Top 3 London Youth Football Academies Scout Report 2024/2025: Chester Isaacs, Emmanuel Ziro, Corey Holden, Hamza Jamaleddin, Camri Gettin, Morgan Stacul

London produces some of the world’s best players.

That’s not an opinion; it’s a fact.

Transfermarket.co.uk recently analysed which cities produced the most valuable players.

London reached the top of the list, producing €1.6bn worth of talent.

Players such as Declan Rice and Harry Kane have contributed greatly, making moves in excess of £100 million over the past three transfer windows.

London has produced more Premier League players than any other region in England.

At the beginning of the 2023/24 season, 275 players from the capital have made an appearance in England’s top flight.

London is home to some of the biggest clubs in the world, with Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, and four other Premier League clubs situated in arguably football’s greatest hotbed.

The question is, where does this talent come from?

To nurture raw talent, a positive environment is required, with coaches at every level laying the groundwork to help create the next superstar.

Before players enter academy football, their journey starts in grassroots football.

Local parks across Greater London are full of promising youngsters.

In this tactical analysis, presented as a scout report, we will utilise the youth talent identification system Eyeball to highlight three academies based in London that aren’t directly affiliated with a professional club.

This analysis will cover the success of these academies in producing players for professional clubs and analyse the next exciting talents to emerge from these clubs.

Kinetic Academy 

Founded by Harry Hudson and James Fothreingham in 2011, Kinetic Academy is more than your typical talent development centre.

Based in the football hotbed of South London, the academy aims to provide elite football training and deliver an education program that will help young people progress to employment and higher education.

Kinetic has been successful on both fronts.

Kinetic Academy has seen an incredible 94% of their graduates move on to higher education or employment.

Impressively, theyve also played a part in 72 of their graduates signing professional contracts.

Most notably, Southampton and Nigeria international Joe Aribo.

This constant stream of talent emerging from the Kinetic Academy doesnt appear to be stopping any time soon. 

Chester Isaacs Scouting Report

One of the most exciting talents at Kinetic Academy is 17-year-old Chester Isaacs.

Playing as a centre-forward, Issacs has a deep hunger to score goals.

Isaacs has shown his goalscoring ability by finding the net against the academy sides of professional clubs.

He averages 1.21 goals per game.

Out of the 4.4 shots he takes per 90, 3.5 of these shots come from inside the penalty area.

Here, Chester is in the box, awaiting the delivery of a wide free kick.

He slowly makes his way towards the front post.

He then