U18 Players 2022/23

[liamoo11]

The under 18 leagues start today in England. A lot less lads now because of Brexit involved than a few years ago.

Nice to see trent start straight away for Liverpool. Interesting to see Jason Koumas s son has scored a few for Liverpool today and dock who played for Celtic first team last season also scored today

Leeds have 4 lads - andreucci and Douglas scored today mcgrath and Coleman also involved

Tottenham have Bloxham involved and grante playing for crystal palace

[tetsujin1979]

You sure about Douglas? All I could find was one post on twitter that he was eligible. Nothing about actually switching international allegiance, and no mention of a call up on fai,ie

[tetsujin1979]

Just noticed former underage player Gerard Nash was appointed U18 coach at Villa during the summer.
https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2022/june/15/Villa-appoint-three-Academy-coaches-/

Tony Carss will join as Under-23 Senior Professional Development Phase Coach, Gerrard Nash will become Lead Under-18 Professional Development Phase Coach and Adem Atay who will take up the role of Under-18 Professional Development Coach.
Nash has most recently been working with the FA of Ireland as their High Performance Coach and previously worked at Ipswich Town as both Under-18 Lead Professional Development Phase Coach and Under-23 Senior Professional Development Phase Coach.

[liamoo11]

Just noticed former underage player Gerard Nash was appointed U18 coach at Villa during the summer.
https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2022/june/15/Villa-appoint-three-Academy-coaches-/
Fair play to him he was good underage really struggled with injuries

[liamoo11]

Nice to see trent with 2 today so far for liverpool18s against man utd

[tetsujin1979]

First goal is on Liverpool's Twitter
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[tetsujin1979]

Liverpool's Trent Kone Doherty, AC Milan's Cathal Heffernan, Inter's Kevin Zefi, and Celtic's Rocco Vata and Ben Quinn all named in their respective club's squad for this season's UEFA Youth League, as well as the Shamrock Rovers team
All squads and players available here


https://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/clubs/

Vata is actually listed as Scottish, but that's surely a mistake?

[JR89]

Good chance they looked at where some players were born and listed them as that nationality. They've Celtics Josh Clarke as English even though he plays for Northern Ireland and has been involved with the senior squad.

[tetsujin1979]

Andreucci named in Scotland's U19 squad for a tournament in Slovenia
https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/news/billy-stark-selects-under-19-squad-for-slovenia-nations-cup/?rid=13925

[tetsujin1979]

Liverpool's Trent Kone Doherty, AC Milan's Cathal Heffernan, Inter's Kevin Zefi, and Celtic's Rocco Vata and Ben Quinn all named in their respective club's squad for this season's UEFA Youth League, as well as the Shamrock Rovers team
All squads and players available here


https://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/clubs/

Vata is actually listed as Scottish, but that's surely a mistake?

Missed Bloxham at Spurs on this list as well, his nationality is listed as English on uefa.com

Celtic V Real Madrid in the Youth League will be streamed on uefa.tv today, and Inter V Bayern will be streamed tomorrow
https://www.uefa.tv/competition/UYL

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Heffernan not named in the AC Milan team against Salzburg; Vata starts for Celtic against Real, Quinn on the bench.
Josh Clarke named among the substitutes as well - he played for the England U17s in March 2021, then our U18s the following August, before switching to Northern Ireland, and has played for their U19s and been named as a substitute for the senior team

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[tetsujin1979]

Trent Kone Doherty starting for Liverpool's U18s against Napoli at 1, it's on BT Sport, and there's a stream on uefa.tv
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[liamoo11]

Trent scored again today against man city for Liverpool 18s. Also started in victory over ajax for the 19s during the week. It's been a very impressive start to his time at liverpool

[tetsujin1979]

Zefi named on the bench for Inter's U19s against Barcelona
Live stream on uefa.tv
https://www.uefa.tv/match/live/223327/2035822/

[liamoo11]

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-stoke-exciting-young-winger-25330454 2 more yesterday for trent and scored last week as well. Has settled really well there. Hard to know why he is not in the 17s squad this week

[JR89]

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-stoke-exciting-young-winger-25330454 2 more yesterday for trent and scored last week as well. Has settled really well there. Hard to know why he is not in the 17s squad this week

Cause Liverpool probably didn't want to release him.

[tetsujin1979]

Can the club refuse a call up for competitive games?

[JR89]

Spurs didn't release Parrott for the U17 euros finals when we hosted them three years ago. It's not an official fifa international window I believe. Similar that summer we missed a rake of players for the U19s because clubs wanted them around for pre season.

https://www.the42.ie/tottenham-starlet-one-of-several-high-profile-players-absent-from-ireland-euros-squad-4721138-Jul2019/

"However, the fact that the tournament does not take place during an official Fifa international window means clubs ultimately have the final say as to whether players can travel and in many instances, they have insisted the individuals in question stay at home for pre-season training.

Mohan said 11 players in total were unavailable, including many who helped Ireland qualify so convincingly.

Among the notable absentees from the squad are Nathan Collins (Stoke), Tom Gaston (Bordeaux), Aaron Bolger (Cardiff), Gavin Bazunu (Man City), Conor Coventry (West Ham), Troy Parrott (Tottenham), Richie O?Farrell (UCD), Luca Connell (Celtic), Will Ferry (Southampton), Will Smallbone (Southampton), Adam Idah (Norwich), Michael Obafemi (Southampton), Aaron Connolly (Brighton), Jordan Doherty (Sheffield United), Jason Knight (Derby) and Glen McAuley (Unattached after leaving Liverpool)."

[tetsujin1979]

Kone-Doherty starting in midfield for Liverpool against Ajax in the UEFA Youth League at three
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Live stream on uefa.tv: https://www.uefa.tv/match/live/227435/2035850

[tetsujin1979]

Elsewhere in the UEFA Youth League today, Aaron Maguire was in goals for Spurs' U19s 2-1 loss to Sporting Lisbon, and Inter's Kevin Zefi came off the bench for the last ten minutes against Viktoria PLzen, and was booked

[elatedscum]

Kone-Doherty starting in midfield for Liverpool against Ajax in the UEFA Youth League at three
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Live stream on uefa.tv: https://www.uefa.tv/match/live/227435/2035850

scores a screamer from 40 centimetres out. he's playing on the left wing against a player who's much more physically developed than he is, struggling a bit, despite the goal.

[tetsujin1979]

scores a screamer from 40 centimetres out. he's playing on the left wing against a player who's much more physically developed than he is, struggling a bit, despite the goal.
Thought it was going to be disallowed for offside, but the run to the back post was well timed

[tetsujin1979]

Kevin Zefi starting for Inter's U18s against Bayern at three
Live stream here: https://watch.recast.tv/user/8PBZx

[samhaydenjr]

As noted by other posters, Brexit has definitely made this thread a bit of a ghost town, with the exploits of Trent Kone-Doherty being the main focus of attention (11 goals in 23 appearances in all comps, in case you're wondering.

However, there is still scope for English clubs to bring in players who turn eighteen after the start of the season as they still qualify for U18s. This appears to have been the plan for Franco Umeh-Chibueze, who was brought over from Cork City by Crystal Palace recently and in his second game scored twice on Tuesday: https://www.premierleague.com/match/79312/u18-premier-league/2022-23/arsenal-u18-v-palace-u18