport / train station: 
• Ginebra Airport GVA

Transportation to the camp (flights/trains) is not included in the price of our programs.