German Youth Discussion Thread Vol. III [R]

Didavi isn't quick.

 

He looked quick at least on 3 occasions. For his first goal which was Nurnberg's third and two other runs he made with the ball in the beginning of the second half.

 

Another good game. Goal, assist. He isn't the fastest, yes. But great shots, good passing.
Debut for Samed Yesil. Nice

 

Another beautiful goal by Didavi. The assist was very good too. Take a bow, son !

 

Wow Germany u17 had a friendly match vs Austria u17 yesterday as preparation for the Euro u17 and Marc Stendera got his first ever call up and the first start and he scored both goals ! His second goal was a great long range shot. Also, they gave him the number 10 jersey. He is short, quick and skillful playmaker (plays similar style to Goetze).Also, in the highlights he made a good dribble and cross to Benkarit who hit the post. Here is the video :

http://tv.dfb.de/index.php?view=4333

Final score: Germany 2 : 1 Austria

Deutschland

Schnitzler (41. Schwäbe)
Itter, Kempf (76. Akpoguma), Süle, Dudziak (41. Lingerski)
Brandenburger (63. Stark), Goretzka (50. Steinmann)
Dittgen (54. Hilßner), Stendera (54. Meyer), Brandt (41. Lohkemper)
Benkarit (41. Werner)

Österreich

Lucic
Brandner, Rafajac (54. Rasner), Madlmayer (74. Rosenbichler), Blauensteiner (41. Hölzl)
Lovric, Michorl (63. Gösweiner)
Kuen (31. Markoutz), Blutsch,Kascher
Grubeck (52. Grillitsch)

Statistik:
Zuschauer 4122
Tore

1:0 Stendera (22.)
2:0 Stendera (52.)
2:1 Markoutz (78.)

 

Eintracht Frankfurt won 4-0 and Sonny Kittel scored the second. Very good composure. It looks easy but it's not. Sebastian Jung scored the third and it was a very good goal. As I said, I watched him last game and was impressed- good going forward and good defensively. We'll see next season in the Bundesliga. Sebastian Rode made that Xavi esque assist for that 3rd goal. I checked his stats for this season and he has 10 assists in 30 matches. Considering he is a deep lying midfielder and only 21 years old, that's great stats and great vision. Here are the highlights :

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Nj96aMuI0"]Eintracht Frankfurt - Erzgebirge Aue 14.04.2012 4:0 (Sportschau) - YouTube[/ame]

 

Stendera plays at Supporting striker for Frankfurt's B-Jugend team

Interesting to see Brandt(a year younger, born in 1996) is alreeady a starter for the U17, starting at LW

 

Dont forget that this was just a friendly match. In the Euro, Max Meyer will start over Stendera and Gnabry will be chosen on the left wing ahead of Brandt.

 

Matthias Ginter from Freiburg continues to play every min of every match ( i mean in the last maybe 2 months) AS A CENTRAL DEFENDER !!! The boy turned 18 just 3 months ago. Freiburg kept a clean sheet vs Hoffenheim.Most coaches dont like to play young inexperienced players in key central positions (like central defense and central midfield)because it can cost them. They like to put them out wide. Freiburg are fighting for survival and the coach(streich) has put him in the most important position and the team keeps getting results. With him in central defense they've conceded
0 vs Gladbach away from home
1 vs Hamburg away from home
0 vs lautern at home
0 vs leverkusen away from home
2 vs nurnberg at home
1 vs hertha away
0 vs hoffenheim
they've conceded 4 goals in 7 games and kept 4 clean sheets with an 18 year old in central defense and that was the bottom team of the league for big parts of the season. Isn't that good ? I havent really watched Ginter to say how good he is but he is certainly doing a lot of things right to get himself in this position.

 

The friendly against the Czech Republic April 17 (U-19)



Keepers


Timo Horn......................... 12/05/1993 FirsFC Köln
Patrick Rakovsky............... 02/06/1993 First FC Nuremberg


Defense

John Geis......................... 08/17/1993 Greuther Fuerth
Koray Günter.................... 16/08/1994 Borussia Dortmund
Florian Hartherz............. 29/05/1993 Werder Bremen
Dominique Heintz.............. 15/08/1993 First FC Kaiserslautern
André Hoffmann................ 02/28/1993 MSV Duisburg
Antonio Rüdiger................ 03/03/1993 VfB Stuttgart
Nico Schulz...................... 01/04/1993 Hertha BSC


Midfield

Leonardo Bittencourt ............ 19/12/1993 Energie Cottbus
Sebastian gardener .............. 02/03/1993 FC Nuremberg
Edison Jordanov................... 06/08/1993 FC Hansa Rostock
Sonny Kittel.................... ... 01/06/1993 Eintracht Frankfurt
Sead Kolasinac..................... 06/20/1993 FC Schalke 04
Vladimir Rankovic................... 27/06/1993 FC Bayern Munich
Tom Trybull ........................ 03/09/1993 SV Werder Bremen
Amin Younes........................ 06/08/1993 Mönchengladbach


Attack

Philipp Hofmann...................... 30/03/1993 FC Schalke 04
Roussel Ngankam................... 15/09/1993 Hertha BSC Berlin
Shawn Parker ....................... 03/07/1993 FSV Mainz 05


Good chance to see Jordanov, Kittel, Bittencourt. Emre Can?

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No Draxler n Niclas Fuellkrug??

Fuellkrug is better than the 3 selected strikers

 

Hrubesch may be experimenting something different. I suspect Bittencourt and Kittel are strong on the ball, so is Jordanov; we may see mini Barca. Would have been great to see Can in the mix.

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Can is still injured, I think.

I'm still not 100% sure we'll qualify. I've seen the games against Belgium and the Netherlands of this team and they were average to below average despite the individual quality of the players.

I hope Draxler will be available for the Elite round.

 

I agree with that. I dont think this Germany u19 has played well but there is so much individual quality. Apart from Can,Draxler and Fuellkrug not being called up, there are also other very good players not being called up - Danny da Costa, Markus Mendler and Moritz Goettel who is the topscorer at u19s level but has never been called up at any level for Germany. Very strange that.

Matthias Sammer has talked about instilling winning mentality and doing well in those youth tournaments is very important to him. I am sure he will do his best to make sure Draxler participates in the Elite round. Draxler and Schalke probably think that u19s level is too low for him and it is not good for his development but in the end I am sure he will eventually play.
If Germany u19s qualify for the Euro u19s and finish in top 3 (out of 4 teams)of the group stages there, they will participate in the world cup u20 next year. That's important.

 

This

Never really understand this too. He was in tv.dfb couple of months ago, still see him as a good prospect

 

U17 Euro Squad

Name Geburtstag Verein Spiele Tore

Tor
Oliver Schnitzler 13.10.1995 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 11 -
Marvin Schwäbe 25.04.1995 Eintracht Frankfurt 6 -

Abwehr
Kevin Akpoguma 19.04.1995 Karlsruher SC 12 -
Jeremy Dudziak 28.08.1995 Borussia Dortmund 13 2
Pascal Itter 03.04.1995 1. FC Nürnberg 14 1
Marc Oliver Kempf 28.01.1995 Eintracht Frankfurt 9 -
Leon Lingerski 03.05.1995 Werder Bremen 8 -
Marian Sarr 30.01.1995 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 12 2
Niklas Süle 03.09.1995 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 13 3

Mittelfeld
Nico Brandenburger 17.01.1995 Borussia Mönchengladbach 9 1
Maximilian Dittgen 03.03.1995 FC Schalke 04 12 -
Serge Gnabry 14.07.1995 FC Arsenal 12 3
Leon Goretzka 06.02.1995 VfL Bochum 13 3
Christian Mauersberger 20.04.1995 Chemnitzer FC 10 -
Max Meyer 18.09.1995 FC Schalke 04 13 6
Niklas Stark 14.04.1995 1. FC Nürnberg 2 -
Marc Stendera 10.12.1995 Eintracht Frankfurt 1 2

Angriff
Said Benkarit 12.01.1995 Borussia Dortmund 13 9
Julian Brandt 02.05.1996 VfL Wolfsburg 4 -
Felix Lohkemper 26.01.1995 VfB Stuttgart 7 2
Timo Werner 06.03.1996 VfB Stuttgart 1 -

Abruf
Lukas Fröde 23.01.1995 Werder Bremen 7 -
Faiz Gbadamassi 23.01.1995 SC Freiburg 4 -
Jan Gyamerah 18.06.1995 VfL Bochum 2 -
Marcel Hilßner 30.01.1995 SV Werder Bremen 11 1
Fabian Holthaus 17.01.1995 VfL Bochum 1 -
Daniel Mesenhöler 24.07.1995 1. FC Köln 1 -
Kenan Mujezinovic 03.06.1995 VfB Stuttgart - -
Hany Mukhtar 21.03.1995 Hertha BSC 3 1
Federico Palacios-Martinez 09.04.1995 VfL Wolfsburg 2 -
Matti Steinmann 08.01.1995 Hamburger SV 3 -

Still 3 players to be cut - most likely Lingerski, Stark and Brandt.

 

I dont understand why Stefan Boeger doesnt like Marcel Hilssner. He is such a good talent. The Elite round matches were in his city Bremen and he sat on the bench most of the time (played only 30 min in 3 matches). In the end of the day what is important is that the player makes it in the Bundesliga and those youth tournaments are not everything but the experience there definitely helps.

Leon Goretzka said in an interview that he wants to make his professional debut with Bochum. He is a local boy and really loves the club. He will not move in the summer. Bochum's first team coach said that Goretzka will be part of the first team squad from the start of next season. It will be good if he stays there for the next two seasons and then move to a mid table club(like Mainz if Tuchel is still there) in the Bundesliga where he will get plenty of playing time. For example, Emre Can would have been playing in the 2nd division with Eintracht this season if he had stayed there instead of playing in the fourth division with Bayern Munich's reserves.

 

Wondering why Davie Selke is no longer an option?

He used to play pretty well for our U16/U17?

 

Compilation of Serge Gnabry's 2011-2012 season with Arsenal. He's been unbelievable for both the u18s and the reserves and he is only 16.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaveY50AJa8"]Serge Gnabry - The German Wonderkid (2011-12) - YouTube[/ame]

 

Just read on twitter than Gnabry is ruled out due to injury.

Any news on that Mirka?

 

Who is Mirka ?

 

The current u19 side could field 9 players who have started the 1. bundesliga in their career (Maybe I have forgotten someone):
Da Costa, Ginter, Rüdiger, Hartherz
Kittel, Mendler, Trybull, Draxler,
Fülkrug

Almost an entire team. In adition Arnold, Weiser, Yesil, Kohr are born in 1994 and have been on the pitch in the 1. bl. That seems to me to be quite impressive, but I do not know how they compare to earlier German u19 teams or to other nations' u19 setup.

 

A nice interview with Sammer.
http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=511739&tx_dfbnews_pi1[showUid]=32781&tx_dfbnews_pi4[cat]=121

He really hopes Germany u17 win the Euro u17. There are some leaders in that team who can guide the team to success like Leon Goretzka,Niklas Süle, Marian Saar, Pascal Itter and goalkeeper Oliver Schnitzler. He says winning those youth tournaments is important. Also, he has high hopes for the u19s in the Elite Round. Given the fact that the the non-competitive teams like the u20,u18,u16 and u15 win almost all their matches, he really wants to see Germany win more youth tournaments to get that very important winning mentality. He believes Germany has improved massively in the last 6 years since he became the the sporting director of DFB and obviously mentions that there were 10 German national team players who were in the semis of the Champions League and Bayern being in the final. Of course, Sammer gives credit to other people like Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder and Wolfgang Niersbach( and some others) for the improvement of German football.

 

A nice hat trick by Samed Yesil against his hometown club Dusseldorf. I liked his second goal. The movement for the third was good. He is now the topscorer with 18 goals. 3 goals in front of the second. However, Marvin Ducksch has stopped playing at that level for a long time. Marvin is playing in the 4th division and scoring goals there.

http://tv.dfb.de/index.php?view=4371

 

Its nice to see Marvin Ducksch is already scoring regularly in the Regional bundesliga (4th division). Ducksch scored more goals than he played in both the A-Jugend and B-Jugend Leagues.

Yesil will have more chance in the 1st team next season since Derdiyok has left.

Both Ducksch n Yesil, along with Benkarit n Timo Werner are the best striker prospects in the country



BTW,
http://www.fussballtransfers.com/bu...289?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Lasogga to Werder Bremen? any comment?