CultureMay 15, 20261 min read
Inside the academy
How a university side assembles a squad from lecture halls and five-a-side pitches in a single summer.
Assembling a squad from a student body is its own kind of scouting. Trials ran through exam season, on floodlit pitches after the last lecture of the day.
From the halls to the pitch
What emerged is a group that studies together and now plays together. The academy is the club, and the club is the school.
