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British Coaches And Players Abroad

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DualityNSNO said:
That's BS.

Story time (I guess) - I've coached/managed at semi-pro youth levels and we had a lad who was a pleasure to watch, and had a good on-pitch attitude**. Scouts from all over were coming to watch him play, but he was deemed "too small" for the local semi-pro side, even though technique wise he was miles ahead many pro's - all the things were there to make a complete central midfielder, just bossed games with people 4-5 years his seniors. We kept recommending him for the first team, but they were like "no, he's too small, he'll be unable to even get in the game", while the kid was bossing all training 11-a-sides.

Skip a month or two, our youths play one of the better academies in Bulgaria, they even have U21 nationals with them. Kid gets a cameo (he was injured) and bosses everything for 10-15 minutes, in a game that our side, naturally, lost heavily. Other team impressed with him and ask us questions about him, so we really recommend him, as that team is an hour or so away - bearable travel time - and would give him a better future. Turns out, at the same game, there was a scout for a club in Italy looking at one of the U21's. Skip a week and a half, kid comes to training and goes "I'm in Italy next week, got invited for a trial", he goes there and, AFAIK, performs well. They ended up signing him around winter time (this whole thing was late summer), he's now in Verona's academy or something like that, and he told us that when he went on the trial they pretty much instantly put him in the higher age groups, cuz he was technique-wise too good for the youths (as we did).

What I mean to say here is that a player should be judged on skill and how good they are - when you want them to bulk up, make them hit the gym, or work on that a bit more; it's something that can be developed a lot easier. Coaches in Italy apparently realised that, but it saddens me that the ones even in Bulgaria are going by the "he's not enough of a grock" rules ffs.

**I'm fairly sure he's back in Bulgaria somewhere now, cuz on the field he's got that arrogant "I can do everything and make it look easy" way of doing things, but, sadly, off it he's a giant bit of a tw@...
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The Everton Bulgarian scouting network broken there. He could have been the next Osman ffs.
 

DualityNSNO said:
That's BS.

Story time (I guess) - I've coached/managed at semi-pro youth levels and we had a lad who was a pleasure to watch, and had a good on-pitch attitude**. Scouts from all over were coming to watch him play, but he was deemed "too small" for the local semi-pro side, even though technique wise he was miles ahead many pro's - all the things were there to make a complete central midfielder, just bossed games with people 4-5 years his seniors. We kept recommending him for the first team, but they were like "no, he's too small, he'll be unable to even get in the game", while the kid was bossing all training 11-a-sides.

Skip a month or two, our youths play one of the better academies in Bulgaria, they even have U21 nationals with them. Kid gets a cameo (he was injured) and bosses everything for 10-15 minutes, in a game that our side, naturally, lost heavily. Other team impressed with him and ask us questions about him, so we really recommend him, as that team is an hour or so away - bearable travel time - and would give him a better future. Turns out, at the same game, there was a scout for a club in Italy looking at one of the U21's. Skip a week and a half, kid comes to training and goes "I'm in Italy next week, got invited for a trial", he goes there and, AFAIK, performs well. They ended up signing him around winter time (this whole thing was late summer), he's now in Verona's academy or something like that, and he told us that when he went on the trial they pretty much instantly put him in the higher age groups, cuz he was technique-wise too good for the youths (as we did).

What I mean to say here is that a player should be judged on skill and how good they are - when you want them to bulk up, make them hit the gym, or work on that a bit more; it's something that can be developed a lot easier. Coaches in Italy apparently realised that, but it saddens me that the ones even in Bulgaria are going by the "he's not enough of a grock" rules ffs.

**I'm fairly sure he's back in Bulgaria somewhere now, cuz on the field he's got that arrogant "I can do everything and make it look easy" way of doing things, but, sadly, off it he's a giant bit of a tw@...
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Exactly what my point was mate.

So wrong in England.
 


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