Sky Sports Football‬ Documentary Episode 7 | Chasing the Dream video transcript

Narrator: We lose too many, when they've been released.

ProChance Manager: Nine front post anything coming in Devante. Six picking up three yards off the keeper. Two and three on the posts, four, five and eight picking up man for man. One forward thinking University is already offering something in line with Tony's ideas, to work specifically with players released from academies. We went to Derby to find out more.

We have a full team here with the partnership with the University of Derby and ProChance Football in order to help each individual become their best self, that's priority number one. Number two is to try and help them to understand themselves better and to understand why they might be in the situation that they are. Why do they need a vehicle like ProChance?

What do they do when they get into the final third, do they just throw it in the box?

We're trying to help a number of young men every year to be their best self, number one. Number two, we're trying to help them along that journey in terms of our study programme while also helping them to play fulltime, train fulltime, and have a full holistic programme that's akin to that you would find at a First Team level at a professional Club.

Football Trainer: Good.

ProChance Manager: They're behaving very much like a professional footballer. We follow a professional Football Club schedule so we kind of work in between four and eight sessions per week on the training pitch. We have a full team of analysts, we have a full team of medical professionals, we have interns that support those, employed staff, full team sport psychologist, so we've got a rounded support structure for these players to access.

Football Trainer: Well done. Goal kick play out that was play out.

ProChance Football Player: I was playing Sunday League so the standard isn't, so I've gone straight into high intensity. Luckily I've developed my game a lot, especially with being at ProChance.

ProChance Manager: In terms of the academic side the real kicker is that then at the end of the two years it's a foundation degree, they can top up into a subject.

Football Trainer: Five, six, seven, eight, jump, jump.

ProChance Football Player: Football is to some people the and end all but it's also just a period of time in your life.  You know that when you retire you need something to fall back on, so education's always been in my mind.

ProChance Manager: For most of them what they want is an opportunity to sort of take away any regrets, so they want to have an opportunity to play fulltime, train fulltime, play against professional clubs at the right level. So for us that's 21’s, 23’s even a first team at a professional club and they want that opportunity to put away any ghosts.

Narrator: The programme at Derby would work across the board.

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