{"id":43603,"date":"2021-03-02T10:53:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T09:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruyffalumni.org\/johancruyffinstitute-2026\/eu-athletes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:45:34","slug":"eu-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/the-magazine\/latest-news\/eu-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration agreement with EU Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/about-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johan Cruyff Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> establishes a partnership with the European Elite Athletes Association (EU Athletes) with the aim of providing <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/academic-programs\/\">academic training<\/a> to its community<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"thevelop-dropcap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/about-us\/\"><strong>J<\/strong><\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/about-us\/\"><strong>ohan Cruyff Institute <\/strong><\/a>will offer to <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euathletes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU Athletes<\/a><\/span> special conditions to access its academic training in\u00a0<a href=\"\/?cat_ID=23\">Sport Management<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/sport-marketing-and-sponsorship\/\">Sport Marketing and Sponsorship<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"\/?cat_ID=86\">Football Business<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/coaching-2\/\">Coaching<\/a> as a result of the agreement recently signed between the two entities.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euathletes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU Athletes<\/a> is the leading multi-sport federation for athletes and player associations from European countries. It represents the collective voice of over 25,000 European professional athletes and serves to defend and promote their interests and to share best practices between its member associations, as well as to formulate collective policies on behalf of players, and develop and deliver education and <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/academic-programs\/\">training programs<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sht-blockquote alignleft\"><p> &#8220;I believe our cooperation will have a direct and positive effect on many athletes that we represent, by expanding their future opportunities and therefore improving their well-being.&#8221; &#8211; Paulina Tomczyk, general secretary at EU Athletes <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;For <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/euathletes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EU Athletes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and for our members, education, personal development\u00a0and dual career opportunities for athletes are key\u00a0priorities. This partnership will facilitate and promote our member athletes&#8217; participation in the wide range of <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/academic-programs\/\">programs<\/a> that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/about-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johan Cruyff Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offers,&#8221; says EU Athletes general secretary, <\/span><b>Paulina Tomczyk<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. &#8220;It is essential that athletes gain knowledge, develop interests and skills, and explore their identity outside of the game. I believe our cooperation will have a direct and positive effect on many athletes that we represent, by expanding their future opportunities and therefore improving their well-being.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Cruyff Institute establishes a partnership with the European Elite Athletes Association (EU Athletes) with the aim of providing academic training to its community EU Athletes is the leading multi-sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,228],"tags":[619],"editorial_type":[400],"class_list":["post-43603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-blog-en","tag-corporate-partners"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62730,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43603\/revisions\/62730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43603"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_type?post=43603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}