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[D-MiZe]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Brooking and Pea**** are the future of our national team. They have our u17 team playing like the Spaniards do and our recent success proves it.

[D-MiZe]

Thing is to, its not the FA that have improved these kids either, its the clubs who has nurtured them through their youth set up.

Seriously, it's down to the FA. Brooking and Pea**** in particular, they've revolutionised our younger teams, changed the playstyle up and put emphasis on passing/skill rather than physical attributes.

Obviously the clubs do play a big part, but I'd give Pea**** & Brooking more of the credit.

[Dynamite Kid]

Seriously, it's down to the FA. Brooking and Pea**** in particular, they've revolutionised our younger teams, changed the playstyle up and put emphasis on passing/skill rather than physical attributes.

Obviously the clubs do play a big part, but I'd give Pea**** & Brooking more of the credit.

Not according to article I read recently, who made light of how its the clubs who should be credited rather than the Fa.

[Prince Boateng]

Dj, what do you make of this.........

[D-MiZe]

Not according to article I read recently, who made light of how its the clubs who should be credited rather than the Fa.

But do the clubs have our u17's playing like Spain?

International wise, it's down to Pea**** and Brooking. We've always had talented youngsters but if they've been in a certain system at a younger age then they're more likely to play like that for the rest of their career.

Not taking anything away from the youth academies at clubs, but they don't have any influence on how our youngsters play when they represent England.

[D-MiZe]

England turn the tables on Spain with new brand of possession football

England's European Under-17 Championships victory owed much to manager John Pea****'s championing of a short-passing, tactically aware brand of football.

If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, Spanish egos should be boosted by yesterday's narrow defeat to England in the final of the European Under-17 Championships. The Football Association has used Spain as a key role model in a bid to overhaul youth development across England. With long-ball tactics now kicked firmly into the philosophical long grass, there is a greatly increased emphasis on technical excellence and possession football.

[Dynamite Kid]

But do the clubs have our u17's playing like Spain?

International wise, it's down to Pea**** and Brooking. We've always had talented youngsters but if they've been in a certain system at a younger age then they're more likely to play like that for the rest of their career.

Not taking anything away from the youth academies at clubs, but they don't have any influence on how our youngsters play when they represent England.

These kids dont start playing for England straight away, and technical ability is developed at a very early age, so I question how much its down to the England youth set up, than its down to their clubs.


To me, kids are not growing up watching good, but flawed English players, they are growing up wanting to emulate guys like Bergkamp, Henry, Ronaldo, and I think that's also had a positive influence..

[D-MiZe]

These kids dont start playing for England straight away, and technical ability is developed at a very early age, so I question how much its down to the England youth set up, than its down to their clubs.


To me, kids are not growing up watching good, but flawed English players, they are growing up wanting to emulate guys like Bergkamp, Henry, Ronaldo, and I think that's also had a positive influence..

Like the above article says, England's long ball tactics are being thrown away and the youth setups are starting to resemble Spain's free flowing, passing game. Yes, technical ability is developed early on but when they come to playing football for England they're put into a system where they cannot use their technical abilities as much as they can for their clubs.

I truly believe this is the reason players like Lampard, Gerrard and others play so well for club but not for country.

I'm sure before your Henrys and Ronaldos people tried to emulate Weah, Best, Romário, Völler etc..

[D-MiZe]

I'm off out now, but I urge you to check out Pea**** a little more Dynamite. Watch a few interviews, listen to what he's got to say. He deserves more recognition for what he's done and continuing to do, same with Brooking who, I quote;

Secured funding to implement a new philosophy at under-age levels.

Some quotes from that article I posted;

Recognising the need to raise the technical bar, Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA's director of football development and Pea****, who aside from his U-17 duties is the organisation's head of coaching, have fought fierce internal battles to raise the revenue necessary to fund the implementation of their new philosophy. The central tenets of the FA's radical new coaching programme for young English players are set out in the recently published 275-page document The Future Game but living, breathing, short-passing, tactically aware manifestation of this earnest treatise's importance arrived in Liechtenstein.

"We have great respect for the Spanish and what they've achieved in recent years," Pea**** said. "They've been the benchmark for European youth football but we think we are now starting to achieve what the Spanish team have been doing over the years. At the FA we've just published a document called The Future Game which highlights the point about the need to play possession football, to have players that are very comfortable in control of the ball and who can play out from the back.

Speak to you soon, Dynamite.

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