Australian soccer's Centre of Excellence to shut up shop


  • Football
  • Wednesday, 26 Apr 2017

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's soccer chiefs are to close the country's Centre of Excellence, in the hope that A-League clubs will fill the void in developing young players.

The Canberra centre, linked to the Australian Institute for Sport, will close later this year, with FFA chief executive David Gallop saying the time had come for change.

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