High-performance football camps in Catalonia 2024

Overview

• Location: Catalonia, Spain
• Age range: From 12 to 21 years of age
• Levels: Intermediate, advanced, or elite

Academy / Club history

The Catalonia High-Performance Academy works in close collaboration with the historic Nástic Tarragona, the third most important football club in Catalonia and one of the oldest in the country, founded in 1886.

Both entities are largely concerned with providing football training to young players, and recognize the vital importance of academic and personal development for athletes to be able to forge a solid professional career and increase their chances of success in the future.

Their teaching methodology and sports programmes, adapted to Spanish League gameplay, prepare football players for the highest level of competition, tactically, physically, and mentally.

Training

• Skill level: Intermediate, advanced, or elite
• Other soccer education features: Seminars, competitions, recovery sessions, and injury prevention practices
• Students per training group: Up to 15
• Training language: Spanish
• Training intensity: 4/5

The Catalonia camp offers a professional high-performance training programme that is intensive, demanding, and tailored to students' needs.

This innovative programme combines the most successful educational methods of European football taught by a professional coaching staff, with the physical and mental conditioning systems adopted by top-level university athletes in the United States.

Although a certain level of fitness and skill is required, what we value most is a positive attitude, willingness to listen and learn from our coaches, as well as a relentless dedication to improvement.

This is an extremely demanding programme that constantly forces our players to break out of their comfort zones and face new physical and mental challenges in order to surpass themselves. Here you will learn how to train, think, focus, eat, and rest in the way professional football players do.

Our training sessions consist of technical, tactical, and strategic exercises together with fitness, recovery, and injury prevention practices. We also hold in-house tournaments to effectively implement what has been learned.

Training Facilities

• Training surface: Artificial grass
• Additional training facilities: Gym, video-analysis room, and conference room
• Quality: 4/5

Training sessions are carried out daily at the campus' sports facilities. On occasion, some may be held at the beach or at the official facilities of Nástic Tarragona.

The onsite sports facilities have been specially designed for high-performance athlete training. They feature a UEFA-size training pitch, a gym, a medical office, a physiotherapy room, swimming pools (indoor and outdoor), video-analysis rooms, and a running track.

There are also paddle courts, a cafeteria, and different communal areas for students to use during their free time.

In 2021, the academy invested around 2 million euros and underwent a major renovation project to update and improve both the accommodation and the sports facilities.

Language Classes

• Native teachers: Yes
• Hours per week: 7.5 hours per week
• Quality of the classes: 3,5/5

Camp Schedule

The following schedule demonstrates a typical day at camp. The exact camp schedule will most likely vary from day to day.

Accommodation

• Name of the facilities: Camp Joliu Residence
• Location (distance from training facilities): All facilities are onsite
• Types of rooms: Shared rooms (doubles or triples)
• Bathrooms (private or shared): One shared bathroom for every 4/6 students
• Quality: 4/5

The Catalonia High-Performance Academy is located at the Camp Joliu campus, which is one of the most important international schools in the region. It is a quiet and secluded location surrounded by extensive fields. Although it’s situated away from the hustle and bustle, it is still strategically close to Barcelona, just 40 minutes from El Prat Airport and from the city center.

The campus provides an excellent learning environment, specially designed for personal growth and competitive, high-performance athletic development. All camp facilities are onsite. The residence can accommodate up to 100 students in double and triple rooms, which were refurbished in 2021. It also features a UEFA-size football pitch, a school, two swimming pools, paddle courts, a cafeteria, a restaurant, video-analysis rooms, and communal areas, among other facilities.

Prices and Dates

Improved booking conditions for all camps

This 2024 make your reservation more easily and with less risk

• We´ve lowered the deposit required to reserve your camp to just 500€
• Free cancellation until March 1st
• Money-back guarantee within 10 days
• Optional anti-covid insurance

*Please note that if a visa is required to attend camp, it will be necessary to pay the total amount of the program

*Special conditions valid for all 2024 summer camp reservations except for the Barça USA camp, which will follow the general terms and conditions.

Extra Services

You can purchase one of the extra services below at an additional cost.

Camp Insurance

We offer two insurance options based on your needs:

• Cancellation and Interruption Insurance: This option allows you to get your money back if you have to cancel or interrupt the camp for any justified reason, including injury or illness of participants both before and during the camp (the policy contains 35 different causes for justified cancellations).
• Travel/Medical Insurance: With this insurance policy, you will be covered for medical assistance abroad and possible expenses caused by health-related issues, as well as other contingencies such as lost luggage or an unforeseen flight change.

  Download the following PDF to learn more about each insurance options terms and conditions, coverage features, and price.

  Camp Insurance
  

  Transfer Service:

  There are two types of transfer services available that we´ll detail for you below:

• Standard transfer service: the camp offers an optional transfer service for participants who request it from the nearest airport to the residence (or vice versa). Check with Ertheo for schedules and prices for this service.
• Special transfer with additional unaccompanied minor service: participants who fly to camp alone and have contracted the unaccompanied minor service with their airline must hire this special transfer with accompaniment so that the child isn´t left alone in the airport. Check with Ertheo for schedules and prices of this service.

Contact Ertheo for prices and additional information.

Transportation to the camp (flights/trains) is not included in the price of our programs.