Playing football and studying in Canada: a bet for young people

From its history, it drew the creation of a company, Sport on campuswhich helps young people go to study at Canada or to Québec through soccer. Teenager, Clement Bompart is passionate about the ball, and rather talented. Noticed, he joined the training center of theOlympic Marseille and spent five years there. In 2013, as a young adult, he had the opportunity to go to Nova Scotia, Canada, and attend the English-speaking University of Cape Breton: “A sports scholarship paid for all my school fees and even my plane ticket. All I had to do was leave!”

The experience marked the young man, to the point that he wanted to make this system better known, which is similar to that of sports studies, “because in France, we are not very familiar with recruitment in universities where high-level sport is combined with real academic activity. However, there is something very interesting to do there because recruiters from professional clubs regularly come to the meeting young people. This is what happened to Guillaume Pianelli-Balisoni, a former member of the SCB training center who is for the moment the only Corsican to have tried the adventure thanks to us by joining the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, near Montreal, in 2018. His work has been noticed and he will join a professional club in the Canadian Premier League, Forge FC, in the province of Ontario.”

A detection day on Sunday at the Tassistro stadium

To convince young footballers – and footballers – aged 17 to 24, Sport on campus is organizing an information and detection day this Sunday at the Bonifacio stadium. “where I had a very good contact with the president of the club and the young people who take care of it. It is the first time that we have organized an event of this type in Corsica, but it was close to my heart and had some makes sense to me, especially since I have just spent a year at the IUT de Corte in DU Creatacc (writing-directing) for the production of my first short fiction film.”

Sunday, therefore, the half-day will begin at 2:30 p.m. with a conference presenting the Canadian university system, which will also focus on the status of student-athlete, the study programs to be targeted, scholarships and the best how to present your career path to be selected: “It’s a bit administrative, technical, but useful so that young people have at least an idea of ​​what awaits them”develops Clément Bompart, whose company has created links with seven Quebec universities and fifteen in Canada.

A question-and-answer session will also be organized by videoconference with a coach. “so that young people can ask their questions directly, more precisely. The idea is that they leave with as much information as possible.” A small session of individual interviews will then be organized, and finally a match with the young people of the JSB. “This sporting part is important because it allows us to make video images of the youngster to complete the paper CV that will be sent to recruiters. Few have images of them playing when it can make all the difference .”

Then, we will have to let the talent of young people take their course and be patient, because the integrations will take place in Quebec or Canadian universities in January or September 2023. “The administrative delays for visas of this kind are long. Usually, we have two recruitment sessions each year, one in the fall, the other at the very beginning of spring to precisely have time to carry out all the formalities Here, we did things differently, and we will also have recruitment sessions this month in Quimper and Biarritz.”continues Clément Bompart.

About 80 young student-athletes have left for one to four years with Sport on campus since 2015. It remains to be seen whether Corsicans will be tempted by the adventure and will join the program in the coming months.

Pre-registration is done on the sportoncampus.com website, events section.

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