The Athletic. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast, I'm Ein Irving. You might have missed it this

weekend amidst a swirl of transfer speculation, but England's under 19s were

crowned European champions again for the second time in just five years.

And that's going to be the focus of today's podcast. We're joined by the

Athletics newly appointed

Manchester Football News reporter Dan Sheldon who covered the young lions in

Slovakia. Plus Japitbruck, our England correspondent joins us again as we celebrate

the team's success shine a light on some of

the stars of the tournament as well as debating whether Phil Foden's example will

help ease pressure and expectation on these players and have we got too used to being quite good.

Let's get into it. I mean a few years ago it was really really special that England had sides who could be this successful at youth level.

Have we become a bit more used to it and is that maybe why we've not seen as much coverage for this as in previous successes.

I think so, yeah.

I remember there was a lot of coverage.

The famous 2017 year when England won the under 17 World Cup in India they won the euro

under 19s in Georgia and they won the Toulon tournament as well you know this is

obviously one year before the Russia World Cup which

the England men senior team got the semi-finals of and there was a big sense at

this point of you know whether it's England DNA E triple P everything the

FAA been working on over the last 10 years was England DNA, E triple P, everything that the FAA

been working on over the last 10 years

was kind of, we were finally starting

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