The IMG Soccer Academy is part of the IMG Academies located in Bradenton , Florida . A typical day for the student/athelete at Bradenton is classes in the morning followed by athletic training in the afternoon. Students at the academy take accelerated courses and graduate high school a year early, making the players who do not turn pro immediately some of the most heavily recruited prospects in College Soccer .
The academy can trace its roots back to Project 2010 which highlighted ways the USSF could make the men's national team a legitimate threat to win the World Cup by the end of the decade. Two programs that were born from Project 2010 were Generation Adidas (previously called ''Project-40'') and the Bradenton academy. The academy was started in January of 1999 with backing of International Marketing Group (IMG) and Nike .
