Sentences with phrase «as youth players»

Huddlestone spent time with both Nottingham Forest and Derby County as a youth player, before moving to Spurs in 2005.

Ozyakup is no stranger to English football having played for Arsenal as a youth player before joining Besiktas for # 350,000 in 2012.

As perviously noted, Rafinha struggled at times at Barcelona despite being at the La Liga club since 2006 as a youth player.

Bentley started his career as a youth player at Arsenal, and for a while was thought of as one of the club's most exciting prospects, though he failed to break into the club's first team at the time due to vast competition for places from the likes of world class players such as Dennis Bergkamp, Robert Pires and Freddie Ljungberg.

In a report from the Scottish Sun the comments have emerged from Ferguson who compares the young United midfielder to Beckham due to his stature as a youth player.

Having spent time as a youth player at Manchester United, he failed to find his feet at Old Trafford but his form this season has seemingly started to attract attention again.

Currently in his third season with Borussia Dortmund, the 25 - year - old began his career as a youth player at Dortmund but made his name playing for Rot Weiss Ahlen in Germany's regional leagues before being snapped up by Borussia Monchengladbach.

Our very own little Spanish playmaker Santi Cazorla has revealed to Arsenal fans that he has always intended to go back to his original club Real Oviedo, who were his local club as a youth player.

Born in Hebburn, County Durham, George joined Arsenal as a youth player in August 1961.

Ozil was part of the Bundesliga side academy as a youth player and registered 39 appearances for the club before leaving for Werder Bremen.

The Ivorian midfielder took part in trials at Arsenal as a youth player, only to be denied a work permit.

Lionel Messi struggled with the physical demands of football during his days as a youth player.

However, it was as a youth player at Queens Park Rangers in 2010 that he...

After having started out his career with Barcelona in 2009 as a youth player, he made a couple of appearances for the B team at the Catalan club.

Not exact matches

The Warriors are currently the favorite to win the NBA title, and given their youth — from the players to Kerr as a rookie head coach — they could conceivably get better in the coming years.

As a youth soccer player, I think I had really good coaches, really good role models that taught me a lot about professionalism and taking care of myself and I feel like I did that early on.

There are several key players and extreme positions within the movement and the government: Prime Minister Harper, Chief Teresa Spence as an icon of the Idle No More young revolutionaries, drum circles, elders, statesmen, chiefs, passionate youth, and also the brilliant Shawn Atleo as head of the Assembly of First Nations.

Good news for Arsenal's future and with the current team including such amazing players as Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez and some real promise in the youth system, who is to say how bright that future will be?

Some even suggested that we start with youth players such as the 17 year old Frenchman.

I love the fact that Arsenal is a family orientated club where no matter what happens everyone will get a fair chance to prove themselves, be it because of a loss of form or recovery from long term injury or even when trying to break into the 1st team from the youth setup However I feel that new high profile signings such as Cech, Reus, (you add who you like) would lift the moral of the entire team and give many players the confidence in their teammates that is needed when going into big games.

Wilshere has that «local boy» thing going for him (since Arsenal has not really been producing anything exceptional as players) and Wenger obviously rely on him a lot since he is one of his «findings» (youth disastrous policy)...

Jesse Lingard has emerged as an important player for United over the last two seasons, and as one of the few products of the youth academy still in the side he represents a lot for the Old Trafford side.

As for Arteta, lets be honest here, he is way past it, surely it is time to give the captains armband to someone else and give his seat on the bench to one of the youth players with potential.

With transfer fees continually on the rise and this summer seeing some crazy prices paid for players, such as the signing of rumoured Arsenal transfer target Gonzalo Higuain by Italian champions Juventus and the crazy money set to be shelled out by Manchester United for their former youth star Paul Pogba, is this why Arsenal have made just one big transfer so far?

The Dons Youth Football Academy will be staffed by current Acalanes High School Football coaches as well as a full complement of experienced high school and college players and a certified trainer.

His athletic playing and coaching experience includes: Coached BAVC boys and girls club teams including 18s (boys and girls), 16s (boys and girls), 15s (girls), and 13s (girls) Current De La Salle Junior Varsity Coach Former Clayton Valley High Girls Varsity Head and Assistant Coach Former Las Lomas High Varsity Assistant Coach Former St. Francis CYO and Walnut Creek Youth Basketball Coach Former AA Rated Sand & Grass Doubles Division I Football and Basketball Player (University of Maine) All - State High School Football Player (Maine) Rich brings a broad perspective on youth athletics as a club director, coach, high school and college athlete, and a father of a high school and college athYouth Basketball Coach Former AA Rated Sand & Grass Doubles Division I Football and Basketball Player (University of Maine) All - State High School Football Player (Maine) Rich brings a broad perspective on youth athletics as a club director, coach, high school and college athlete, and a father of a high school and college athyouth athletics as a club director, coach, high school and college athlete, and a father of a high school and college athlete.

She umpires, coaches and works in the snack bar to support the youth program she once enjoyed as a player.

Form can allow for competition and it wouldn't be so deep that Nelson is totally forced out, we would have to rely on him for things like the League Cup or early rounds of FA cup as well as injuries and a reminder to the star players that there is a hungry youth snapping at their heels for gametime.

So even if Mertesacker is not expected to play as often as he would like, should we give him a one - year extension just for his ability to lead the squad and help teach our youth players?

Some may argue that he bought more than a handful of flops but a lot of the players were bought as promising youth.

This comes after a campaign in which he played 36 times in Serie A alone, and as a result, the player is feeling neglected at the club where he came through the youth academy.

The latest exciting talent to be coming through Barcelona's La Masia production line, Gerard Deufoleu has been a prolific goal scorer at youth level, excelling in Barca's B team for the last three seasons, as well as for Spain at Under - 16 through to Under - 21 level, earning himself the accolade of UEFA Under - 19 Golden Player in 2012.

The Barca youth player, who plays as a defensive midfielder, has established himself as a key figure in a Barca side featuring world class players such as Xavi, Iniesta and Lionel Messi.

It is amazing that Arsenal have let such a promising (and prolific) young striker as Benik Afobe be sold this season, and could be construed as very strange behaviour from Arsene Wenger, considering that the Frenchman sets high store on bringing hot young English players through the youth system.

When you consider we also have josh vickers, who can play u21 and u18 (as an overage player) plus Ryan huddart and hugo keto who can play champions youth league and u18, we may as well loan out at least 2 keepers if not 3, but only till January so that we can call back if required.

In turn, it will now hopefully be a crucial experience as far as the England players are concerned, as they'll hope to take this success with them through the youth levels and ultimately deliver for the senior side further down the line.

We had a LOT of gaps appear in our team, anyone with a head on their shoulders would know it wasn't going to be this year where we win the EPL as we needed close to a squad to get enough quality in depth without relying on unproven youth acadamy players.

They will still have to buy players wisely, have good youth policy and a good manager, but lots of money will be needed as well.

However, as Everton fans will already know, keeping hold of their best players that have come through the youth system isn't always an easy task, and Stones, at some point, will likely make his own exit from Goodison Park.

Next season we will see more youth players in the squad, So wenger won't be looking to spend... as per usual!?

do we really have the time to buy a top player an then convert them?why not buy a ready made player?i don't see the relevance of mentioning Arteta since he was once a pivot at Barca as a youth and the fact he hasn't really been very successful converting to DM

o'connor - very good player just needs the playing time on loan to make the next step up to first team peleguezo - very highly though of by wenger and will be stepping up to the first team squad as a back up to chambers or mert, has the best chance for a youth defender break through into first team could follow bellerin route.

However if Wenger is going to identify a youth player or two that he wants to bring in, then I see no reason as to why Mbappe shouldn't be on the Frenchman's transfer wish list.

As a result players like Podolski, Campbel, Rosicky and I am sure some of the youth academy players are joining the ranks of the disgruntled 1st team players who have seen enough of Wenger's ineptness in every aspect of coaching the team.

Hopefully he will give ajayi the nod as I think we might need another Cb whilst all the other outfield players, bar galindo can play in the youth champions league

The youth setup of every Premier League club is independently assessed as part of the Elite Player Performance Plan.

Discounting players such as Arteta, who are likely leaving on a free, this is a list of what I consider the remaining deadwood and the length of time since signing with us or with the youth, their debuts:

We have in our possession one of the most over rated (especially over rated as he might the worse player in the squad first team and youth included... A total liability) and overpaid football player in the history of Arsenal football club: Theo Walcott.

Steve bould is okay but abit of DB10 around the Emirates would be an inspiration for our players as well as having Henry as striking coach and as hes doing now, coaching the youth teams.

Let's get real here.It is very unlikely that ANY professional player will ever say anything derogatory about a teammate that has just left the club.If Jack had said about Coq - «Grew up playing with him in the Youth Team and have fond memories of a player they though he had very limited ability he always gave his all.Very surprised and disappointed the club never invested in a World Class defensive midfielder that we have quite obviously been lacking for a number of seasons and would no doubt have improved the defensive weakness we have shown over a number of seasons» we would have echoed his thoughts entirely.If he had said about Theo - «A player who should have been so much better than he ended up being.He had everything needed to be a prolific player for our club but I can understand the fans frustrations with his continued lack - lustre performances and total lack of a football brain.I think this is best explained by the managers preference to play a player of such limited ability as Alex Iwobi in front of Theo pretty much says it all» we again would have all nodded our agreement.Although Jack never mentioned Alexis Sanchez I would imagine something along the lines of «If the Manager had not persisted with players with such limited ability such as Francis and Theo and instead bought the world class players needed into the club then Sanchez would still most likely be here.The fans must wonder what the hell goes on at the club as they pay fortunes for the privalage of following our club but it seems the millions generated ends up purchasing a new Texas Ranch for the Owner or in a yearly renumeration of # 9million pounds to our manager».