Business Insider UK spoke to Michael Calvin, author of the book "No Hunger in Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream," ([ Ссылка ]) about how Manchester City has successfully tackled a major problem in football academies in England.

Here's a transcript of the video:

Academies of their very essence are a good idea.

The problem is that the ills of senior football – greed, opportunism, the stockpiling of talent unnecessarily for commercial gain – are seeping down into junior football.

That's what's happening in the academies of the major clubs where boys are going in, they're sucked into the system. They're taken over by the dream.

But, realistically, all they would do is sit there and wait for a chance that will never come.

The more enlightened academies – if you look at Manchester City, for instance. They realised that the modern child is missing some of the old school virtues of flexibility, agility.

A sense of space that you would get from, say, climbing a tree in the previous generation. So, they actually organised that.

They also want to try and have a social conscience. Instill that conscience into the boys.

So, they'll go and serve at a local soup kitchen. That's very, very good and very grounding for boys who all their lives are just told how wonderful they are.

It's good for them to realise that there's a big bad world out there and they might actually encounter it sooner than they believe.

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