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Scheme</h1><div class="newsComment">Spain shared the secrets of its youth success with guests from Poland, Russia and Ukraine as Europe's FAs continue to share technical know-how under the UEFA Study Group Scheme. </div><div class="more"><a href="/web/20120129145455/http://www.uefa.com/uefa/footballfirst/footballdevelopment/studygroupscheme/news/newsid=1723311.html#expertise+exchanged+study+group+scheme">Read more</a></div></div><div class="def_Newsbody"><div class="innerText clearfix"><div class="clearLeft innGrid_5 newsBody"><div class="newsText"><p>The exchange of technical expertise and know-how between UEFA's 53 member national associations – developed under the innovative UEFA Study Group Scheme – continues to progress, with the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) staging a seminar on an area in which Spain has excelled in recent times: elite youth football.</p><p>The RFEF and its technical department, under the leadership of current European Under-19 champion coach Ginés Meléndez, played host to the associations of Poland, Russia and Ukraine to share their knowledge and experience. Many of the current crop of Spanish players who have enjoyed EURO and FIFA World Cup glory rose through the country's junior ranks.</p><p>The Study Group Scheme, an initiative of UEFA President Michel Platini, aims to facilitate a wider sharing of technical knowledge and to raise pan-European standards through, for example, visits by association specialists – with the help of UEFA funding – to gather technical tips in other associations, particularly their clubs. All UEFA member associations are involved, as associations visit one another to swap know-how, experience and best practice in coach education as well as youth, women's and grassroots football.</p><p>"We feel very honoured to cooperate with UEFA in the Study Group Scheme to explain the work we are doing in our football, not only at federation level, but also the excellent work done by Spanish clubs with respect to the coaches' education and development in the youth football sector," said Ángel María Villar Llona, RFEF president and UEFA third vice-president. 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