Bolton Drifters are really glad to report another authority association with Leeds-based worldwide football institute, RIASA (Richmond Global Scholar and Soccer Foundation).
Established in 2010, RIASA offers both global and UK understudies the opportunity to read up for the world’s just US/UK authorize degree while fostering their game and playing on UK soil.
The association will see Bolton Vagabonds’ FA and UEFA qualified worldwide instructing staff work intimately with the RIASA group, sharing best practice and creating organization open doors for understudies and staff.
Furthermore, understudies will be offered the chance to mess around against Vagabonds’ age-suitable resistance and, during the slow time of year, the opportunity to play one game on the grass at the Toughsheet People group Arena.
Neil Hart, CEO at Bolton Vagabonds said: “Following a year of conversations, we are really glad to send off this new organization with RIASA.
A great and well established instructive foundation program, RIASA carry something exceptional to understudies from everywhere the world, and we are satisfied we can uphold their main goal to offer the absolute best in player experience here on UK soil.
Mark Ellis, Foundation Chief at RIASA said: “I’m excited to collaborate with a notable club like BWFC and energized for the further open doors this will bring for RIASA understudies.
It is my need to continue to add to the nature of the program and make more examples of overcoming adversity like previous understudies Nahki Wells as of now at Bristol City and Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, presently proprietor of Sunderland FC. I honestly think that banding together with Bolton will give us open doors like these.
RIASA will likewise see the send off of its London-based program in September this year, which will offer further chances for understudy and competitors to encounter learning at Richmond American College London as well as playing in the capital city with admittance to the largest number of association clubs in the country.
Applications for RIASA for the scholarly year 2024/25 are open at this point.
For worldwide understudies for the rest of June 2024. For UK understudies, applications close toward the start of August.