Center technique national Fernand-Sastre

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The Center technique national Fernand-Sastre (CTNFS) is the performance center of the French Football Federation (FFF). After the place Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines about 50 km southwest of Paris , where the facility is located, it is often referred to as Clairefontaine for short .

Clairefontaine was opened on January 4th, 1988 and inaugurated on June 11th, 1988 by the then President François Mitterrand . This was preceded by the initiative of FFF President Fernand Sastre to set up a national performance center since 1972 . The location was determined in 1982, and Fernand Sastre laid the symbolic foundation stone in 1984. The construction work, which lasted from 1985 to 1987, included extensive clearing work, the renovation of a castle as a future residential building for the French national football team and the construction of the Institut national de formation (INF) training center as well as residential and commercial buildings. Until the early 21st century, teams of the players trained there took part in regular competitions under the name INF Clairefontaine ; the A-youth team won the Coupe Gambardella in 1988 , and the women played as CNFE Clairefontaine for several years in the French premier league .

During the 1998 World Cup in France, the French national team lived in Clairefontaine. Five days after the World Cup victory, on July 17, 1998, the performance center was named after Fernand Sastre, who died during the World Cup on June 13, 1998. On February 22, 2002, a bust of the namesake was inaugurated on the Clairefontaine site.

Clairefontaine is the central training camp for the French national football teams and the regional training center for the Île-de-France region for young people aged 13-15. The most prominent former students include Thierry Henry , William Gallas, and Nicolas Anelka . Since 1998, the CTNFS has also had a training and performance center for women's football . There are around 60 full-time jobs in Clairefontaine. The area is 56 hectares, 6.6 hectares of which are football fields, seven natural grass and two artificial turf pitches. Clairefontaine is a role model for other European associations such as the DFB , which are also considering setting up a national training and performance center.

In mid-2014, INSEP (Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance) , which until then had done the practical part in Clairefontaine and the school part in Rambouillet , was merged and followed up for the three-year training course for young female soccer players between the ages of 15 and 18 Vincennes outsourced.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fédération Française de Football (ed.): 100 dates, histoires, objets du football français. Tana, o.O. 2011, ISBN 978-2-84567-701-2 , pp. 144f.
  2. ^ Badische Zeitung January 29, 2009
  3. ↑ France Football of October 21, 2014, p. 39

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