Youth Academy
Genk is well known for its outstanding youth academy. In 2003 they built their youth center next to their stadium and set up a youth program with Ronny Vangeneugden. There are further plans to build a boarding school and some synthetic pitches. In the past and now, many young players have found their way trough the youth system. Some examples are: Logan Bailly, David Hubert (current captain), Jelle Vossen ( KRC Genk ), Faris Haroun ( Middlesbrough FC ), Steven Defour ( FC Porto ), Sébastien Pocognoli and Sinan Bolat ( Standard Liège ), Marvin Ogunjimi ( RCD Mallorca ), Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea FC) and Kevin De Bruyne ( Chelsea FC )
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Famous quotes containing the words youth and/or academy:
“If youth but knew; if age but could.
Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)