Chapter 137 Youth training camp

After the most important meeting of the three giants before the season, everyone began to perform their duties.

Soriano continues to do his job, and at the same time he needs to contact warm-up opponents for the team; Low put all his energy into the training of the first team, the goal of this season is not easy to achieve, even The things that should have been done in person to collect important opponent information were completely left to the assistant to complete.

As for David, well, continue to do nothing.

Of course, the so-called unprofessional work is only in Soriano and Loew's view, David, the club's chairman, should focus more on the management of the club, rather than squatting in the youth training camp every day with a group of little kids, even if There is the future of Notts County, but not the present.

That's right, recently, David has completely transformed into a nanny in the Notts County youth academy. Every day he revolves around these little brats in the eyes of others, but in his heart, this is not the case. It is the job that makes him the happiest from the bottom of his heart, because he just likes to watch the little kids with snot and even wearing open-crotch pants gradually grow into big stars. This pride is unparalleled.

Look, this is our superstar!

Unlike many low-level clubs who don’t pay attention to youth training, David has completely put the youth training camp on the same level as the first team, which is something that many giants cannot do.

David and Notts County's newly appointed youth training director Rick Link had a lot of red-faced quarrels about the planning and construction of the youth training camp. Although he was far less professional than the other side in this regard, he had a superhuman talent after all. Sunlight.

After repeated research and reference to the mature youth training system of other clubs, Notts County's youth training camp has set up 8 echelons, each of which is roughly a configuration of 25-30 small players.

The U23 youth team is actually the reserve team in the usual sense.

If a player reaches the age of 23 and still can't get a place in the first team, then the player does not have much future at the club. The best way is to look for opportunities in other clubs or even lower leagues.

Originally, David did not intend to set up a reserve team, but this is the regulation and requirement of the FA, so David had to keep the reserve team. Of course, this must be the least valued group of players in Notts County. For example, some of the main players of the team before last season, if they did not find a suitable next home, now they can only play in the reserve league in the reserve team.

At the same time, the reserve team will also be a transition point for players who have been baptized by injuries before returning to the first team, and it is not completely useless.

Next is the U19 youth team, which is the most important stage before entering the senior team.

However, although Notts County has the configuration of the youth team at this stage, there is currently no player of the right age.

If you turn your attention to the first team, many people will find that there are many players of this age in the Notts County first team.

Sneijder, Mascherano, Mertesacker, Ribery, Iniesta, Westerman, Sarnia, Baines... can almost occupy half of the country.

U17 youth team, this age group can be said to have the fewest future stars, because in the entire team, only Gary Cahill, Ramos, Babel, Suarez and Joe Hart are five players selected by David. , the other players are all ordinary players who stayed after the open trial training of the youth academy. Maybe there is a high chance to enter the sequence of professional players in the future, but at present, it seems that there is no one who really may stay in Notts County. .

The U16 youth team, although there are still not many players appointed by David, the quality is quite high.

Messi, Ozil, Mata, Xavi Martinez, Lewandowski, Hamsik, Lallana, almost every one of them could be a top star.

In the future, when this group of players is mature enough to enter the first team, I am afraid that there will be a youth storm in Notts County that is not inferior to the current one.

The U15 youth team was originally an echelon that Rick Link thought was unnecessary, but with David's insistence, it was established.

Although the Notts County youth training camp has the best hardware conditions, compared with the maturity of many famous youth training camps, there is still a certain gap in operation, but the heart of Notts County will not stop, so David Everything is operated according to the most mature experience.

In the U15 youth team, there are also many future first-class superstars, Sturridge, Walcott, Bell, Smalling, Reus, Azpilicueta, Alba, Gibbs, Carroll, Maybe there are no top stars, but they are definitely mainstay players.

In the U13 youth team, in addition to Ramsey, Welbeck, Henderson, De Gea and Griezmann, five small players brought by David himself, in the process of trial training, they attracted two more future players. David has heard players by name - Kyle Walker and Danny Rosk.

As a matter of fact, U13 players will not have full-time professional training. They need to go to school to learn cultural knowledge, while football training takes almost all the time outside of their studies.

David is already considering this issue, building a school next to the Notts County youth academy, combining the primary and secondary schools, so that Notts County's young players can go to school nearby.

He doesn't want people to say that the players from Notts County's youth academy are all simple-minded guys with developed limbs.

Down there is the U11 youth team, uh, maybe it's more appropriate to call the children's team, because there are really real kids in here.

De Bruyne, Hazard, Wilshere, Phil Jones, Lingard, Sherwigetze, Morata, Isco, Alaba, Pogba, Verratti, Chamberlain, Ross Barkley .

This group of players is the best in the Notts County youth training camp in both quantity and quality. When this group of players matures in the future, I am afraid that it will be easy to dominate the world football.

Of course, there are also lower-level youth teams, and Notts County currently only has U9s.

Among them are Martial, Sterling, Stones, Luke Shaw, Chambers, Ali and other players brought back by David. Only they are equivalent to officially entering the echelon. Other small players are more playful. It's just for training. At this stage, it's really difficult to let a child who has just entered elementary school play football wholeheartedly.

David vowed that he would not use his future vision to poach people from other places to the youth academy of Notts County in the future, because his previous handwriting will be enough to make the whole world football admire it in the future.

The development of the Notts County Youth Academy cannot rely solely on his vision. With the buffers for the future of these players, I believe that the Notts County Youth Academy already has enough experience to make a player a first-class star.