{"id":207068,"date":"2026-04-23T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:48:11","slug":"picked-by-brazil-praised-by-klopp-red-bull-new-yorks-stunning-new-training-facility-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207068\/","title":{"rendered":"Picked by Brazil, praised by Klopp, Red Bull New York\u2019s stunning new training facility opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

MORRISTOWN, N.J. \u2014 If only for one cloudy and chilly spring morning in New Jersey, the past, present and future of Red Bull New York aligned beautifully.<\/p>\n

A number of luminaries from the club\u2019s past were on hand for the ribbon cutting and grand opening of RWJBarnabas Health Red Bulls Performance Center. Global star Thierry Henry and his former strike partner at the club, Bradley Wright-Phillips, had the honors of cutting the ribbon. Fellow MLS great Dax McCarty was among those in the group, which included U.S. national team legend Tab Ramos, the original MetroStar before the inaugural 1996 MLS season.<\/p>\n

J\u00fcrgen Klopp, the former Liverpool coach and current Head of Global Soccer at Red Bull, was on hand, as was MLS commissioner Don Garber. This place may well have been the moon if you described this future to the team\u2019s inaugural roster back in 1996, huddled in a small locker room at a local D-III college in the area they called home for years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t have a dream, you wouldn\u2019t build this,\u201d Klopp said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have something you want to achieve, you wouldn\u2019t build this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 80-acre, custom-designed facility reportedly cost north of $100 million and includes eight full training pitches, along with space for the first team, second team and academy all under one roof. The facility features a dining hall serving food from professional chefs, an innovation lab, a 4,635-square-foot weight room with windows to the training pitch, a lounge for first-team players, academic spaces for academy players and much more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not just a training ground,\u201d Red Bull New York head of sport Julian de Guzman said. \u201cThis is the most innovative training facility in all of North America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jurgen<\/p>\n

\n Ex-Liverpool manager and current Red Bull head of global soccer J\u00fcrgen Klopp speaks at the opening of the new RBNY training facility (Dustin Satloff \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The facility will serve as Brazil\u2019s training home for the World Cup this summer. Klopp even joked walking through this facility to the pitch made him miss coaching.<\/p>\n

While the Red Bulls paid respect to a number of the club\u2019s biggest stars from the past, the clear focus Wednesday was placed on the team\u2019s future, something that was echoed in Klopp\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can see how impressive this building is, how big the statement is,\u201d Klopp said. \u201cThis is not about the role soccer played in the past in this country, it\u2019s about the role soccer will play in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

More specifically to RBNY, this facility will be where future generations of academy graduates will develop, as well as stars in the first team aiming to win trophies.<\/p>\n

The Red Bulls have a proud history of youth development, including Tyler Adams, John Tolkin, Matt Miazga and many more to come through the academy and eventually earn transfers to Europe and national team caps.<\/p>\n

This season boasts the club\u2019s best crop of young, teenage talent since Adams, with forward Julian Hall (18), midfielder Adri Mehmeti (17) and fullback Matty dos Santos (17) key starters. All started once again Wednesday night in a wild 4-4 draw with D.C. United, with Hall scoring his sixth goal of the season. They all feature under head coach Michael Bradley, who is a rising young manager in his own right and a former player whose decorated career started with a professional debut as a teenager at this club in 2005.<\/p>\n

\"Inside<\/p>\n

\n Inside the players\u2019 dressing room at the new RBNY training facility (Courtesy of Red Bull New York)<\/p>\n

The pathway from the academy to the first team has never been clearer than it is today and, now, the facilities have never been better. Seeing results does not automatically happen, of course.<\/p>\n

From the second floor of the facility, a number of current academy players listened on as Garber, de Guzman and Klopp each took turns speaking. Klopp took time amid all the praise and excitement to be sure to challenge future generations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the most beautiful houses you don\u2019t raise the most ambitious kids,\u201d Klopp cautioned. \u201cBut we want you to be ambitious, be full of greed in a good way, to be competitive. To all the kids who will train here in the future, be sure to use it. This is a place of no excuses. Everything is here. We will make sure of it. \u2026 In the end, you decide.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of Klopp\u2019s remarks, he glanced warmly back up to those academy kids listening to his every word, a few of whom may become the kind of future stars the club is hoping to cultivate.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you start training,\u201d Klopp said with his trademark big smile before everyone headed inside. Those players had to get ready for training, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORRISTOWN, N.J. \u2014 If only for one cloudy and chilly spring morning in New Jersey, the past, present…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6583,9,11,10,4505,400,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-207068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-mls","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-new-york-red-bulls","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}