CONFIRMED: Liverpool Academy of SA closed down
The Liverpool Academy of South Africa has been closed down due to financial problems.
The academy started in Durban in 2014 and in recent months had also branched out to Cape Town and Johannesburg.
It charged R700 per kid per month and R2000 per kid for a three-day coaching camp.
The South African Football Football Coaches Association had disapproved of the academy from the very start.
Listen to the Director of Coaching to SAFCA, Sudesh Singh speaking out against the academy right here.
In recent months the academy has been in dire financial straits. It has not been able to buy kit for their league teams and to pay permanent staff and the coaches since March 2016.
The Director of the Liverpool Academy, Lyndon Barends explains the decision to close it down below: