Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines

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Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines (French pronunciation: [klɛʁfɔ̃tɛn ɑ̃.n‿ivlin] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is the base of the Clairefontaine French National football academy.

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Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines
Place de la Mairie, Rambouillet

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N 48.6131 °	E 1.9086 °

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Place de la Mairie 8
78120 Rambouillet
Ile-de-France, France
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INF Clairefontaine

The INF Clairefontaine ("Institut national du football de Clairefontaine"), known as INF or simply Clairefontaine, is the national football centre that specialises in training French football players. The INF Clairefontaine is a section of the CNF Clairefontaine. The academy is one of sixteen élite academies located in and around France that are supervised by the French Football Federation (FFF). Only the best players from the Île-de-France région train at the Clairefontaine academy. The twelve other academies are situated in Castelmaurou, Châteauroux, Liévin, Dijon, Marseille, Ploufragan, Vichy and Reims, Réunion, Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, Guadeloupe and Talence.Clairefontaine opened in 1988 and is named after Fernand Sastre, the president of the FFF from 1972–1984. The academy is located 50 km southwest of Paris at Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines and is one of the best known football academies in the world. It has a high reputation of producing some of the most gifted French and non-French players including Nicolas Anelka, Louis Saha, William Gallas, Hatem Ben Arfa, Abou Diaby, Medhi Benatia, Blaise Matuidi, Raphaël Guerreiro, Kylian Mbappé, and Thierry Henry. The CNF Clairefontaine is also used to house the national football team of France and the centre drew media spotlight following its usage as a base camp by the France team that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

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