U17 EC Final 11.00 CET FT Germany v Holland 2-1

The final tournament will be held in Germany

The 2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship will be held in Germany from 6-18 May with the slogan 'Fußball kennt keine Grenzen' – football knows no borders.

Venues

Twelve eastern German towns in all will stage matches during the finals: 2003 UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship venues Markranstadt, Taucha, Grimma and Torgau plus Dessau-Rosslau, Sandersdorf, Jena, Meuselwitz, Erfurt, Gera, Gotha and Magdeburg. The semi-finals will be played in Dessau-Rosslau and Grimma on 15 May with the decider at the 25,000-capacity Stadion Magdeburg, completed in 2006.

The final qualification round (4 country mini-tourneys, winner qualifying) has already started.

Fixtures/Results:

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/under17/index.html

Standings:

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/under17/standings/index.html

Holland & Spain already have won their group & Italy are 99.999% certain they'll qualify with 1 match to be played.

In group 4 France & denmark won their first match.

3 groups haven't started yet. Group 7 with England, Hungary, Serbia & Portugal looks by far the toughest.

I only have heard of three out of twelve of those German cities

The England team:

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/under17/teams/team=400039/index.html


John Bostock and Jack Wilshere - England's future midfield, are both in the England squad

Emmanuel Frimpong is on our books I think - I'm pretty sure he's a left winger.

Jonjo Shelvey has been getting good reviews this season too - will be interested to see how the manager approaches this. I imagine he'll push Wilshere out to one of the wings and play Shelvey and Bostock as the central midfield?

Spain will finish with one of the best defensive records.

Why?, because 3 of the back four are from la masia.

Spain will not win the championship

Why?, because none of the attacking players are from la masia.

Now watch them win the title with the most goals conceded

La Masia the local village slut?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Masia

Ahh, its the place where the child-snatcher hides all the kiddies he catches

Axeslammer wrote:I only have heard of three out of twelve of those German cities

That's because to piss us off they organise it nearly in Poland. Stupid move anyway, means our caravans will fuck up their Autobahn traffic much longer.

Dutch team:

Ruben Ligeon, Joeri de Kamps, Fabian Sporkslede, Ricardo Kip (all 4 Ajax), Oguzhan Özyakup (Arsenal), Mohamed Madmar, Sead Mazreku (both AZ), Martijn de Vries, Rangelo Janga (both Excelsior Rotterdam), Shabir Isoufi, Osama Rashid, Stefan de Vrij, Luc Castaignos, Mats van Huijgevoort, Nigel Velder, Ryan Bouwmeester (all 7 Feyenoord), Renze Fij (FC Twente/Heracles), Jerry van Ewijk, Patrick ter Mate (both Vitesse/AGOVV).

ATHLETIC CLUB: Iker Muniain Goñi y Enric Saborit Teixidor

C. ATLÉTICO DE MADRID SAD: Jorge Resurrección Merodio “koke” y Borja González Tomás

F.C. BARCELONA: Albert Dalmau Martínez, Adria Blanchart Doménech, Sergio Gómez Sola

RCD ESPANYOL DE BARCELONA SAD: Edgar Badia Guardiola y Albert Blázquez Robles

REAL MADRID CF: Pablo Sarabia García, Alejandro Fernández Iglesias “Alex” y Rubén Sobrino Pozuelo

REAL SOCIEDAD DE FUTBOL SAD: Rubén Pardo Gutiérrez

VALENCIA CF SAD: Francisco Román Alarcón “Isco” y Cristian Portugués Manzanera

REAL VALLADOLID CF SAD: Víctor Mongil Adeva

VILLARREAL CF SAD: Kilian Falcón Rodríguez

Good start of qualification tourney (in Hungary) for Ingerland:

Portugal U17 - England U17 0-1

Freeman scored, Bostock assist

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/under17/fixturesresults/round=15212/match=304539/report=rp.html

Friday England have to play Serbia

Fixture list (times in CET):

25/03 Grp 7 Serbia 18:00 Hungary More »
25/03 Grp 5 Scotland 19:30 Austria More »
25/03 Grp 5 Georgia 19:30 Italy More »
26/03 Grp 6 Finland 13:00 Romania More »
26/03 Grp 6 Turkey 13:00 Wales More »
26/03 Grp 1 Greece 14:00 Switzerland More »
26/03 Grp 4 Denmark 14:30 Belarus More »
26/03 Grp 1 Poland 16:00 Slovenia More »
26/03 Grp 4 Norway 19:00 France More »
27/03 Grp 7 England 14:30 Serbia More »
27/03 Grp 7 Portugal 18:00 Hungary More »
28/03 Grp 6 Finland 13:00 Wales More »
28/03 Grp 6 Romania 13:00 Turkey More »
28/03 Grp 1 Poland 14:00 Switzerland More »
28/03 Grp 1 Slovenia 14:00 Greece More »
29/03 Grp 4 France 15:00 Denmark More »
29/03 Grp 4 Belarus 15:00 Norway More »
30/03 Grp 7 Serbia 17:30 Portugal More »
30/03 Grp 7 Hungary 17:30 England More »
31/03 Grp 6 Turkey 13:00 Finland More »
31/03 Grp 6 Wales 13:00 Romania More »
31/03 Grp 1 Greece 15:00 Poland More »
31/03 Grp 1 Switzerland 15:00 Slovenia More »

De Guzman wrote:Good start of qualification tourney (in Hungary) for Ingerland:

Portugal U17 - England U17 0-1

Freeman scored, Bostock assist

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/under17/fixturesresults/round=15212/match=304539/report=rp.html

Friday England have to play Serbia

That game was played in Szombathely, which is in Hungary. On the German border.

So they playing games in both countries then?

Glennengitis wrote:

De Guzman wrote:Good start of qualification tourney (in Hungary) for Ingerland:

Portugal U17 - England U17 0-1

Freeman scored, Bostock assist

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/under17/fixturesresults/round=15212/match=304539/report=rp.html

Friday England have to play Serbia

That game was played in Szombathely, which is in Hungary. On the German border.

So they playing games in both countries then?

Nope all matches are played in Hungary. These U whatever QF tourneys are always half-competitions hosted by 1 of the participating nations.

By the way Serbia beat Hungary 1-0, so ngland & the Serbs are tied at the top.

In group 5 Italy have qualified by winning twice, they only have to play Scotland, who already lost twice. Even if they lose they KO the winner of the Austria v Georgia match, because they already beat them.

Shaping up nicely for a great final tourney, so far qualified:

Germany (hosts), Spain, Italy & Holland.

England have nearly clinched qualification by beating Serbia 2-1. Freeman scored his 2nd goal of this qualification tournament & fellow Gunner Afobe scored the other goal.

http://www.thefa.com/England/U17s/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2009/03/U17s_elite_round_Serbia_details.htm

De Guzman wrote:England have nearly clinched qualification by beating Serbia 2-1. Freeman scored his 2nd goal of this qualification tournament & fellow Gunner Afobe scored the other goal.

http://www.thefa.com/England/U17s/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2009/03/U17s_elite_round_Serbia_details.htm

Wenger said a few months back that he had some brilliant young English players in the acedemy. I'm guessing Freeman is certainly one of them

Won our last game 2-0. Walcott and Afofe scored.

Walcott is the cousin of Theo. Jacob is his namo.

So qualified for the final tournament: Turkey, Swiss, England, Spain, France, Italy, Holland & hosts Germany. Good line-up.

Do you know who we're playing De Guzman?

Nobody knows, the draw still has to be made.

Group one:
Spain Italy France Swiss

Other group:
Germany Turkey England Holland.

easy draw for Holland.

We'll win that group De Guz.

Great stuff!! Shame about Turkey in the group instead of France, otherwise it would be a western european wet dream on paper...all the rivalries! Also shame we dont see such a group with the seniors..well except for Holland, they always get tough draws on tournies!!

No you won't tweedle. You will not know what hit you when you play v Holland. Make sure you watch that match.

Great tourney for us fey, half the Dutch team are Feyenoord players & this team is supposed to be very good. They outclassed Croatia 3-0 during qualification. Nearly all goals & we scored a lot) were scored by Feyenoord players.

Italy U-17 squad


Porteros: Perin (Genoa) y Bardi (Livorno)

Defensas: Benedetti (Torino), Campoli (Lazio), Sini (Roma), Baraldo (Piacenza), Bagnai (Fiorentina), Camporese (Fiorentina), Camilleri (Reggina) y Natalino (Inter)

Centrocampisti: De Vitis (Fiorentina), Finocchio (Parma), Fossati (Inter), Gammone (Bari), Scialpi (Lecce), Bianchi (Empoli) y Crisetig (Inter)

Delanteros: Libertazzi (Juventus), Dell’Agnello (Inter), Beretta (Albinoleffe), El Shaarawi (Genoa) y Gaeta (Milan).

Final Spain squad

ATHLETIC CLUB: Iker Muniain Goni y Enric Saborit Teixidor

CLUB ATLÉTICO DE MADRID SAD: Jorge Resurrección Merodio “Koke” y Borja González Tomás

FC BARCELONA: Albert Dalmau Martínez, Adriá Blanchart Doménech, Sergi Gómez Sola y Marc Muniesa Martínez

RCD ESPANYOL DE BARCELONA SAD: Edgar Badia Guardiola y Albert Blázquez Robles

REAL MADRID CF: Pablo Sarabia García, Alejandro Fernández Iglesias “Alex” y Rubén Sobrino Pozuelo

REAL SOCIEDAD F. SAD: Rubén Pardo Gutiérrez

REAL ZARAGOZA SAD: Kevin Lacruz Coscolin

CD SAN FRANCISCO: Yeray Gómez Ferragut

VALENCIA CF SAD: Francisco R. Alarcón Suárez “Isco” y Manuel Santos Felipe “Cifo”

Holland U17:

Ajax (4): Ruben Ligeon, Warner Hahn, Dico Koppers & Joël Veltman
Arsenal (1): Oguzhan Özyakup
AZ (1): Mohamed Madmar
SC Cambuur (1): Bob Schepers
Excelsior Rotterdam (2): Martijn de Vries, Rangelo Janga
Vitesse/AGOVV (2): Jerry van Ewijk en Patrick ter Mate
Feyenoord (7): Shabir Isoufi, Osama Rashid, Stefan de Vrij, Luc Castaignos, Mats van Huijgevoort, Nigel Velder & Ryan Bouwmeester

So exactly half the players are from Rotterdam

Players to watch: Özyakup, Janga, Isoufi & Castaignos

http://www.spox.com/de/sport/fussball/dfb-team/0905/Artikel/u-17-em-spox-ranking-top-acht-deutschland-vor-spanien.html

some kind of preview in German