2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship/FIFA Under-17 World Cup

Team v Paraguay announced

Interesting last few minutes in Group K, Chile(down to 10 men), chasing a goal to go 2nd.
https://i.imgur.com/usNT8xU.png

Peno awarded to Canada, will push France down to 3rd...
And they missed it.
All over, Chile knocked out.

Uzbeks go 1-0 up meaning we are 1 Paraguay goal away from dropping to 2nd sorry (level with Paraguay on GD, GS, Fair Play in H2H games, but ahead in overall goal diffferne
https://i.imgur.com/wMkhroH.png

Man, that was a throw-back 5 minutes of helter-skelter football by both sides/

Umeh is after killing a great chance outside the box for Ogbonna there.

I do not like Paraguay

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Originally Posted by Kingdom

I do not like Paraguay

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There's playing a physical game, and then there's just kicking the opposition
Uzbekistan 3-0 up in the other game in the group
https://www.fifa.com/en/match-centre...0185/400020204

Group winners;


Currently
8th GW which would place us v North Korea (1st 3rd)

Potentially
9th GW which would place us v Canada (12th 2nd) (predictive, Mali and Burkina Faso should pick up points).

My guess would be we will be 9th best Group Winner after Austria beat New Zealand and then will play last 2nd place team (Canada or Mali, Mali currently because of a Red Card maybe (-7 each) but tight)

Goal Mali, Canada as it stands.

Goal New Zealand! Back to North Korea!

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Originally Posted by Razors left peg

I was listening to a podcast yesterday where they were saying that Man Utd are monitoring 10 players at this u17 World Cup. They have already signed the Columbian Captain Cristian Orozco. I wonder if any Irish lads are on the radar?

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Apparently Man Utd have been keeping tabs on Noonan and Vinnie Leonard

https://www.unitedinfocus.com/transf...medium=twitter

Ireland u17s at the world cup, a wildly expanded version. I managed to watch the 2nd half of their third group game v Paraguay, where they looked a distinct class above the diving prone unfit gasping Paraguayans. Alas there was no winning goal forthcoming which meant they just missed out on being drawn against a 3rd place team and got Canada in the last 32. That's right, the last 32 at an underage world cup final tournament:rolleyes:


Btw, clubs cannot refuse to release youth players for World/Euro competitive games.

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Originally Posted by geysir

Ireland u17s at the world cup, a wildly expanded version. I managed to watch the 2nd half of their third group game v Paraguay, where they looked a distinct class above the diving prone unfit gasping Paraguayans. Alas there was no winning goal forthcoming which meant they just missed out on being drawn against a 3rd place team and got Canada in the last 32. That's right, the last 32 at an underage world cup final tournament:rolleyes:


Btw, clubs cannot refuse to release youth players for World/Euro competitive games.

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Only if the games are in an international window. Bayern refused to release Lennart Karl, even though he played in the U17 European championships in May
When we played in the U19 Championships in 2019, there was a load of players unavailable because the tournament was held in July and they were in preseason training with their clubs
https://foot.ie/threads/236671-2019-...=1#post2006381

Grady McDonnell should be able to give good insight into Canada presumably he has played with against most of them

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Only if the games are in an international window. Bayern refused to release Lennart Karl, even though he played in the U17 European championships in May
When we played in the U19 Championships in 2019, there was a load of players unavailable because the tournament was held in July and they were in preseason training with their clubs
https://foot.ie/threads/236671-2019-...=1#post2006381

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Do you remember the the fuss about Robbie Keane when with Leeds Utd, ireland had the priority to call him up to the 1999 WC Youth finals in Nigeria, very much against Leeds wishes.

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Originally Posted by geysir

Ireland u17s at the world cup, a wildly expanded version. I managed to watch the 2nd half of their third group game v Paraguay, where they looked a distinct class above the diving prone unfit gasping Paraguayans. Alas there was no winning goal forthcoming which meant they just missed out on being drawn against a 3rd place team and got Canada in the last 32. That's right, the last 32 at an underage world cup final tournament:rolleyes:


Btw, clubs cannot refuse to release youth players for World/Euro competitive games.

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As tets mentioned, it depends. They could have for this one.

Colin O’Brien warns of club v country showdown ahead of Ireland’s U17 World Cup campaign https://share.google/UPk5bsbjqo9RpvHZc

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Originally Posted by geysir

Do you remember the the fuss about Robbie Keane when with Leeds Utd, ireland had the priority to call him up to the 1999 WC Youth finals in Nigeria, very much against Leeds wishes.

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The World Youth Championships took place in April 1999 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F...h_Championship - Robbie was still with Wolves at the time, he didn't sign for Leeds until 2001

Breakdown of Finneran's performance
Click on the tweet, there's more in the full version

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Originally Posted by Razors left peg

Apparently Man Utd have been keeping tabs on Noonan and Vinnie Leonard

https://www.unitedinfocus.com/transf...medium=twitter

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I have heard Arsenal are in for Noonan off someone in the know from St Pat's. Said it wasn't a done deal to be fair, but he isn't a bull****ter.

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Breakdown of Finneran's performance
Click on the tweet, there's more in the full version

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You’d feel more optimistic about the breakdown if they were aware that we played 532 rather than a 433 considering it’s the first line that they write

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

The World Youth Championships took place in April 1999 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F...h_Championship - Robbie was still with Wolves at the time, he didn't sign for Leeds until 2001

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Thanks for the vital correction of the name of club. The question was whether there was a fuss or not about Robbie being released for the WC youth finals. Regardless, I see now that its a moot point, as clubs were and are not compelled to release players for intl duty should the games fall outside the Intl window.

It just so happens that these u17 finals have an intl window right in the middle of this tournament (by shrewd design?). A club probably could've refused to release a player for Ireland's first game but the 2nd and 3rd games fell inside the intl window, the player would've had to be released for those 2 games and the round of 32 as well. If a club was going to have to release a player for 2 or 3 games then why put up a major fuss about the first game?

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Originally Posted by geysir

Thanks for the vital correction of the name of club. The question was whether there was a fuss or not about Robbie being released for the WC youth finals. Regardless, I see now that its a moot point, as clubs were and are not compelled to release players for intl duty should the games fall outside the Intl window.

It just so happens that these u17 finals have an intl window right in the middle of this tournament (by shrewd design?). A club probably could've refused to release a player for Ireland's first game but the 2nd and 3rd games fell inside the intl window, the player would've had to be released for those 2 games and the round of 32 as well. If a club was going to have to release a player for 2 or 3 games then why put up a major fuss about the first game?

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O'Neill mentioned a few weeks back that no request was made for any player to sit out any amount of games. Don't think many, bar Noonan, were "needed" by their clubs anyway? The LoI season was over for most of the lads who made up our impressive "senior minutes played" stat.