You mean the sort of training that they get at places like Mansfield and Colchester.
If ever an advert was needed to counter the infatuation with cross channel football, it was provided by the U/12 team in last year's games v portugal and England.
We produced a team full of one paced, one sided, plodders from the lower level U.K clubs.
None of these players would have been any the worse off had they stayed with local clubs here.
I doubt that this ban could be successfully enforced - but it would be nmarvellous if it could be and might bring an end to one of the last vestiges of child labour in Europe.
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