Only the best for Everton’s scholars

Scholars at Everton’s Academy are guaranteed nothing but the very best as a result of the club’s new state-of-the-art training complex at Finch Farm in Halewood, close to Liverpool airport.

The Academy has established new and improved structures for coaching, recruitment, medical and sports science support, underlining the club’s commitment to recognising and developing youth.

Former Everton striker Graeme Sharp (pictured) says that the new complex will ensure a greater number of home-grown players will come through the academy ranks having benefited from the very latest technology that will be on offer.

“You have to breed your own players and when you bring the parents and the kids here it will be a big selling point,” he told Everton TV. “I am sure that in the years to come we will see many more young players coming through and playing in the first team.”

Under Mike Dickinson, Everton’s Head of Education and Welfare, the club operates an extensive and highly successful youth academy with Wayne Rooney (pictured), Francis Jeffers and David Unsworth amongst those who’ve graduated through the system in recent years.

“What we help the scholars do is to maintain their qualifications and give them an option for the future,” he points out.

Everton’s motto is ‘Nil Satis Nisi Optimum’ which means: ‘Nothing but the best is good enough’. The motto is at the heart of all aspects of the football club and central to their academy programme.

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