Ger­man foot­ball club Borus­sia Dort­mund will of­fi­cial­ly launch the BVB In­ter­na­tion­al Acad­e­my – Caribbean on Sat­ur­day, Ju­ly 26.

The ini­tia­tive is be­ing led by Ath­letes and Fans Sports Vil­lage and its founders Col­in Rocke, Mar­tin Lash­ley and Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer An­dre Lawrence. Da­mon Leon will serve as Head of Mar­ket­ing and Com­mer­cial for the project.

The acad­e­my will adopt Borus­sia Dort­mund’s train­ing method­ol­o­gy, which is known glob­al­ly for pro­duc­ing foot­ballers such as Mar­co Reus, Jude Belling­ham, Mario Götze, Jadon San­cho, Yous­so­ufa Moukoko and Er­ling Haa­land. The pro­gramme fo­cus­es on tech­ni­cal de­vel­op­ment, men­tal prepa­ra­tion, and tac­ti­cal aware­ness.