Liverpool Director of Football Damien Comolli is to explore the possibility of striking up a partnership with Uruguayan side Nacional. He told Liverpoolfc.tv:
“We now have strong links with them because both Luis Suarez and Sebastian Coates have come from this club and been developed by their academy.We are talking about a partnership with them that we would like to create over the next three, four or five years, to see if there is more talent coming through. Maybe we can help them to develop their standards and in turn have the ability to bring those young players here. During the Copa America they had 14 players out of the 23 who had at some point played at Nacional or were developed by Nacional. That is a fantastic record for their academy. So it is very interesting for us. We already have a strong link with South America through Lucas, Maxi and Luis. Since it’s been such a success with Luis – and I’m sure it will be for Sebastian – why don’t we try to make it an even bigger success by bringing in other players from Nacional?”
Nacional have won their national championship 43 times
This week it is former LFC WAG Gisela Molinero!!
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If they had so many of their former academy players playing this summer then maybe we have something to learn from them!