Introducing Ivoire Académie - A unique plateforme for sport professionnels

A unique platform for players, trainers,
clubs and all shareholders willing to
develop a sustainable and professional
sport industry in West Africa
January 2015
Introducing Ivoire Académie

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AGENDA
1. Introducing the academy
– Ivoire Académie businesses
– Our organization
– An international and experienced team
– Results
– Video
2. Appendices
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RECRUITING, PLAYERS DEVELOPMENT, INFRASTRUCTURES MANAGEMENT & SPORT MARKETING
Our main occupation is to scout and to develop football players as well as to market services related
to sport entertainment
Scouting
Post-training
support
Infrastructures
Management
Sport Events Sport MarketingTraining
Reveal accomplished Men and football players
• The only club dedicated to players development
combining an african and european expertise
• Ivoire Académie accompanied the players toward their
professional career by: 1) helping scouts to identify
talented players 2) following the performances and
supporting the hosting club to enhance the player
adaptation 3) working together with the player to find a
tailored professional orientation
• Ivoire Académie hosts clubs and national team willing to
prepare a game or a competition (training camps)
• Ivoire Events organize corporate events, training camps
during school breaks and tournaments
• Ivoire Consulting provides sport marketing advices
Football players development Sport Entertainment
• The aim of the academy is to trained players capable to play in the 5 biggest european leagues
• Ivoire Académie is a unique hub for players, trainers, scouts, clubs and all shareholders willing to develop a sustainable sport
industry in West Africa
Plateforme de divertissement sportif
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FACILITIES AND ORGANIZATION
The training center is located at 20 km from Abidjan: 30 hectares dedicated to sports and leisure
with 7 football fields, a boarding school (with a capacity of 100 beds) and a school
Overview of our facilities
Academy plan
How does the academy work ?
1. Inspired by european academies
• The players join the boarding school for the whole
week and receive trainings as well as classes
• 7 teachers ensure the monitoring of the Ivorian
education program
• A minimum of 1 game is organized every week
• The tuitions are free for all the players
2. Scouting: « gather the best players». Our scouting team
identify the best players based on their abilities to
become international football players
3. General principles
• Intelligence, technical skills, speed, tactical thinking
and competitor attitude
• Access to a professional competition via Ivoire
Académie FC, a football club in the national 2nd
division
• Some of our values: work, respect, integrity, fair
play, passion for football
4. Individualization of the player professional
development, by working with small promotions
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A TEAM OF SPORT PROFESSIONALS
Our managing team combines more than 70 years of work experiences in youth player development
as well as in companies management in Europe and in Africa
Executive Management
General
Management
Etienne RIZK
- Legal Advisor
- Lawyer, specialized in sport and
business laws
Sport
Directors
Ivoire Académie’s team
Team
Education
• More than 20 persons are currently
working for the academy with a pluri
disciplinal background
Previous
Experiences
• Scouting and players development
• Setting up scouting teams
• Companies, clubs and academies
management
• Sport marketing (sponsorship, stadiums
projects, events organization…)
• Sport Law: players transfert, working
contract and sponsorship
International
Background
• Professional experiences in Europe and
Africa: mainly in France, Belgium, Côte
d’Ivoire, Mali …)
• More than 70 years of experience in Côte
d’Ivoire
Raheem ALIBHAI
- Managing Director
- Consultant, specialized in sport
companies management
Aziz ALIBHAI
- President and Founder
- Entrepreneur, Companies
management
Jacques CANOSI
- Sport Director
- 15 years of experience for french
academies and players scouting
(Ligue 1, France)
Charlton TIEMELE
- Sport Director Assistant
- 15 years of experience in youth
player development and scouting
(West Africa)
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RESULTS
Since 2002, many players joined the academy…
• Gervinho
• AS Rome, Italy
• Côte d’Ivoire, A Team
• At the Academy: 2002-2005
• Seydou Doumbia
• CSKA Moscou, Russia
• Coulibaly Kafoumba
• Kasımpaşa Spor Kulübü, Turquie
• Ali Badra
• ASEC Mimosa, Côte d’Ivoire
• At the Academy : 2002-2005 and
2012-2014
• Vamouti Diomandé
• Mjøndalen IF, Norvège
• Côte d’Ivoire, U23 Team
• Kevin Beugré
• Hønefoss, Norvège
• Jean-Eudes Aholou
• LOSC, France
• Habib Maiga
• AS Saint-Etienne, France
Drissa Diarrassouba (International U20, Côte d’Ivoire),
Ahissan Landry Junior (International U20, Côte d’Ivoire),
Zouzoua Pacôme (International U18, Côte d’Ivoire), Diakité
Aboubacar (International U18, Côte d’Ivoire)
Serge Niangbo (Istres, France), Tamla ladji Zito (PO
Levadiakos, Grèce), Diop Oumar (Asec Mimosas, Côte
d’Ivoire), Kambou Hervé (Willy Serato, Pérou), Koudou Alain
(Vertou, France), Gbané Mory (FC Déolois, France)
Experienced players Young Talented players
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VIDEO
Recently, France24 shot a video on the Academy
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AGENDA
1. Présentation de l’Académie
2. Annexes
– Ivoire Académie - CVs
– Sports Facilities
– Contacts
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ASSOCIATION IVOIRE ACADÉMIE - CVS
Aziz Alibhai - President
Professional background Selected professional experiences
• Aziz is the President and the founder of Ivoire
Académie
• He hase more than 15 years of experience in the
sport industry in Côte d’Ivoire and in Belgium
• He is also the founder and the CEO of SIMPO, a
company specialized in civil engineering, mining
and transportation
• He is French - Ivorian but originally from India and
speaks fluently French and English
• He has more than 35 years of work experience in
West Africa
• Aziz’s professional experiences include:
– Acquisition, Management and sale of
football clubs in Belgium and in Côte
d’Ivoire
– Ivorian youth players development: more
than 15 players joined european clubs
such as Gervinho (AS Roma), Badra Ali
(ASEC Mimosa), Serge Niangbo (FC Istres),
Jean Eudes Aholou (LOSC), Habib Maiga
(AS Saint-Etienne)
– Companies Management in West Africa
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Raheem Alibhai - Managing Director
• Raheem is the Managing Director. He is in
charge to manage the academy with the
objective to be a leading academy in West
Africa
• He joined the LOSC’s football academy in
2001, Ivoire Académie in 2003 and than played
more than 5 years in 2nd division in Belgium
(ROCCM and KSK Beveren)
• He has more than 5 years of work experiences
within clubs and in consulting
• He holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School,
Paris
• He is French-Ivorian and speaks fluently
French, English and understand Spanish
• He has spent more than 20 years in Côte
d’Ivoire
• Raheem’s professional experiences include:
– Managing a 2nd division football team.
His responsibilities included recruiting
players for the professionnel team,
setting up marketing strategies and
attracting investors
– Consulting for stadium projects holders:
defining the stadium project and business
planning
– Marketing and strategies consultancies
for clubs and sport federations (market
studies, naming rights, sponsorship…)
– Thesis project: African football
academies strategies
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• Etienne is the legal advisor of Ivoire
Academie. He is in charge of all the legal
purposes
• He is a lawyer specialized in sport and
business law and has more than 5 years of work
experience
• He holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School
and is graduated from Science-Po Paris
• He is French-Lebanese and speaks fluently
french, english and german
Etienne Rizk - Legal advisor
• Etienne’s professional experiences include:
– Sport Law: drafting of national and
international transfer agreements,
players' employment agreements, agency
(remuneration and presentation)
agreements, national and international
club sponsorship agreements, drafting of
the relevant legal documentation related
to the acquisition of sports events,
drafting of consultations
– Business Law: drafting of non-disclosure
agreements, letters of intent, share
purchase agreements, drafting of
company incorporation and capital
increases documentation, drafting of
consultations
– Thesis project: African football
academies strategies
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Jacques Canosi - Sport Director
• Jacques is the sport director of the Academy. He
implements the youth training program and the
scouting strategy. He is especially in charge of
Ivoire Académie Football Club (Ivorian 2nd division
football club)
• He has been a professionnel football player in
France during more than 11 years
• He has more than 15 years of experience as a
coach for academies and professional football team
• He has more than 6 years of experience as a scout
for Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs (France)
• He holds the B.E.E.S and the coach licence
delivered by the UEFA and the French FA.
• He is French and speaks French and German
• Jacques’s professional experiences include:
– Youth players development: From U11 to
U23 and including U16, U17 teams (Racing
Club de Strasbourg, Ligue 1, France)
– and has trained players such as: Gameiro
(Séville FC, Spain), Bifouma (UD Almeria,
Spain), Schneiderlin (Southampton,
England), Dicko (Wolverhampton,
England),Gueye (Millwall FC, England),
Wachter (FC Lorient, France), Peuget
(Reims, France), Krebs (Karlsruhe SC,
Germany), Matmour (Kaiserlautern,
Germany), Faugporet (CSKA Sofia,
Bulgaria), Arache (Chengdu Tiancheng,
China), Bellaid (CS Sfaxien, Tunisia)
– 1st division coach as Laurent Fournier’s
assistant(Racing Club de Strasbourg, Ligue
1, France)
– Recruitment for the Academy and the first
team ( Racing Club de Strasbourg, Havre
Football Club and for the le Red Star)
– He was also involved as a consultant for
the technical commission at a regional level
and for trainings sessions for coaches
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Jacques Canosi - Sport Director Assistant
• Charlton is the sport director assistant of the
Academy. He implements the youth training
program and the scouting strategy. He is especially
in charge of U15 players.
• He integrated the Academie Mimosifcom (Côte
d’Ivoire) in 1994 and signed his first licence with
ASEC in 1999.
• He has 15 years of experience in african players
development in Côte d’Ivoire and in Mali.
• He has more than 3 years of experiences as a 1st
and 2nd division coach (AS Bakarydjan, Mali and
Toumodi FC, Côte d’Ivoire)
• He holds the licence C delivered by the Ivorian
football federation.
• He is Ivorian and speaks english
• He has spent more than 30 years in West Africa
• Charlton’s professional experiences include:
– players development: Salomon Kalou
(Herta Berlin, Germany), Gervinho (AS
Rome, Italy), Coulibaly Kafoumba
(Kasimpasa spor kulubu, Turkey), Tamla
Ladji Zito (APO Levadioakos, Greece),
Koné Yousouf and Traoré Adama (Losc,
France), Traoré Hamari and Diomandé
Souleymane (Lierse, Belgium), Doumbia
Moussa (Rostov, Russia)
– as a senior coach for 1st and 2nd division
clubs in Cote d’Ivoire and Mali
– Scouting in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Ghana
and Nigeria
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SPORTS FACILITIES OVERVIEW
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CONTACTS
08 BP 1746 Abidjan 08
Côte d’Ivoire`
www.ivoireacademie.com
marketing@ivoireacademie.com
Coordonnée GPS:
5.306288, -4.231117
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www.ivoireacademie.com
Coordonnée GPS:
5.306288, -4.231117

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