Cardiff City F.C. Academy

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The Cardiff City F.C. Academy is the youth academy currently set up at Cardiff City in order to discover and nurture young talent. The academy has a range of players from ages seven to eighteen.

1 Information
2 Former members
3 Personnel
- 3.1 Academy Coaches and Official Scouts
4 Under 18's squad
5 Under 16's
6 References

[edit] Information

According to the official Cardiff City FC Website, [1] "the Cardiff City football academy, is not simply a scheme, or a group of young players and coaches. It is all of these things; but most importantly, it is a philosophy and a culture. The club has always been dependant upon, and focused around the local community. The great players and teams throughout the clubs' history have always been built on the foundations of local boys and local talent. Cardiff City has a fantastic and proud history of nurturing young talent and are committed to continuous development of youth teams in future years. Cardiff City Football Club is fully committed to their fantastic academy, and recognises the importance of youth development".

Cardiff's scouts currently concentrate on searching South Wales, Hereford, Worcester, Swindon and Oxford. Now looking towards other areas of the United Kingdom including Ireland and Scotland with the recent appointment of scouts in these areas by Neal Ardley^[1]

The Under-18's team regularly merge with several out of favour first team players to form the reserve squad.

[edit] Former members

Scott Allison
Byron Anthony
Kyle Bassett
Darcy Blake
James Collins
Gregg Coombes

Michael Corcoran
Robert Earnshaw
Jamal Easter
Nicky Fish
Stuart Fleetwood
Chris Gunter

Joe Jacobson
Lee Jarman
Tareq Khalil
Joe Ledley
Curtis McDonald
Aaron Ramsey

Christian Roberts
Damon Searle
Scott Young

[edit] Personnel

Academy Manager

Neal Ardley

Assistant Academy Managers

Geraint Twose (12-16 year olds) Mark Neville (7-11 year olds)

Youth Team Coach

Geraint Twose

Head of Recruitment

Head of Education and Welfare

Steve Ellis

Senior Academy Physiotherapist

Neil Lewis

Academy Physiotherapist

Jimmy Goodfellow

Academy Secretary

Anthony Redwood

Head of Local Schoolboy Recruitment

Graham Pulling

Club "Doctor"

Len Nokes

Kit & Equipment Manager

Ian Lanning

Assistant Kit Manager

Alan Cross

Fitness Coach

Alex Armstrong

[edit] Academy Coaches and Official Scouts

Academy Coaches

Gary Wilmot
Philip Llewellyn
Dai Haggett
Emeka Onyekwe
Jim Haggett
Selwyn Burton
Shaun Fackrell
James Young
Harry McLean
Lee Skyrme
Paul Rainer
Adrian Tucker
Kristian Rogers
James McCarthy
Jason Fowler

Official Scouts

Howard Ross
Adam Atteo
Rod Groves
Peter Jones
Brian Cullen
Chris English
Steve Green
John O'Sullivan
Jeff Michael
Bob Sully
Paul McCarthy
Martin Poole
Mike Farley
Vince Leach
Kevin Muirhead

[edit] Under 18's squad

The under-18's team currently plays in Group B of the FA Premier Academy League. Players with squad numbers have appeared or are part of the senior team but regularly return to play for the under-18 team.

No.	Position	Player
23	MF	Darcy Blake
25	GK	Erwin Sak
26	MF	Jonathan Brown
29	DF	Matthew Smith
30	MF	Aaron Ramsey
31	GK	Josh Magennis
--	GK	Josh Herring
--	DF	Anthony Acheampong
--	DF	James Bloom
--	DF	Ashley Buswell
--	DF	Dean Hudson
--	DF	Adam Matthews
--	DF	Bradley Middleton (captain)

No.	Position	Player
--	DF	Aaron Morris
--	MF	Jack Carlisle
--	MF	Zakaria Evans
--	MF	Paul Gallagher
--	MF	Rhys Kelleher
--	MF	James Upcott
--	MF	Sam Wade
--	FW	Rafiq Kaied
--	FW	Craig Mason
--	FW	Shaun Stokes
--	FW	Tyrell Webbe
--	FW	Travis Wheatle

[edit] Under 16's

The under 16 team also play in FA Premier Academy League in the under-16 category. All games in the category are played as friendlies and no league table is included. As there is no u15's team, the u16's is a mix of both u15's and 16's.

Under 16's squad: