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#AFCAwards2018 | AFC International Player of the Year: Makoto Hasebe (JPN) pic.twitter.com/2cWIJ54z4Y

— AFC (@theafcdotcom) November 28, 2018

 

Couple of dual national youths among neighbouring countries of Germany:

Turkey's RB of the future, Mert Muldur is born and developed in Austria but has only represented Turkey internationally. Looks to be doing pretty well with Rapid Wien this season as a 19 y/o and scored vs Spartak Moscow today in EL.

FC Zurich played a 2001-born Bledian Krasniqi in the EL today. Dual national with Kosovo eligibility but has so far represented the Swiss between U16-18 only.

 

English players starting Premier League games reaches record low

The number of English players starting Premier League games has reached record lows over the past two weekends.

Only 53 players - less than a quarter of all starters beginning games for top-flight clubs in Premier League game week 14 - were eligible to represent England, down from 55 last weekend.

Bournemouth were the Premier League club to name the most English players in their starting side, with seven.

But Chelsea and Newcastle did not name a single English player in their XIs.

Data from analysts Gracenote shows the previous record low was 58 in four different match rounds during the 2015-16 season.

England boss Gareth Southgate says it is "a big concern".

"There's a lot of investment in academies and young players and there needs to be opportunity and jobs for them," said Southgate, who added that last year the average number of English starters was 33%.

"It's a concern for the clubs as well, everyone is very mindful of the young age group," he said.

"What's clear for everybody is we don't want to see that number diminish further, we just need to work on how we get experience that gives first-team managers the confidence to pick them.

"Managers don't usually have long-term security and so it makes it more difficult to pick home-grown players."

Arsenal, Manchester City and Wolves all named just one English starter in their sides at the weekend.

Of the 53 English players who did start in the Premier League almost half, 26, have already been capped by England.

Gracenote adds that five of the 27 uncapped players could choose to play for another national team - they were Mark Noble and Sean Morrison who qualify for Ireland, Tyrone Mings for Barbados, Andrew Surman for South Africa and Aaron Wan-Bissaka for DR Congo.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46431989


talk about diminishing pool of player. I hope 1BL never becomes like EPL where 3/4 of the league is foreign.

 

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Marko Arnautovic, who's still one of the top players for the Ösi's gets rejected by West Ham from moving to the Chinese league

In response to the statement from the brother and agent of Marko Arnautovic this afternoon, the Club has issued the following: pic.twitter.com/6A2p3glFhg

— West Ham United (@WestHam) January 10, 2019

Marko Arnautovic's agent to TalkSPORT today:

"West Ham have a fantastic offer. It is close to double what they paid for him. He wants to go to a new market & challenge for titles. This is what he wants.
It's his great desire that West Ham accept the offer from China." pic.twitter.com/Dfr8F103Vg

— Footy Accumulators (@FootyAccums) January 10, 2019

 

this shows how crappy Germany was in 2018 WC playing well below their capabilities.

South Korea in Asian Cup
GS 1 1-0 win vs Philippines
GS 2 1-0 win vs Kyrgyzstan
GS 3 2-0 win vs China

R16 2-1 win ET over Bahrain
QF 1-0 loss to Qatar

this team can barely beat anyone.....

 

Damn it, Qatar won the Asian Cup, meaning another Spaniard has his hands on an international trophy. Bummer.

 

don't think anyone expected Qatar to win and they are also participating in Copa America this year. That's good for them as the host of the next WC.

 

You're right about that.

I must say it's pretty weird to have Asian countries participate in the South American tournament. Concacaf countries I can roll with that due to the geographic proximity, but Asian countries are a real head scratcher.

 

believe that this Copa America interfered with the Gold Cup so no Concacaf teams went. As for Qatar they are there likely there because they paid, as WC hosts you have less competitive games to play between now and WC. Japan was also invited.

plenty of reports about a 2020 Copa America and from there all Copa will be every 4 years, so no longer any issues between Copa and Gold Cup and it aligns with Euros.

 

Shoya Nakajima to a Qatari club for 35 Mio

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Alisson has saved just 36.4% of shots he has faced in the Premier League in 2019, the lowest save-percentage among all 20 goalkeepers to have made 3+ PL apps in 2019.

A frightening statistic. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/Km2fm0etv3

— Squawka (@Squawka) February 4, 2019

 

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so is Poland producing more strikers at top level than Germany?

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That is true. Moving past Lewandowski, I'd say that Milik and Piatek are ahead of any German produced striker in quite some time now

 

Haris Seferović has been in amazing form since the turn of the new year and is out-scoring some pretty big names 👀🔥 pic.twitter.com/FEzbrYSeTT

— COPA90 (@Copa90) February 25, 2019

 

Haris Seferovic is having quite the season with @slbenfica_en 🔥#DidYouKnow that he scored the winning goal for 🇨🇭Switzerland in the 2009 #U17WC final?#HBD Haris! 🎂 pic.twitter.com/35SzDc8wDp

— FIFA (@FIFAcom) February 22, 2019

 

Polish fans had Kownacki as a potentially better talent than Milik and Piatek

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Wolfsburg's Wout Weghorst to be part of the Holland NT that will face Germany in the upcoming international matches

Wout #Weghorst, Mittelstürmer vom @VfL_Wolfsburg, ist für die niederländische Nationalmannschaft nominiert worden. Trainer Ronald Koeman hat den 26-Jährigen für die Spiele in der EM-Qualifikation gegen Weißrussland und Deutschland in den Kader berufen. ▶️ https://t.co/yBlAH0QVug pic.twitter.com/96IxCtUZ0I

— AZ/WAZ Sport (@azwazsport) March 6, 2019

 

30 - Arkadiusz #Milik has scored his 30th goal with Napoli in all competitions, the fifth in European competitions. Ready.#EuropaLeague #NapoliSalisburgo

— OptaPaolo (@OptaPaolo) March 7, 2019

 

Embolo looks to be Switzerland's next striker after Seferovic. Injuries have affected his development though.

Starting XI comeback ✅
Two goals ✅

An encouraging performance from Breel #Embolo last night 💪#s04 pic.twitter.com/pdkJNsvkFt

— FC Schalke 04 (@s04_en) March 9, 2019

 

The Swiss have some quality young players rising. Elvedi and Mbabu in defence, Zakaria, Edimilson Fernandes and Djibril Sow in midfield, Embolo, Albian Ajeti and Noah Okafor in attack.

 

Kosovo with some good wing attackers emerging with Werder's Milot Rashica and Reims' Arber Zeneli

 

Bad news for Switzerland.

It seems that Haris Seferovic, who was injured during Benfica's #EuropaLeague match on Thursday, will miss both of Switzerland's international matches vs. Georgia & Denmark later this month. https://t.co/rUk9rrin2G

— Craig King - 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗦𝘄𝗶𝘀𝘀EN (@FootballSwissEN) March 9, 2019