It was the best of both worlds as a team of soccer hopefuls from Manchester United’s Academy got together with Slovak ice hockey heroes for an exclusive photo-shoot. The UK teenagers were at AquaCity-Poprad – a spa hotel voted the world’s ‘greenest’ over a number of years – for training […]
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There was an air of sadness as Manchester United Under 16s arrived in Slovakia for training at AquaCity-Poprad. It had just been announced that Eric Harrison who was the team’s legendary youth coach, had died aged 81. A statement issued by United this morning (Thursday) read: “We are extremely saddened […]
England’s manager and his players had the opportunity to achieve football immortality. But sadly it got kicked in to touch for them. The Three Lions were just one game away from the first final since 1966, and it was only tough-guy Croatia that stood between them and France. Yep, they […]
A world class centre in Poprad Slovakia produces players for WORLD CLASS teams. Once little more than a rubbish tip, AquaCity has been transformed into a World Class centre solely due to the vision and Euro multi-million investment of environmental entrepreneur, Dr Jan Telensky. Prior to AquaCity being born, Poprad […]
Wat-er success for Jesse Lingard’s Man U training in the mountains! Harry Kane might have scored the hat-trick as England got their best-ever World Cup win … but staff at the greenest hotel in the world also had a sense of pride as the score was revealed. The 6-1 trouncing […]
In this exclusive interview from Eric Wiltsher, programme boss at RTI.fm, a major international English speaking radio station based in the heart of Europe, talks to Manchester United’s youth academy boss Dave Bushell. Dave has been one of the custodians of a best-kept secret between Man U and the glorious […]
Heroes of British soccer have revealed one of the best-kept secrets of Slovakia … for the last eight years Manchester United has been sending its young hopefuls there to a specialist mountainside training camp. Every October Manchester United’s Youth Team spends time in the city of Poprad training at one of the […]