Ellery Camp
Ellery Camp is a tree village on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Ellery looking across the Goolengook River towards Bola Mine. It is famous for its fine footballing tradition and is home to the National Football Academy. Like Fanny Moo it is also famous for its leeches.
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Location
The southern slopes of Mount Ellery, to the west of the capital, First Creek Falls.
Prominent People
This sleepy housetree village came to prominence throughout NationStates because of the antics of footballers antarcticad and oreadest. antarcticad eventually became head of the National Football Academy situated in Ellery Camp.
National Football Academy
Establishment
Football in Errinundera was almost single-handedly established by the enthusiastic efforts of filthyl who became the inaugural captain-coach of the national team and later the nation's Protector of Sport.
Initially the sport was taken up by cities, towns and villages of the central Plateau and Ellery forest regions and spread from there to the rest of the country. The villages performed well at first but as the richer cities adopted the beautiful game the forest teams declined. Ellery Camp is such a tree village and was a founding member of the Errinundera Football Association.
The mayor at the time, washingd, wisely saw that unless the village could promote itself some way, it would inevitably decline as a footballing power. Even before the inaugural season began washingd was lobbying filthyl, the government and the EFA for an academy to be established at Ellery Camp.
filthyl was keen to get the forest villages involved. He also feared that the sport might be perceived as dominated by the capital, First Creek Falls. The notion of an academy appealed to him as an obvious way to promote the spread of the sport in Errinundera. Approval for the academy was swiftly given.
Role
The aims of the Academy are
- To promote the beautiful game at a local, regional, national and international level by developing the skills of players.
- To select the most gifted young players so that they can benefit from the best possible coaching and application of scientific methods.
- To encourage the personal development of these players by providing full support educationally, socially, emotionally, medically and scientifically.
- To enhance rapport with other nations by establishing international networks and developing sporting competition.
The academy accepts footballers from 15 years of age through to 22. It is also the training base of the national team, with a complete coaching, medical and scientific support team.
It provides a full secondary school curriculum for students and is a faculty of the nearby Underground University of Mount Ellery where older students can also further their tertiary education.
International Scholarships and Exchange Programs
The Academy has from the beginning sought to create links with other nations by offering scholarships and exhange programs. Most notably young players from the former nation of Tanah Burung attended for one year. Recently the academy invited Ariddia to send a young player and was very pleased that the invitation was accepted.
The following items are available from the Errinundera news media archives:
- YOUNG TANAH BURUNG SOCCER HOPEFUL SHIVERS WITH EXCITEMENT
- ZENZA'S PULSE QUICKENS IN ELLERY CAMP
- A QUIET ARIDDIAN ASSUMES A NEW LIFE
- ECONOMICS AND SPORT DO MATCH SAYS ARIDDIAN FOOTBALLER
News Media
Local Newspaper: Ellery Camp Pravda
