Academy

Introduction

True to real football, the academy is how new talent enters the game. All the players enter the game aged 18. Players between the ages of 18 and 20 players are members of an academy, bound to their parent club.

To guarantee that you keep an academy product at your club past the age of 21, you will need to sign them as a squad player – by minting him as an NFT.

Failure to do so will mean that the player becomes a free agent, and any other club will be able to sign him at an auction. Once you've signed a player, you have the scope to sell and loan them out to other teams or continue playing them in your squad.

That said, your academy players that are not yet free agents can still play for your first-team squad without the requirement of minting them.

Talent Pipeline

The academy will likely be your key channel for bringing players into your first-team squad.

Your club starts with 10 players in its academy. Every season 10 new players are generated into your academy, ready to be introduced to the professional game.

Within each cohort there will be a varied distribution of quality. This distribution will depend on the club's division and how much work has been put into improving the academy's quality.

Player Signing

While youth players are still in the academy, they don't live on-chain. When a club owner wants to sign a youth player on a contract (to prevent them from becoming a free agent), they mint them as an NFT. This will incur a small minting fee that will go toward funding prize pools.

For an explanation of how prize pools will work, read this Medium article.

Infrastructure Investments

You can invest in your club's facilities such as the stadium and academy to improve their quality. Investing in your academy will increase the average quality of players produced. Investing in your stadium will give you the ability to upgrade its appearance and capacity, and also give your team a larger home advantage during home games.

Coaching and Specialisation

In the future, we will add the functionality for certain retired players to become coaches, giving them training specialisations to enhance your academy players' attributes.

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