@tarosuke75@GayoCaesar So do you suggest Japanese soccer player to play in JUFA first or to turn pro straight after U18 academy? At the moment, there’s no other age group after U18, the U21 JFA league will be kicked off this year but there’s not much news on it. So not sure it is happening.
@rajjjjjj69 Graduated from a very good sports university in Kyoto. Currently the university playing in Japanese University Football association (JUFA) Kansas League Division 1.
For 20 years people have been seeking reform in Italian football and it falls on deaf ears, italy have poor infrastructure, poor facilities, old crumbling stadiums, a top world country acts like a third world one.
The old bastards who run the Italian federation don’t care, they prefer to be in bed with their whores, taking back handers than develop and grow Italian football. In 2011, Roberto Baggio (Italy’s greatest ever player) presented a comprehensive 900-page report to the FIGC aimed at revolutionizing Italian football, focusing on youth development, technical skills, and educational infrastructure. The proposal was ignored by the federation, resulting in Baggio resigning in 2013 from his role as technical sector president. The treated Baggio like a dog….
The football academies produce players with some talent that never see the dizzy highest of elite football. They end up playing in the Serie C or D playing on sand in crumbling death trap stadiums never fulfilling their dreams.
The clubs also need to take blame, rather play old foreign players than playing their own talent. Juventus saw this 10 years ago and created the nextgen, aim to produce young talent and develop them…fast forward to present day there’s only three, YES ONLY THREE, clubs who have teams playing in Serie C: Juventus Next Gen, Atalanta U23 and Milan Futuro (Milan Futuro actually got relegated to Serie D).
It’s embarrassing, pathetic, and sad. Italy will never compete with the best teams on the international stage ever again.
Italy is finished as a footballing country and is never coming back…,
Finito
@Barokaizen Not only UEFA but all countries except your home country apply for players Under 18. Also all country has their own working permit requirements and their own foreign player quotas. So not only you have to fulfill FIFA requirements but other requirements too.