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Post by merse on Jul 26, 2010 10:45:20 GMT
A new way of scoring penalties from the EUFA under 19s Well done that man......................given Anthony something else to go and practise in the cage on day 2 of the dreaded school holidays. At least it's more constructive than what I caught him doing just now....................crawling under a parked transit van "to take a look at the engine"
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Post by merse on Jul 27, 2010 15:40:11 GMT
I heard on SkySports News today that Fabio Capello had no intention of watching for himself the England U19s in their semi final with Spain this afternoon..........not that it prevented him from watching it on Eurosport but it's not the point really is it. The same reporter claimed that Capello and Noel Blake had never met. What does that tell you about the current England set up and the serious attitude that is needed to provide a consistent through flow of talent to the full England set up? What does that tell you about the standing and respect for Blake amongst the top echelons of England's football structure, indeed what does it tell you about the chances of many of these young players being treated with confidence and respect as their careers progress? Not a very healthy situation in my opinion and yet another underlying reason for the decline of our national team.
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Post by Rags on Jul 27, 2010 16:16:27 GMT
I heard on SkySports News today that Fabio Capello has no intention of watching for himself the England U19s in their semi final with Spain this evening..........not that it prevents him from watching it on Eurosport but it's not the point really is it. Having watched the semi-final I was pleased that the aimless hoofing forward up the right-hand channel appeared to have been confined to the bench, although 'keeper Rudd was trying to keep the tactic alive. The Spaniard's first goal was due to some intelligent play by the scorer, Pacheco, who hung back and arrived late, unmarked, onto a cross pulled back to the edge of the penalty area; a similar opportunity for England went begging before then as all their forwards crowded into the same area thus providing only one option for the cross. The Spanish always had a team-mate open for a pass and the English rarely did: a sign of the Spaniard's superiority at pressing; and the English attacks rarely ended with a chance as Spain had 10 attempts to England's 4. Capello's absence could mean a lot of things (I'm not sure if Del Bosque was there either), but its not as if any of the Under-19's are knocking on the door for Brazil 2014 consideration, are they?
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Post by merse on Jul 27, 2010 16:51:39 GMT
Although the U19s were well beaten (3-1) by the Spanish this afternoon, the nation's U17 side beat the Spaniards in the final of the EUFA Championships for their level in May when it was staged in Leichenstein. There are some very talented young players in that squad of which the stand out one is Ipswich Town striker Connor Whickham and one of the most remarkable is 16 year old Saido Berahino (WBA) who arrived in this country as a refugee with his mother seeking political asylum from Burundi just five years ago unable to speak English ~ French being his first language. There is also a youngster playing in the squad two years above his age group ~ 15 year old Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea) whilst I also hear great things about Arsenal's striker Benike Afobe from people who know their Academy players far better than I do. Their Coach is John Peacock who is the FA's Head Coach and the highest qualified coach operating outside the national team set up and the U21 squad. He specialises in youth coaching and coach education and has been on the FA Staff since 2002. In my opinion, he is just the type of specialist coach we need in charge of such a vital age group and the one from which many players might possibly emerge to play for the full England team when the World Cup is held in 2018....................the one that this country is pinning it's hopes on being awarded the honour of staging; and thus there will be a huge pressure on these young men both to develope and deliver the ultimate prize in World football.
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Post by merse on Jul 27, 2010 17:09:30 GMT
Capello's absence could mean a lot of things (I'm not sure if Del Bosque was there either), but its not as if any of the Under-19's are knocking on the door for Brazil 2014 consideration, are they? Well maybe not, but seeing as the Spanish team at U19 level are playing in exactly the same way as the full national team already. I would have thought it paramount that the National coach is trying to instill exactly that discipline in the England set up as in my opinion it is so important that all progressing players feel 100% at home as they rise up through the age groups. But then OUR full national team aren't playing in anything near the exalted levels required to be World Champions are they? Spain's World Cup winning squad incidentally contained no less than 9 players who had graduated from Barcelona's Academy and this current U19 squad, has 7; and as I pointed out before they come ready accomplished in the very highest standards of the game when they are utilised in the nations squads. I note Brazil's squad for their first game under their new National Coach contains just four of the players that returned from the South African World Cup where they incurred the wrath of a nation brought up on "The Beautiful Game"Will Capello be so swingeing in his cuts from OUR rubbish squad? Well if he wants to be he needs to maximise his knowledge of our younger age groups doesn't he!
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Post by merse on Jul 27, 2010 18:50:49 GMT
but its not as if any of the Under-19's are knocking on the door for Brazil 2014 consideration, are they? Well maybe not, but seeing as the Spanish team at U19 level are playing in exactly the same way as the full national team already. I would have thought it paramount that the National coach is trying to instill exactly that discipline in the England set up Half of the German team that obliterated England in the recent World Cup represented their country in winning the U17, U19, and U21 European titles. According to Sir Trevor Brooking, England's current group of U'17s are the first ones coming through where all the outfield players are competent at playing proper possession football. "We've had some good groups before " he says, "but too often in the past, the good teams have been able to identify the weak links in our team, the players who will play the long ball or just give it away under pressure. This group has quality in depth".What beggars belief is that Brooking has been the FA's development chief and been banging this particular drum for seven years.....................seven years of clubs dragging their heels and putting obstructions in the way of the revolution needed in our game. Probably the most significant change comes THIS week when the Premiership clubs have to nominate their 25 strong squads containing the pre-required one third of "home produced players" and only being able to add to those squads from amongst players aged under 21 years old. Now the likes of Liverpool, with their ridiculous 90% overseas players; will find out the hard way how they should have been conducting their affairs. Now clubs like Chelsea and Manchester City will sit back and realise just how many unnecessary overseas signings they have made as they will be forced to omit them from their squads and pay their big fat salaries for doing precisely what so many at the top table of our national game have been doing for so long ~ sitting on their arses!
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Post by Rags on Jul 28, 2010 6:46:22 GMT
...one of the most remarkable is 16 year old Saido Berahino (WBA) who arrived in this country as a refugee with his mother seeking political asylum from Burundi just five years ago unable to speak English ~ French being his first language. That's really going to confound the Daily Mail readership in 2018 as different "benefit-scrounging" foreigners get berated on the front page and lauded on the back page...
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Post by Rags on Jul 28, 2010 7:18:19 GMT
What beggars belief is that Brooking has been the FA's development chief and been banging this particular drum for seven years.....................seven years of clubs dragging their heels and putting obstructions in the way of the revolution needed in our game. At roughly the same time as the England national team leave the World Cup as the laughing stock of world football (although much of that is due to our self-delusion on how great we are rather than the lack of quality of our football), it is the comments of a great player from a rival nation (Der Kaiser) that get the majority of the nation's media up in arms, and not the FA/Premier League's refusal to listen to a great player of our own (Sir Trev) on the deficiencies in our game and why England won't challenge for the World Cup for the foreseeable future. While we as a society continue to trot out Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson, Andy Gray and Jamie Redknapp as our chosen advisors on the state of our domestic football we will continue to arrive in foreign countries in the summer of every two years and surprise ourselves at how much better than us all the other teams are. We'll be lucky to get out of the group stages in Brazil 2014 (TM) and all the same reasons and solutions will be trotted out then as have been over the past few weeks. The problem is the FA's attitude to coaching and the Premiership's need to win at all costs; but the solution is the country's media. Only when MotD and Sky Sports combine to criticise the standard of coaching and performances at the top level on a weekly basis will anything be done about it. Because only when change happens at the top will the benefits to the national side be realised: otherwise the best young under-11's of 2010 will face a choice of hoofing the ball into the final third as often as possible (a la Noel Blake) and play 30 Prem games each season + Internationals + lucrative marketing contracts, or be loaned out to a Championship team for failing to follow the manager's instructions. I know I'm biased because I found myself at Upton Park a lot when I first came to London in the early 80's, but the priorities of our footballing society are neatly summed up for me when I see Kevin Keegan as an expert World Cup pundit on a national TV network and Trevor Brooking's calls for progressive change consistently ignored. New squad restrictions, new national manager called for, new players called for, new tactics to consider. Plus ca change...
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Post by merse on Jul 28, 2010 7:28:01 GMT
That's really going to confound the Daily Mail readership in 2018 as different benefit-scrounging foreigners get berated on the front page and lauded on the back page... Just tell 'em Burundi is on Exmoor!
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Post by stefano on Jul 28, 2010 7:46:10 GMT
What beggars belief is that Brooking has been the FA's development chief and been banging this particular drum for seven years.....................seven years of clubs dragging their heels and putting obstructions in the way of the revolution needed in our game. We'll be lucky to get out of the group stages in Brazil 2014...... ... I'd say that is quite ambitious. I think we'll be lucky to qualify and actually be playing in Brazil 2014!
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Post by merse on Jul 28, 2010 7:51:49 GMT
..............it is the comments of a great player from a rival nation (Der Kaiser) that get the majority of the nation's media up in arms, and not the FA/Premier League's refusal to listen to a great player of our own (Sir Trev) on the deficiencies in our game and why England won't challenge for the World Cup for the foreseeable future.
While we as a society continue to trot out Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson, Andy Gray and Jamie Redknapp as our chosen advisors on the state of our domestic football.............. Not only in the media. I seem to remember those comments of a man who captained and managed his country to great success, was president (Bayern Munich:1994-2009) of one of the world's most prestigious clubs ~ a club where his vast knowledge is practically used on a daily basis ~ and is in effect, the "German Bobby Moore"; caused more comment (and negative comment too) on this forum than that from any other public figure during South Africa 2010................but then, no-one wanted to listen to Bobby Moore either did they? Look how much more Germany has got out of a genius in it's midst than the English ever have. Could you imagine Franz Beckenbauer having to scrap around the German eqivalent of Oxford City or Southend United to impart his knowledge? It's the same right through German football, looking at Bayern again, the current president is Uli Hoeness who was previously General Manager of the club from1979, the Chairman is Karl-Heinze Rumenigge ~ great club men to a tee, but also fiercely patriotic and with a wealth of international football between them. I don't know who professes to be the nation's football brain on German telly these days, but Hansen, Lawrenson, Gray and Redknapp don't possess a thimble full of managerial experience between them and in Andy Gray's case; he ran a mile from the managerial game almost as soon as he had started out in it in search of easier pickings making a cartoon character out of himself with his glib, throw away nonsense.
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