ICYMI: How England's U19s Won Euros Again, Scouting 'Future Stars' & Protecting Foden
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The Athletic
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🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Irving is joined by The Athletic's England correspondent Jack Pitt-Brooke and football news reporter Dan Sheldon, to reflect on England's U19 Euro's win... for the second time in just five years! So, what's the secret to all their recent success at youth level, who is head coach Ian Foster, how did both Mason Mount and Steve Holland play a vital part and have we got any better at protecting and nurturing young English talent?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.9 | Welcome to the Athletic. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. I'm Ian Irving. |
| 0:19.0 | You might have missed it this weekend |
| 0:20.2 | amidst the swirl of |
| 0:21.1 | transfer speculation, but England's under 19s were crowned European champions again for the |
| 0:26.7 | second time in just five years. And that's going to be the focus of today's podcast. We're joined |
| 0:31.8 | by the Athletics newly appointed Manchester football news reporter Dan Sheldon, who covered the |
| 0:36.7 | Young Lions in Slovakia |
| 0:38.0 | plus Jack Pittbrook, our England correspondent, joins us again |
| 0:41.2 | as we celebrate the team's success, |
| 0:43.3 | shine a light on some of the stars of the tournament, |
| 0:45.8 | as well as debating whether Phil Foden's example |
| 0:48.2 | will help ease pressure and expectation on these players. |
| 0:52.2 | And have we got too used to being quite good? |
| 0:59.8 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:01.0 | I mean, a few years ago it was really, really special that England had sides who could |
| 1:05.4 | be this successful at youth level. |
| 1:07.5 | Have we become a bit more used to it? |
| 1:09.2 | And is that maybe why we've not seen as much |
| 1:11.6 | coverage for this as in previous successes? I think so, yeah. I remember there was a lot of coverage. |
| 1:18.1 | The famous 2017 year when England won the under 17 World Cup in India. They won the Euro |
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