How to develop footballers in the 21st century
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Stephen Ganavas and Llew Davies to explore what youth development looks like in the 21st Century and to give some examples of exciting up-and-coming talents in various age groups.
What is the purpose of youth development?
We’re seeing teams letting promising youngsters go. How bad is this for the development of players?
What is Scouted Football?
Most exciting players: U-17, U-19, U-21, U-23?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome to the Tiva Football podcast. I am John McKenzie and I am usually |
| 0:13.1 | joined by my good friend and producer Mike Zimmerman but Mike is not with us today but |
| 0:17.8 | that does not mean that we don't have a fantastic episode for you guys today |
| 0:21.9 | because today I am joined by the guys from scouted football Stephen Gannivas and Cleo Davis |
| 0:28.1 | as well. And boy, do we have a lot to talk about because we're talking all about youth development, |
| 0:33.7 | how development pathways have changed across the last decades or so and what clubs are doing better |
| 0:38.3 | and worse nowadays. So hopefully by the end of the episode, you'll have a much better sense |
| 0:42.7 | of what to expect from a club's youth development pathway. And of course, we couldn't have the boys |
| 0:48.5 | from scouted on without catching up on the latest Wonder Kids. And so the very end of this episode, |
| 0:53.6 | we go through the best players |
| 0:54.7 | in four different age categories so make sure you stay right till the end and you'll catch |
| 0:59.3 | all of that as well but as always it's not me that you want to be hearing right now you |
| 1:03.8 | want to be hearing the boys from scouted football so let's get right into it. |
| 1:19.6 | So Stephen, Hugh, great to have you on the show. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm really excited about this show today because I've got lots of thoughts. |
| 1:24.6 | Everyone has lots of thoughts about youth football. |
| 1:27.7 | A part of the reason I wanted to record an episode with you guys is because there was a tweet flying around on Twitter which just read homegrown in scare quotes with a |
| 1:33.9 | picture of Liverpool's youngsters holding the Carabal Cup and it showed you the ages at which |
| 1:38.9 | the players join the club and the clubs they joined from with the implication presumably being that |
| 1:43.3 | a player isn't properly |
| 1:44.2 | homegrown unless they are conceived in the centre circle at Anfield. But it got me thinking a lot |
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