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Topic subjectSo what national team managers CAN take credit for developing youth?
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1969940, So what national team managers CAN take credit for developing youth?
Posted by magilla vanilla, Tue May-08-12 01:29 PM
90 percent of the Spanish team was made at La Masia. The English youth are brought up by the club academies. Most of the Dutch team is a product of the Ajax academy. That's not a failing of a manager; that's called the basic reality of modern football. Where Klinsy CAN take credit, if he does it right, is in identifying the right guys to take from those academies. . . i.e. not hyping up the likes of Sacha Klejstan or Beckerman or fucking Brek Shea before they've done anything.