Sentences with phrase «academy footballers even»

The odds are stacked against him — a tiny fraction of academy footballers even have a pro career in the first place, let alone a Premier League career, and unlike most of them, there's only one position a goalkeeper can play in — but on a purely superficial level it's just as pointless writing him off as it is predicting stardom.

Not exact matches

But as a kid, family visits to West Point for college football games just an hour's drive away had convinced him that the Academy was the only fit for him — even though he didn't come from a family with a deep military background.

-- Does not set up a world class football academy, even after managing the club for over twenty years.

Sometime I feel the stature of a elite football club can / will have negative affect on young talent, even playing at the academy level young players are stars at their local level and will attract negative influences... and at such a young age people do tend to gravitates to those influences..

But I'm sure I speak for the entire brigade when I say that I was shocked and dismayed that a fine magazine such as yours would even suggest, as you did at the end of your preview of the U.S. Military Academy's football season (Sept. 9), that no one cares about the outcome of our traditional game.

What is even more sad is so few kids come through the youth academies because players arrive from all over the world desperate to get their hands, not on the iconic red and white jersey, but the salary that comes with being a pro footballer in the prem.

Hewlett, who operates out of The Range as the Director of Player Development for the National Football Academies (NFA), has a pretty impressive list of successful pupils that even goes back to before the native Australian moved to the East Bay from Florida a little over four years ago.

It's boss spending so much time at Anfield but it's even better when I get to learn more about «The Liverpool Way» from all of the amazing LFC International Football Academy coaches, see you soon lads.

There would be a director of football, an academy director, and maybe even some other specialists with more grandiose titles such as «head of philosophy» or some other role, as is the case at some teams in the Footballfootball, an academy director, and maybe even some other specialists with more grandiose titles such as «head of philosophy» or some other role, as is the case at some teams in the FootballFootball League.

This is a player that appeared to have a bright future as the Italian footballer was able to receive enough recognition during his time spent at the youth academy of Manchester United which allowed him to get playing time with the first - team of the Premier League despite only being 18 years old and actually managing to make an impact in the matches that he did get time on the pitch, even though he was only a youngster.