Aspiring coaches keen to broaden their knowledge can learn how to develop players the Valencia FC way when the Spanish giants launch their Bermuda-based Academy.The season-long Academy begins in September at Saltus and will see the La Liga club send two of their youth coaches to the Island as part of a three-year agreement with the ABC Football School.ABC hope the Academy will spread the Valencia football philosophy among the Island’s coaches, who will have an opportunity to work closely alongside Jose Lopez Bargues, Oscar Suarez and ABC’s own coaching guru, Andrew Bascome.Henrik Schroder, a director of ABC, said the Academy would offer a “world class” football education to as many as 20 local coaches without them having to leave Bermuda.He said ABC were not only dedicated to producing well-rounded young players, but also knowledgeable coaches.“Valencia are sending two of their youth coaches to work with our coaches to help them understand the Valencia coaching model,” he said.“This is a chance to work with the best people and if our coaches stay with this programme for three years then they will get a very good coaching education.“(The Academy) is the only tool we can think off that benefits everyone: players, parents, coaches and Bermuda football at large.”Almost 200 local players, aged between eight and 14, will further their development at the Academy, whose teams will play in the Bermuda Football Association’s youth leagues.It will be the third Academy the club have opened outside Spain, with the others in Egypt and Japan.Schroder believes coaches would have to head to Europe to experience a similar level of education offered by the Valencia Academy. And even then they would only be working with elite coaches for a week rather than eight months.“It’s like getting a world class education or your doorstep,” said Schroder, “otherwise you have to fly to Spain, England or Holland. You can only afford to go to those places for a week or so before flying home.“In a week’s time you can probably retain about five percent of what you have learned. Our coaches will not be learning from seminars or reading materials; they will be getting first-hand experience of the Valencia coaching model.”Although some Bermuda coaches have already expressed an interest in working at the Academy, Schroder said plenty of coaching positions were still available.“We’ve had coaches express a keen interest but we’re looking for more to come forward,” he said. “We would like to hear from domestic clubs also interested in learning more about the Valencia coaching model.“It’s a costly programme but we’re willing to go the extra mile to get this done. To fly someone offer to Arsenal (to work in their Academy) for a year would be very expensive, but at the end of this three-year programme we could have as many as local 60 coaches gaining education through the system.“At the end of this we hope there will be a sort of certification from either Jacques Crevoisier (an ABC technical consultant) or Valencia, so the coaches will feel they have earned something.”Valencia FC will also be holding their second Next Generation Camp on the Island in September from players aged between eight and 16.