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Lille Olympique Sporting Club, commonly called LOSC, also referred to as LOSC Lille, Lille OSC or simply Lille, is a French professional football club based in Lille in Hauts-de-France. The club competes in Ligue 1, the top flight of French football.
Lille OSC Youth Development System
Created on January 27, 1945, the LOSC Training Center has been based at Domaine de Luchin since 2007. Each season, it welcomes around sixty young people aged 15 to 20 who make up the teams of the U17 Nationals, U19 Nationals. and National 3.
At Domaine de Luchin, the training center occupies a preponderant place: at the heart of a system regulated like a Swiss clock, the best technical infrastructures serve the programs of recognized trainers and a high-level personalized supervision, while offering them a course. adapted school. And today, in terms of training, what the Domaine de Luchin offers wins the prize for the best prospects.
Moreover, since its creation, many players have initialed a professional contract and evolved with the Mastiff pennant team, which demonstrates the quality of the know-how and the Loscist experience in the field of training in order to bring its young shoots towards excellence.
Since 1990, more than 90 players trained at LOSC have signed their first professional contract in favor of their training club.
Among them, we find Eden Hazard who is currently among the best players in the world of football. The Belgian international who plays for Real Madrid today has great memories of his training club. The best according to Eden Hazard himself?
“It’s hard for me to choose: from my first steps at LOSC at 14 to my last game where I scored a hat-trick, through the fantastic Cup-Championship double in 2011 or my first goal, many images come to mind. Communion with the supporters, during the parade in Lille or my lap of honor, also represent magnificent moments. We do this job to experience these kinds of emotions. I have such good memories at LOSC… they will be forever etched in my memory. “
Apart from Eden Hazard, among all the players trained at LOSC, we can cite Yohan Cabaye, Mathieu Debuchy, Lucas Digne, Divock Origi, Franck Ribéry, Bruno Cheyrou, Adil Rami, Aurélien Chedjou, Benjamin Pavard, Kevin Mirallas, Matthieu Delpierre, Idrissa Gueye , Pape Souaré, Stéphane Dumont, Bernard Lama, Rudi Garcia, Nabil Bentaleb, Antoine Sibierski, Christophe Landrin, Benoît Cheyrou, Geoffrey Dernis.
Lille OSC Academy Training
1. High-level personalized supervision
Physical, technical and psychological evaluations are frequently carried out. Depending on the results, players benefit from personalized programs. To meet the objectives of individualization of training, LOSC provides 1 coach for 6 to 10 players as well as specific coaches per line. At the same time, the Director of Training meets regularly with the coach of the professional team in order to better follow the development of each player.
2. Learning football in three phases
Phase 1
– Development of strengths
– Development of aerobic capacities, coordination and flexibility work
– Learning of different tactical situations
Phase 2
– Accentuation of the speed of performance of all gestures and specialization at the post
– Development of physical qualities (speed, strength)
– Mastery of the different game systems
Phase 3
– Preparation for competition and ” integration into the professional group
3. An essential education training
Training professional football players remains the goal of each training center; in the same way, to make these young people who are entrusted to him, educated, responsible and autonomous men, is the priority and fundamental mission for the persons in charge of the Centers of Formation. Throughout his school career, the trainee will benefit from an education identical to that practiced in a traditional high school, in the form of face-to-face teaching, on a basis of 19 hours of weekly lessons over 32 weeks.
4. Sports and medical monitoring
Each player benefits from a personalized follow-up: At the sporting level, this translates into three complete evaluations per season (General technique and specific to the position, Tactical, Physical, Psychological). At the medical level, it is about supporting the player so that he is in perfect physical condition. For this, a permanent medical staff (1 doctor, 3 physiotherapists, 1 podiatrist, 1 osteopath) is made available to him.
Lille OSC Football Courses
Since 2015, the LOSC has opened its football camps dedicated to young footballers (girls and boys, aged 9 to 13 and licensed by the French Football Federation) at the Domaine de Luchin facilities. A great success since they are sold out every time.
Future champions as passionate about football will have the opportunity to participate in a unique sporting and human experience, mixing fun activities, technical workshops, awareness raising time, matches and tournaments … Supervised by professional educators and LOSC graduates, they will benefit , in addition to their improvement in football, exceptional advantages: meeting with professional players, visit to the Domaine de Luchin and the Pierre Mauroy Stadium, complete equipment in the LOSC colors, individualized follow-up … The club will do everything possible to ensure that this week is rich in learning, technically and humanly, as much as it is full of emotions and memories. Ideal for progressing, having fun, and aiming higher, like professional players!
Lille OSC RECRUITMENT/TRIALS
How are the players of the Training Center recruited?
The integration of a player in the squad is done only on recruitment, which implies that there is no registration file to withdraw.
Minimum age: 8 years
Recruitment between 8 and 15 years is done exclusively in the Nord – Pas de Calais region, Picardy and the border area with Belgium.
How is it going ?
The LOSC Recruitment service teams travel throughout the season to identify the best elements in the different championships in each age category.
Detections are made up only of players who have been supervised by LOSC Recruitment teams during the season. This implies that there is no detection day open to all.
How to send my CV and my Cover Letter?
Via the CONTACT section of the site. All CVs received are reviewed and linked to the club’s needs and research. In case of interest on the part of the LOSC for a profile, a response will be sent within 1 month.
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Lille OSC History
Olympique Lillois and SC Fives merged to become the city of Lille, which was established as a result of this merger. Both of these clubs were charter members of the French Division 1 when it was first formed, and Lillois won the championship in that first season. Under the Lille crest, the team has taken home six Coupe de France championships in addition to its three League Championships (1946, 1954, and 2011). The decade that lasted from 1946 to 1956 and saw the most success for Lille was one in which the squad was managed by both George Berry and André Cheuva.
The local club RC Lens, with whom Lille competes in the derby known as the “Derby du Nord,” and Lille and RC Lens have been rivals for a very long time.
Stadium
The Stade Pierre-Mauroy is a multi-use retractable roof stadium in Villeneuve-d’Ascq (Métropole Européenne de Lille), France, that opened in August 2012.
LOSC Lille plays their home games in this stadium, which can accommodate up to 50,186 spectators. The stadium’s original name, Grand Stade Lille Métropole, was changed on June 21, 2013, just a few days after Pierre Mauroy, a former mayor of Lille and former Prime Minister of France, passed away.
Crest
From 1944 until 1981, and then again beginning in the 1980s and continuing up until the present day, you can divide the history of the famed French football club’s visual identity into two distinct periods. The club has transitioned from using the French tricolor to using solely red and white for its logo over the course of these historical periods, but the color palette has remained more or less the same throughout. During these times, the club has used two entirely separate symbols.
Ownership
Merlyn Partners SCSp, an investment fund with its headquarters in Luxembourg, has controlled the club since December 2020, when it changed hands. Elliott Management, one of the club’s biggest creditors, put enough pressure on its former owner, Gérard Lopez, to force him to sell the club.
