From what I can gather, their births were registered at the following times - so they could have been born up to 6 weeks sooner, but no later than these dates: Jude Bellingham - July 2003 James Trafford - October 2002 James McAtee - November 2002 Joe Hodge - too many kids with that name to be confident, but the only one registered in Manchester was in Sep 2002 Taylor Harwood-Bellis (N.B. not Sam, unless you're talking about a different kid?) - Feb 2002
Thanks for your input Gavin. I'll forgive him for not supporting Manchester's finest. I assume he's part of the age group that keep humping ours 9-0 or so every season which makes any Man U supporter sick to the stomach whenever you hear it mentioned!
Final is this afternoon, 4pm UK time I think (according to the website anyway), there's a chance there's a livestream too. Will post it if it materialises.
Think the team is Moulden, Livramento, Wood-Gordon, Robinson, Dorsett, Musah, Hodge, Rogers, Osorio, Mighten, Pennant.
0-0 HT, USA have had the better chances but England more control of the game, closest they came was when Mighten/Rogers (missed who it was) closed down their CB in possession and gave Pennant a one-on-one he took too early, still needed a good save to keep it out.
it was from a Corner, US guy did a downward header, didn't seem a great deal of pace but I think it bounced awkwardly in front of Moulden who spilled it to a US player who poked it in.
USA 2-1 up with three minutes left, nice one-two to break the high England line and a very composed finish.
USA win, probably deserved it based on the performance in the final alone. Thought Musah played well for England, Rogers was handy as well, and Gelhardt knows how to play CF as a lone striker very well. Lots of interesting players for the journey up to U16 next season.
Thought it was really tough to judge on the actual game due to many changes, especially at halftime onwards so made it tough but the coach rightly made the changes to give as many of the kids the opportunity to play in a final as they are still developing, learning and most importantly they need to enjoy themselves. Plenty of really promising young talents here though so just hope they stay grounded and keep learning from there respective Coaches.
If previous seasons are to go by we should starting hearing names beginning of July. End of June at a push.
So basically Bellingham & Musiala seem like the only one's returning for u15 involvement at this stage that we know. Not sure on Celtic's Dembele ?
I asked that question because I know there's a Man United 2003 lad at St.George yesterday/today and his team actually have a match against Strewburry today at Carrington...
Just a bit of info. Enoch Asante at Spurs did a livestream on instagram and said the best players in his age group are Pennant, Bennie (Smales-Braithwaite?) and Tino is that Valentino? Also @itfcjoe in case you did not know, Knight, Zak Brown and Lewis Gibbs went to San Diego with Spurs u15s, apparently borrowed not on trial. Knight was excellent. Brown was powerful and useful uptop. I know we have good links but I'd imagine we might try and go for Knight, scored in every game
Agree. Emergency loans for goalkeepers might be slightly understandable but I'd personally bring some of the younger players, but that's just me.