That reminds me of an U16's Tour to Holland as a kid........well we were U16's, not sure about our opposition in one tournament. I swear the keeper in one game had his wife and kids with him!! He also had a strong tache.....
And it was Scotland they beat in the final!
This just makes it even more funny imo.
Where are they now – the Scotland Under-16 team which came within penalties of winning the World Cup – The Scottish Sun | The Scottish Sun Just looked up who made it from that Scotland squad and only 3 of them made it through to their senior team with Paul Dickov the best known of them.
A lot of the same generation would have been part of the U21 side which reached the semi finals of the 1996 Euros (qualifying for the Olympics in the process, although they didn't go to the Games), but they went absolutely nowhere at senior level.
The article mentioned certainly mentioned Figo, so that is some MO. It should be said that many junior sides who do well at international feature so many players who really don't make their mark in senior professional football, let alone play at full level. England's U17 World Cup winners: Where are they now? | Foden, Sancho Relatively speaking, the English U17 world cup winners have not done too bad, although a few never played at a high professional level.
Trent not a real injury?
Rhian Brewster haha. What a player he turned out to be
I remember in Kenya there was a massive age cheating scandal after our national team fielded a bunch of men in their 20s, who knocked out Ghana in an u17 World Cup qualifier
I was so excited when he won that world cup golden boot. Followed him closely, suffered through a bunch of his matches when he was on loan at Swansea. They were absolutely dire viewing and completely clueless with the ball when they got over the halfway line. Brewster would barely get a kick but he managed to score a few. But watching him, I couldn't shake the feeling that he might not be the world class talent I'd hoped he was which seemed strange given what he'd done at that tournament.Rhian Brewster haha. What a player he turned out to be
I briefly thought that the Beattie playing in the back line was the same as the James Beattie of Southampton fame.
He threatened to be another Owen for a while there. I always feared he wouldn't have the physicality required for the prem, he certainly didn't have the application.
For having the temerity to have his leg broken by one of their thugs iirc.
heh
The guy in the middle looking to the kid at the end next to the GK thinking "which one of us brought our son along?"
Was that 15 years?! Literally led to me fainting outside a pub in Richmond (along with a lot of beer and an empty stomach). Could never deal with broken bones facing the wrong way since I broke my elbow aged 9,