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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostLewis Holtby is eligible as his father is from Liverpool but decided to play internationally for Germany as that is where he was born, brought up and lives (also his mother is German.) Aaron Hunt who plays for Bremen has a German father and British mother but also made the same decision whereas Owen Hargreaves who was born in Canada to British parents decided to play for England rather than Canada or Wales. One of the funnier stories concerns Sean Dundee who was a South African who played in Germany and wanted to play for Germany so he took German citizenship. As soon as that came through he got called up for national service and had to do it, while he was doing it his girlfriend buggered of with someone else as she never saw him and after finishing it his career took a nosedive.
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Originally posted by Pogle View PostI haven't read all the above, but doesn't this indicate that team managers are being lazy and are just buying in talent instead of investing in home grown talent?
At the end of the day the homegrown talent is not good enough.
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Originally posted by Pogle View PostI haven't read all the above, but doesn't this indicate that team managers are being lazy and are just buying in talent instead of investing in home grown talent?
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I haven't read all the above, but doesn't this indicate that team managers are being lazy and are just buying in talent instead of investing in home grown talent?
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Originally posted by TheBigD View PostI think the current rule in England is that players need to have had 5 years schooling here before the age of 18 to be eligible to play four our national team.
It means that all the fuss about the Man Utd player (and Lewis Holtby), is a watse of time as their not eligible anyway.
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostThere are players in the Bundesliga who have British parents and are eligible to play for England, in fact one now plays for Tottenham: Lewis Holtby, but they decided not to and instead are picked for the German national team, why? They'll quite happily play in the PL but not for England...
It means that all the fuss about the Man Utd player (and Lewis Holtby), is a watse of time as their not eligible anyway.
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostOh but it is and the FA have opened their new training school, St. Georges but its a little bit late. The Germans saw that their national team were doing absolutely tulip a few years back and decided to invest in the youth and although they may not have won much they still have a formidable team and the Bundesliga clubs are a force to be reckoned with. However you talk about other sports here but where do these people train? Many of them live and train abroad because the UK either does not have the facilities, coaches, etc. or does not invest in the sport even though the Olympics was meant to be the kickstart to investment in sport, the government is still cutting back in that area. When I was at school we had football and rugby pitches, a cricket pitch, a full complement of athletic facilites, tennis courts, netball, 2 indoor gyms, etc. When I went back to look at my old school they only had one football pitch and one gym, all the outside facilites were now housing. That is where the problem lies, no investment in youth...
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostGiven that British sportspeople have reached the top in athletics, road and track cycling, rugby union, cricket, gymnastics, rowing, equestrian, tennis, boxing etc etc etc, I wonder whether football in Britain is really attracting the most talented young sportspeople.
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Originally posted by minestrone View Postseriously, nobody really gives a flying fook about cycling
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I suppose it depends what is classed as English/British. Would John Barnes, Owen Hargreave be classed as british ?
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostGiven that British sportspeople have reached the top in athletics, road and track cycling, rugby union, cricket, gymnastics, rowing, equestrian, tennis, boxing etc etc etc, I wonder whether football in Britain is really attracting the most talented young sportspeople.
seriously, nobody really gives a flying fook about cycling
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostThere are players in the Bundesliga who have British parents and are eligible to play for England, in fact one now plays for Tottenham: Lewis Holtby, but they decided not to and instead are picked for the German national team, why? They'll quite happily play in the PL but not for England...
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Originally posted by FiveTimes View PostOr that maybe football should recruit talent from overseas like the cycling, cricket, rugby ?
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Originally posted by FiveTimes View PostOr that maybe football should recruit talent from overseas like the cycling, cricket, rugby ?
It's not as if there's a shortage of talent in Britain; OK, I'm not saying that a natural long distance runner could be a great footballer, but there are common factors to success in all ball sports, like hand and foot to eye coordination, peripheral vision, spatial awareness, judgment of speed and distance, and then common aspects in any athletic sport like speed, endurance, 'trainability' and resistance to injury; there's obviously no shortage of those qualities among English young people as so many sports succeed in getting the best out of them; why doesn't football do that?
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