The whole project will cost more than 10 million Euros

The greatest Romanian football player of all times inaugurated yesterday, within a press conference, Gheorghe Hagi Football Academy, the greatest private project of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe.

This is a complex plan. The academy will have three training levels, dependent on the children's age. There will be three groups of 25 children each, for 7 to 9 year old, all from Constanţa, three groups of 25 members each, for 10 to 12 year old children and three groups of 22 players each, for 13 to 18 year old. By the end of the summer, there will be only three teams left for each age category, while the others will have the chance to go on training within the academy, against a tax. By the end of this summer, there will also be completed the senior group, Viitorul [Future] Constanţa, which will play in the 3rd League starting from the next season. The place these children will practice in will be ready as soon as possible and will extend on a 7 hectare surface, in an area between Constanţa and Ovidiu.

Here there will be nine football fields, and one of these will be for Viitorul team. This particular field will have night lights and stands for 1,100 people. The academy will have 3 building wings for specific purposes: football academy for juniors, gym hall and football academy for children. The deadline for project completion is year 2011. For the senior team, Hagi bought some players all over the country, most of them under age 21. Until academy buildings are ready, the future football players will practice on 4 rented fields. Besides, Gică Hagi acquired a new and modern bus, identical to that of Bayern Munchen team, to transport children to matches, and two mini-buses which will insure transportation to the training fields. Gheorghe Hagi stated that this project was a t