FT: 2-2Good game, second half performance from England was a lot better.Plenty of changes in the second half and I feel like England had the stronger squad.— Ned Ozkasim (@nedoz9) April 26, 2023
This US roster is missing a lot of top prospects but that seems pretty common for all nations in youth tournaments.
Blake Irow (Tottenham) Lanre Awesu (West Ham) Finley Hooper (West Ham) Owen Asemota (Arsenal ) Dj Bernard (Liverpool) Toby Bell (Sunderland) Farren Doran (Manchester City)
England, when compared to say France, seems to have all the talent concentrated at the richest clubs from very early ages. Very few players aren't already filtered by this age. https://t.co/YyYCtGwW5e— Tim Keech (@SBunching) April 27, 2023 For me, I’d scrap 9-16 program for smaller clubsStart at 16 and find best talent in UKand pick up the best players that get released— TheSecretScout (@TheSecretScout_) April 27, 2023
Don't agree with that, being part of the system in a local community is a valuable and important process for hundreds, if not thousands of young footballers and the collective of staff, families and friends who support them through it. It's not about the top 1%, it's about everything else. There's an understandable focus on 'who makes it' but academy life and development is about so much more than that.
And it would be discriminatory against those who live near a big academy while those in areas thar a 2 or more hours from a big academy would miss out entirely.
Just a very wrong and very reactionary take based on one squad, which is unusually concentrated among the big clubs at this level. The previous under 15 squad on the last page was drawn from at least 18 different clubs... The under 16 montaigu winning squad from this month had 17 clubs represented in a 24 man squad. A lot will get poached by 17 mind you.
If they think our squad is 'filtered' wait until they see Spain's. 15/23 play for Barca, Real & Atletico.
Same with Portugal and Netherlands https://www.fpf.pt/pt/News/Todas-as-notícias/Notícia/news/39619/contextid/390 Portugal U15 https://www.onsoranje.nl/nieuws/jeu...selectie-onder-15-voor-tweeluik-met-duitsland Netherlands U15
They also won a penalty shootout at the end. A victory against Spain on Sunday would see them win the tournament.
Spain U15 champions with a 2-1 win Goalscorers 🇪🇸 Igor Venancio (Villarreal)Guillermo Fernández (Barcelona)🏴 Harrison miles (Southampton pic.twitter.com/S5xoG9kmUq— TheSecretScout (@TheSecretScout_) April 30, 2023 U15 England v Spain pic.twitter.com/8vf4DVVJvS— TheSecretScout (@TheSecretScout_) April 30, 2023
Harvey Owen’s position is at Centre Back, but is known for stepping into midfield like on this occasion 🚀 #LFC https://t.co/gUsXMOlbL8 pic.twitter.com/oUhnui3Ctu— TheSecretScout (@TheSecretScout_) May 15, 2023
🚨 Understand Man City are closing in on the signing of highly rated Sunderland U14 keeper Toby Bell #MCFC 🔵Boom 💥 🔜 More here https://t.co/qoTHDLKDT4 pic.twitter.com/fwPHTlgVMn— TheSecretScout (@TheSecretScout_) June 5, 2023 Toby Bell moving to Man City it seems.
Another Nwaneri at Arsenal Under-12s. His name is Emerson and he was born in 2010. He also plays for the U13 team.
It is very likely! If the whole family has to move to a new city! But then I think of the case of the Willock brothers, where Matthew went to Manchester and Chris and Joe stayed at Arsenal. I don't know, we'll see
Will Antwi Is the coach for the season assisted by Stuart Delaney and Callum Martin. Goalkeeping coaching duties to be shared by Sam Meek, Anthony White, Adrian Tucker and Matt Doyle.