Toulon is on
1/6 - 15/6
https://festival-foot-espoirs.com/en...al/equipes.php
U-19 Finals in Armenia is on
14/7 - 27/7
https://www.uefa.com/under19/season=...x.html?iv=true
No major reasons the likes of Idah, Parrot etc can't play in both.
Tom Mohan has a great problem in selecting that squad. He'll have to omit a few who contributed to qualification.
Exciting times.
If a player is selected for both tournaments, it'll mean non stop football for them for a year. They do deserve a break!
Kayode on bench again today for rotherham
https://www.the42.ie/afolabi-millwal...73678-Apr2019/ . Interesting. Might be a good move even if they get relegated.
Preview of the finals from the42: https://www.the42.ie/republic-of-ire...76994-Apr2019/
An idea of the squad options.
Gavin Kilkenny
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That Mathew shields used us to get his Scottish call up and has played I think for them this season so ineligible I'd say embarrassing behaviour from him.
That Ryan corrigon is the unicorn of underage football never been involved for us
Cassidy ,Tommy caffrey at Celtic and kayode at rotherham are striker options
As a bolter hunt at Sheffield wed was in the recent 19s friendly squad and seems to be on the verge of breakthrough at his club
Given the timing of the tournament interfering with pre season alot of lads might be unavailable. Last summer England took a squad that was mostly second or third choice players
That is an amazing list of options. Great to read something like that.
Group draw is in about half an hour: https://www.uefa.com/under19/season=...950/index.html
Think this would be my squad assuming Obafemi isn’t allowed by Southampton which considering injury is pretty likely...
1. Maher^
2. Clarke
3. O’Connor^
4. Lyons^
5. Doherty*
6. Collins^
7. Gaston^
8. McEntee
9. Bolger
10. Coventry
11. Knight
12. Connell
13. Parrott
14. Idah
15. Ferry
16. Afolabi
17. Reghba
18. Smallbone
19. Kavanagh
20. Connolly
2000-01 is by far the most talented age group in decades. Probably another 20 lads who deserve consideration.
Does Leicester's Shane Flynn make the U19 or any of our underage squads? The Guardian tipped him as Leicester's "most likely to make it" academy player last year. He turns 18 in October.
He was in the under 18 squad at the end of last year: https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/irel...ish-tournament
Collins, Coventry and Obafemi have all been refused release by their respective clubs...
You’d also wonder how Luca Connell’s lack of having a club might remove him from contention
I think there will be a few more dropouts because of the timing unfortunately.
Two annoying things about this - firstly, why isn't the tournament on in June during the international window - the Euro under 17s and 21s are on then as well as the under 20 World Cup, why not the 19s?
Secondly, players like Conor Coventry will play a full part in West Hams pre-season, play a few warm up games and then get nowhere near the team once the season starts properly. Same for Adam Idah if he gets pulled out as expected, if he wasn't playing in the championship he won't be playing in the Premier league. Parrott possibly could be another one.
It makes a bit of a mockery of the whole tournament to be honest.
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