Protec Sport partnership with Stevenage Borough FC

Protec forges partnership with Stevenage Borough FC

This partnership will allow significantly more  players with potential considerably more access to Protec Sports unique football development programs. 
Stevenage Borough FC have completed the finishing touches to the overhaul of their Youth Development Scheme. In an unexpected move, Stevenage have joined with Protec Football Academy to produce future young professional players for Stevenage at Elite level.

The head of Protec, Pete Edwards, will head up Stevenage’s elite squads at all age levels from the summer. He was a former Premier League coach and has coached at Manchester City, Nottingham Forest, Reading and Barnet and has close relationships with Serie A side Juventus. He formed Protec 12 years ago to give talented kids the best possible chance of making it as a professional.

"This completes the circle for us," Phill Wallace, the chairman, said. "The Protec scheme for U18’s is an educational scheme for the very best young players – the Elite - and a good number of these have made it into professional football, including Steve Morison who started at Protec before he joined Northampton Town.

Under the new Diploma scheme we intend to take on youngsters who may one day like a career in football. We will see these students every week and it’s a natural career path to go from there into either our InnovEd scheme or our Protec scheme at the age of 16. We now have schemes for all ability levels.
Protec have a record to be proud of with several players that have made it through to the pro ranks and we’re delighted to now have them in charge of our football youth development at Elite level.