{"id":376202,"date":"2025-12-28T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376202\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:32:07","slug":"truro-city-fc-and-truro-and-penwith-college-form-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376202\/","title":{"rendered":"Truro City FC and Truro and Penwith College form academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A further education college has teamed up with a football club to help young sports people to play at the highest level possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Truro City Football Club is set to develop a player pathway academy for 16 to 18-year-old students at Truro and Penwith College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A college spokesperson said the partnership would enable football students to access a professional football environment while continuing their studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This would include opportunities to play in a stadium setting and taking part in the FA Youth Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The spokesperson said while the long-term ambition was to see a professional Truro City player emerge from the academy, it would focus on the career development of all students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Luke Payne, head of sport, health and education at Truro and Penwith College, added: &#8220;This partnership is all about opportunity for our football students, but also for those who want to work in professional sport beyond playing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Opportunities open to the students include media and communications, sports science, therapy, and rehabilitation and event management, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Truro City&#8217;s director of football, Alex Black, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s about creating the first clear pathway into full-time professional football for young people in Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;The college has excellent facilities and people, and together we can give students opportunities that simply haven&#8217;t existed here before.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A further education college has teamed up with a football club to help young sports people to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-376202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}