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Homework – Football’s youth academies and defining a new measure of success
Sarthak Kumar defines the new standards youth academies should be held by, and why those standards are the true indication of success.
Tag: youth development
Youth development in football
Caleb Cousens discusses the unwillingness of some major clubs to promote from within, despite having talent right on their doorstep.
Back to basics for Russian football
Alan Moore believes that Russian football needs to take a few steps back to go forward.
English youth development – success?
Seth Burkett talks grassroots and mixes in some of his own experiences.
The Basque Connection
Buster Stonham investigates the historic link between English football and Athletic Bilbao, then looks at what the Premier League can learn from the Basque club.
The Frenchman of Dar as-sina’ah
Pavan Mano charts the fictional narrative of Dar as-sina’ah – a company that had it all, and then went on to lose it all; or, a metaphorical account of one football club’s tumble from the top.
A European footballing revolution in Singapore
Pavan Mano discusses football prosperity in one of South-east Asia’s most developed nations, thanks to years of forward-planning.