Nike Academy: The Italian Job
FourFourTwo Performance tagged along with the Nike Academy as they faced their great challenge yet: Inter Milan
As part of FourFourTwo’s exclusive partnership with the Nike Academy, we joined the squad in Italy for their clash with European giants Inter Milan.
A year after winning The Chance – a worldwide competition featuring 75,000 young players battling it out to win a contract with the elite training programme – the team continue to upset football's hierarchy with a string of impressive results.
Impressive displays against Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain have been accompanied by wins over Celtic, Racing Genk and Sunderland.
Against players from one of Europe's most successful clubs, the Nike Academy once again proved that reputation means nothing.
You can find out more about how you can get involved with the Nike Academy, and watch the players’ progress this season, by visiting Facebook and NikeFootball.com.
Also see:
Master your finishing: Heads and tails
Master your finishing: 1 v 1 attacking
Master your finishing: Combination play in and around the penalty area
Master your finishing: Three finishes in one
Master your finishing: Power shooting
Master your finishing: The toe poke
Master your finishing: Shots and blocks
Master your finishing: The reverse pass to cross and finish
Master your finishing: The serve and volley
Master your finishing: The four-way finish
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Huw was on the FourFourTwo staff from 2009 to 2015, ultimately as the magazine's Managing Editor, before becoming a freelancer and moving to Wales. As a writer, editor and tragic statto, he still contributes regularly to FFT in print and online, though as a match-going #WalesAway fan, he left a small chunk of his brain on one of many bus journeys across France in 2016.
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