River Plate Football Training in Australia, gives young footballers a magnificent start to their career. We provide all year round skill development programs and elite training camps for talented young players within Australia under the guidelines of River Plate. River Plate's football philosophy is to develop players with a tight ball control who can solve creatively any situations on a football field. Players, who are also great competitors, possess great physical capabilities, mental toughness and tireless ambition to win. Those players who show these attributes will be invited to train and play with our club in Argentina for a number of months. While there, they will train full time and closely observed by specialised coaches.
The right time
After a long social and political struggle to gain acceptance in the Australian culture, football has established itself as the country's fastest growing sport. Traditionally players have been coached by enthusiastic volunteers with limited resources. While this offered a cheap solution for cash strapped clubs, this method lacked of a systematic approach towards developing new talent. During the last few years, a new generation of young players have shown an unseen before level of dedication and commitment. This has resulted in an increasing demand for a more professional approach to coaching and administration. At the helm of this new trend is the success of a number of our local players in the overseas market, the launching of the "A" League and subsequent Australia's world cup participation. This has created an unprecedented demand from parents and players for more consistent and responsible career path for talented players towards professional football. In the past some of our elite players have found career breaking opportunities in European clubs and while South America has produced the finest players in the world and has had successes in world class competitions still remains an untapped destination for our talent. C.A River Plate the largest and more prestigious club in South America has become aware of the Australian football phenomenon and now has opened its doors to Australian players.
History
The RPT was founded in 1995 under the name of DS Football Promotions. D.S.F.P conducted promotional clinics, holiday camps for schools and clubs, private training for young elite players, and professional training sessions for new coaches. In 2006 The Football club affiliated with CA River Plate of Argentina and the RPT adopted the name of River Plate Football of Australia.
Corporate objectives
-To recruit new international members for the C.A. River Plate
-To develop quality class young players in Australia, who are able to be employed by our club, the National team of Australia, an 'A' league club or an overseas club.
-Have an Australian player trained by the RPT playing in the first team of C. A River Plate in the Argentinean first division.
Operational Strategies
-To establish River Plate Training in the major cities of Australia.
-To develop a talent identification program across Australia in order to find the most suitable players. -To offer world-class developmental coaching programs in Australia with the guidelines of the C.A. River Plate in Argentina.
-To offer young talented Australian players the opportunity to train and play as guest players with River Plate junior teams during their competitive season in Argentina.