7 Average Football Clubs With Amazing Academies
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- čas přidán 24. 09. 2022
- From FC Sochaux-Montbéliard, where the likes of Jérémy Ménez, Marcus Thuram, and Ivan Perisic all made their names, to IF Brommapojkarna, where Swedish stars like Ludwig Augustinsson and Dejan Kulusevski began their careers, HITC Sevens takes a look at number of football clubs with mediocre first teams but incredible academies.
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Sad that my hometown club, VfB Stuttgart, isn't on this list. After all, we got relegated twice in the last 7 years and still produced Timo Werner, Antonio Rüdiger, Sami Khedira, Mario Gomez, Bernd Leno and Joshua Kimmich
Der VFB hat zu neulich die Bundesliga gewonnen
@@yasin_GD it's been 15 years.. that's not "recently"..
Serge Gnabry also
Atalanta is a smaller club than Stuttgart. If he didn’t include them then I don’t see why he would include you. Also, those in know are aware Stuttgart has an amazing academy especially compared to bigger clubs in Germany
Stuttgart sadly is a average club now, but they never should have been that... Sad decline, beautiful club
How about the reverse: 7 big clubs with underwhelming academies
PSG would be on that list.
I had no idea Bartra, Tello, Romeu, Cucurella and Gomez went through Espanyol academy before joining Barca. I'd imagine a fair few players start at smaller Catalan clubs and after playing against Barca in youth competitions are snapped up and brought to La Masia if they impress.
I would assume that’s a large part of la Masia’s success. Being able to pick up players from all across Catalonia, a quite rich area for talent.
Nope most players in the catalonia area including those in already professional youth setups get snatched up by la masia, that's the reason there so dominate in talent production.
13:27 was hoping for you to say Oriol Romeu. He was at Espanyol's youth ranks for just one season (2001-02), and then he moved on to FC Barcelona's academy for the rest of his youth ranks' days. The rest, as they say, is history.
But he did?
Time to do an IF Brommapojkarna save in football manager
I like that swedish football and footballers get more appreciation in your videos.
If I'm not misstaking, BP as Brommapojkarna are most commonly known here, has the most youth teams of all clubs in Europe. They basically have all of west Stockholms talent pool by themself, as well as recruting other talented youngsters from lesser clubs. It's not uncommon for their best team in every age group to compete with teams who is one year older then them. Their first team squad are part time players (with a slight reservation of this information being a few years old). Albin Ekdal and his younger brother Hjalmar also came through BPs academy btw.
A quite funny story about Nordfeldt, Swedens number two for a long while. He was a forward as a youngster and wasn't good enough for their team. However, their keeper quit the sport and he took up the spot and the rest is history. A former classmate played with him and told the story. I recall Nordfeldt confirming this story a few years back as well :)
Shame they are a shameful excuse of a club. Any club that is pay to play is scum in my eyes..
At least an honorable mention: SC Freiburg. With several german national players (Aogo, Herrlich, Ginter, Schlotterbeck etc) they are known for their excellent youth teams.
haven't they been a european/top half bundesliga team for a few years now? i think their academy is pretty proportional to their ability as a club. it's good a good academy but not amazing
@@lachlanwong6448 they play international football for the first time since 2017 and only the 5th time overall. Even Southampton has played more international games in the last 10 years
@@lachlanwong6448 the fact that they play up there is more so a display of their amazing ability to make wine out of water. Freiburg is actually a rather poor club that managed to keep themselves in the Bundesliga and work their way up due to academy talents and really smart business. They display quite the opposite of demising giants like Schalke, Hamburg, Nürnberg and Hannover and deserve to play european not due to money but due to hard earned success
Noah Weißhaup looks like he’ll be another one for you all. His versatility is impressive (and a must-sign for an up and coming EPL side in Football Manager lol)
Sparta Rotterdam should be in the list
- Strootman
- Depay
- Wijnaldum
- Danny Blind
- Ed de Goey
- Viergever
- Mendes da Silva
- Nordin Boukhari
- Jethro Willems
- Romeo Castelen
- Geetruida
- El Ghazi
- Marten de Roon
- Rick van Drongelen
- Dervisoglu
Does Dumfries count?
Or was he in the academy for too short
@@johnnym3071 He was in the academy too short. He was playing for 3 different amateur clubs untill he got signed by Sparta at age 16.
Maybe he spend just 3 years at Sparta, which makes him homegrown for Uefa, but I wouldnt say he comes from the academy. He signed his professional Sparta contract within a year of joining the club.
Aflie, congrats on 500k! Genuinely a top guy, hope you celebrate!
So proud to see my hometown club Sochaux feature
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now.
The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore.
How they were very close to moving to ireland
How they went up the English football leagues.
It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
Brillant as always
Love to see Southampton get a shout! My brother and I often think about how good their “what if XI” would be like.
I was signed to Reading in the 80s. They didn't have adequate resources for a youth set up at the old Elm Park ground so The FA lent Bisham Abbey to the club. Can't think of a poorer club with better youth facilities than that.
Reading are my hometown club and they have a really good academy compared to their status. Webb, Olise, Richards and so forth
@@Twinned_with_Jim Ian Branfoot was the boss in them days with Stewart Henderson running the youth system. 👍 I was from Bracknell but lived in Reading for years; Junction/Newtown, Central, Oxford Rd, Whitley Wood all the posh places. 😂👍
If we’re talking relatively, then Crewe Alex having the 11th highest ranked academy out of 82 in England and Wales whilst being in League Two deserves a mention
Crewe Alex is like what if the Spanish U-19 teams like Damm or Kelme had a senior team. CF Kelme has produced Thiago, Abde, and the retired Real Madrid player Juanfran amongst a pile of Spanish journeymen. Damm's pretty much where Barca and Espanyol look for overlooked talents.
Sheffield United FC should be included; Walker, Naughton, Maxine Chanot, Maguire, Lowton, Ndiaye, Phil Jagielka, Tonge, Sharp, Dominic Calvin Lewin, Quinn Brothers(Alan & Stephen), David brooks. Aaron Ramsdale and many more
They deserve a trophy for being such a good academy 🙄
I don't think ndiaye is through their academy
@@jhaych He played in a lot of Academy games the season before his first team break through so will count that as an Academy product. Jacob Mellis, Aaron Ramsdale, Nicky law, Ben whiteman, Reagan Slater still a lot I can’t even remember
A pretty random but solid shout would be Paradou AC in Algeria.
Produced players like Bensebaini, Youcef Atal and Hicham Boudaoui since they refocused on improving their academy
Thanks for acknowledging Sporting club d Portugal , i salute you guys for That... 🏆
Crewe Alexandra and Kelme (a U-19 only club in Spain) are particularly potent and I'd probably name them as honorable mentions as Kelme is pretty much the origin of many of the Villarreal products and Crewe is 11th best in England while in League Two
Edit: Also forgot another U-19 powerhouse in Damm which also serves as a feeder line for Espanyol, Villarreal, and Barcelona which makes Kelme look like minnows. It should be noted that these academies operate in areas where there's a large population and relatively few teams for said population (Barcelona and Valencia) fighting over the rejected academy prospects.
04:07 as a fan who remembers 70s European football. Shocked to see Bastia and esp St Etienne at the bottom of the French second tier. they were top clubs in the late 70s.
I did not expect to see Lokomotiva on a HITC video, a very nice surprise
Can you make a video on the 7 nations most likely to become 1st time World Cup winners by the end of the 21st century?
Cringe
Good one dude
@@BigDeyum how’s that cringe
Portugal
Netherlands portugal Belgium Nigeria USA ivory coast canada
I’d really like to see a video on those football academies like the Right to Dream academy and others like it.
Genération Foot could feature, too!
Without further Adu will never get old.
The story of Martin Palermo. Missed a hat trick of penalties.
that was bad. i’m glad he redeemed himself for the national team 10 years later.
He deserves a video because he is a LEGEND not for missing penalties
Missing penalties don't make you bad, remember this Italian guy called Roberto Baggio who missed his penalty at the world cup and ...
I never comment but Alfie I think I can speak for most of us here. We enjoy your videos so much!
bro said "a small town of 200.000 people" bruh that'd be a city here lmao
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Benfica’s academy has surpassed Sporting Lisbon’s one in the past decade. With talent like Felix, Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva, Ederson, Oblak, Cancelo, Renato Sanches, Guedes, Andre Gomes, Semedo, Lindelof, Jota (Celtic), Gedson, Jose Sá, Danilo Pereira and many others like Carmo (FC Porto), the Horta brothers (Braga), Nuno Santos (Sporting), current amazing youngsters like CB Antonio, Striker Ramos and DM Florentino,
Sporting Lisbon still decent, churning out players like Leao and Nuno Mendes, but the 2 best European ones are Ajax’s and Benfica’s Academies. Even Barca’s Academy has dried up after the Guardiola’s golden generation.
Yeah dried up claiming 3 of the top 5 golden boy last season - pedri fati gavi - also have balde araujo had part development there
@@lewissmith4095 Pedro came at 17 from Las Palmas and was already a professional player playing in La Liga.
So he's not from La Masia.
Gavi was 5th last year and Ansu Fati wasn't even in the top 20.
Just looking through the names you listed two players who only joined Benfica after turning 18 and are therefore not Benfica players like Oblak and Ederson. I didn't bother to look further.
And looking further while Benfica do have an amazing academy-system (which is mostly due to the system in Portugal where 2nd teams can play 2nd divison and the difference in skill between topflight teams is huge giving youngsters more practice against easier opponents) Carmo left Benfica at 14. Lindelöf is a Västeras youth prospect, not Benfica. Danilo Pereira is an Estoril Praia prospect. So without going through everyone there are a lot of players in your list who weren't actually trained through the Benfica youth academy for the decisive parts of their development. They're still great but not as great as you claim.
@@richardm.227 I mean, even if some of them are not part of the list, we sill held and trained many youngsters who came to be regarded as great players.
And don’t be confused, they’re great as he claims. Danilo is not a bad player, but average. So is Lindelöf and Carmo, but every other one is a great player, don’t underrate.
Players like Bernardo Silva, João Cancelo, Rúben Dias, João Félix, Renato Sanches, Rui Costa, Florentino, Jota, Ederson (which, contrary to what you said, came to our academy before he was 18), Ricardo Horta, André Horta, and many more to come, like Gonçalo Ramos, António Silva, Henrique Araújo, Cher Ndour, Martim Neto, João Resende are just examples of pure quality.
Septemvri Sofia is also a very average team who have a very decent academy for Bulgarian standards. Recently they gained promotion to the top flight of Bulgarian football and a very large portion of our U19 and U21 teams play for septemvri. However, none of the players have become world beaters by European standards(hopefully will change soon)
Love most of your videos! Just a heads-up, Hajduk is pronounced like "high duke"
Such a badass name!
As a teen, I spent a summer in Sweden, and got to train with my age groups team for Brommapojkarna, their set up was quite impressive!
Brommapojkarna is quite the funny name. That's my very relevant contribution to this theme.
Well done with the pronunciation of "Brommapojkarna"
Philip Rolke is a legend coming from the Bromma Academy 🇸🇪
Even after Lokomotiva legally separated from Dinamo, the unofficial ties remained until recently. Lovro Majer was Dinamo youth player before moving to Lokomotiva, for instance.
No mention of Argentinos Juniors? Riquelme, Maradona, Fernando Redondo, etc.
They only been a small team last 30 years before then they were big club and even won libertores
Alfie is really loving the 'Adu' pun. LOL
Hitc 7s, 7 greatest videos
Sunderland Women - they've had players such as Jill Scott, Jordan Nobbs, Lucy Bronze, and Beth Mead all go on to move to bigger clubs, and achieve great things.
Maybe not quite the right choice for this list which is about creating elite talent
But my hometown club in the past few years regularly has 8-9 academy graduates in the squad with many of these players outperforming our paid signings
Players like Lewis Travis, The Wharton brothers Scott and Adam and the diminutive playmaker john Buckley always seem to play well
We even had to beat interest from top teams to extend the contract of young centre back Ashley Phillip's who has a massive future in the game
9:40 precedes to show a picture of Lewis Payne. Then doesn’t mention him whilst also calling dom Ballard tom bollard. But I still appreciate the mention. Also players like diamond Edwards, Jimmy Morgan , Tyler Dibling, Luke Pearce and Sam amo-ameyaw are top talents in our academy
Brommapojkarna isn't guaranteed promotion yet, still 6 games left in Superettan since we start our season in the spring.
can you make a video of 7 teams that could win their first european trophies by the end of the century
16:48 A minor correction. In the rankings you showed, Sweden would be "just below" Cyprus and Israel. They would be "sandwiched between" Israel and Bulgaria. Just sayin'.
Excellent video as usual.
Maybe not quite amazing, but Wigan’s academy is also very good. Especially given our size
Prosinecki is Croatian but he grew up in Red Star Belgrade academy because at that time Blazevic, who was coaching the Dinamo Zagreb academy said that he would eat his boots if Prosinecki ever becomes a good footballer. So Red Star Belgrade scouts came and brought him to Serbia where he continued trainig and entered main team along giants such as Savicevic, Jugovic, Belodedici, Pamcev, etc. in time to win the 1991 European Champions Cup.
Day 64 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar
From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing comeback to European competitions in 2021 seeing the early exit of Greek giants AEK Athens in a sensational win in Athens!
Asking you to do a video on the rise and fall of Bursaspor, attempt 10
Spot on about Portugal.
For The Netherlands I was hoping you would consider AZ to be too good, giving a shot to my club Sparta Rotterdam. The last few decades they've been mostly dangling between the first and second tier of Dutch football. Former players that came through their academy include the likes of Danny Blind, Ed de Goey, Winston Bogarde (who despite his antics at Chelsea towards the end of his career, was a very good defender) and current players include Memphis Depay, Kevin Strootman, Marten de Roon and Georginio Wijnaldum
Based off his logic for AZ, clubs like spurs and arsenal could be featured in this video
If you would have thought AZ was too big, traditionally in the Netherlands the small/average club with the good youth development has been Sparta Rotterdam. Although lately that has become less due to Feyenoord stepping up their youth development. Also lol for your brave pronunciation of Teun Koopmeiners.
I remember when Sparta got relegated in 2010 with a team that included Strootman, de Roon, Viergever, Duplan en Falkenburg. Bizarre!
😂😂😂 The Adu joke is still good.... Without further Adu 😂
3:05 I know Alfie was beeming to himself when he wrote "that significant scuffle" for wwii
Is this a FM23 teams to manage video, or did I get confused about halfway through
Lol it's funny seeing Bromma pop up as #1. This was the club that I always choose when playing top eleven, because of their emblem.
How do u have 4 Ivorians who graduated from Asec Mimosas on the video picture and u don’t mention them
Can you make a video about AD Alcorcón? They got relegated last year and they are struggling again in Spain's third tier.
Are they still under Duchatelet control? I'm a Charlton fan and we are still suffering from Roland's decisions
The problem with Chelsea's approach though is that it's purely a numbers game, they just buy every youngster they can, I believe at one point either last season or the season before they had either 75 youth players total or 75 out on loan, I can't remember which but that number was definitely banded around somewhere, the problem with this approach is that you cannot keep the necessary eye on all of these players so while they have had amazing success with the youth they've also said goodbye to Declan Rice, Mohamed Salah, Romelu Lukaku, Kevin De Bruyne, Nathan Ake, Tariq Lamptey, there's 6 just off the top of my head and those 6 pretty much get into any starting 11 in world football, even Lamptey.
wot no TSV 1860?
Last relegated from the Bundesliga in 2004, currently in the 3.Liga - if we only look at the era after relegation, they have since produced German internationals Lars & Sven Bender, Marcel Schäfer, Kevin Volland, Julian Weigl, Florian Neuhaus, Felix Uduokhai, Philipp Max, US international Fabian Johnson, Austria internationals Julian Baumgartlinger and Philipp Hosiner, Greece International José Holebas plus a wide range of Bundesliga players like Marius Wolf, Moritz Leitner, Florian Niederlechner, Philipp Tschauner, Tobias Strobl, Daniel Baier, Peniel Mlapa, Stefan Aigner, plus Chritopher Schindler who captained Huddersfield in their recent Premier League tenure and Maxi Wittek of Arnheim in the Eredivisie. Long before that, players like Rudi Völler, Benjamin Lauth or Dienel Bierofka were learning their trade at 1860. The next big one could be Leo Morgalla wo is excelling as a centre back with great anticipation and extra-deep-lying playmaker skills already at 17 (in the 3rd Liga, mind).
This makes Damm, Kelme, and Crewe Alex look small time.
Love the video Alf, but Gyokores is pronounced yok-or-es 😄
Alfie mate did you did describe WW2 as a significant scuffle? lol legend
Trodde aldrig att Tim Björkström the GOAT skulle dyka upp på denna kanal
I think one interesting case is also MSK Zilina
Denmark can boast several examples, too! Nordsjælland, obviously, found their main fortune in their association with the Right to Dream academy, but also produced talents such as Mikkel Damsgaard and Andreas Skov Olsen.
An even more obscure club is Lyngby, which provided the base platform for the careers of future Danish internationals such as Klaus Berggreen, Dennis Rommedahl, Yussuf Poulsen and Andreas Bjelland.
This channel isn't about handball 😅
10:40 - it's more like "hi-duke" Split
7 goalkeepers with the fewest clean sheets in history
With a minimum of how many games played? Better perhaps to go for % CS
@@daarom3472 thats probably better
But he did a video a while ago
7 strikers with fewer goals than sergio ramos
And most of them were over the course of their entire career
Good one.
@@saeed_05 should do 1 on fewer goals than Ronald Koeman xD
Actually majority of strikers would eligible :p
@@daarom3472 Koeman had a great knack for goals
He could even do one about rogerio ceni the brazillian gk he had over 100 goals
*writing down my future potential Football Manager 23 saves*
Why isn't Man United on this list?
Had a lot of great homegrown talent like James, Drinkwater and Lingard in recent years.
Also honorable mention to Sheffield for launching the carreers of the likes of Maguire.
😅😅
Cheeky
Yeah, I was wondering the same Daarom. Poor united, definitely deserve a shoutout here.
Honorable mention: Middlesbrough.
We've produced Marcus Tavernier, Djed Spence, Dael Fry, Ben Gibson, Isiah Jones and Adam Reach in recent years.
Who are they 😂
Djed Spence was made at Fulham's academy... He's the only one i've heard of in this list.
@@joehartwell8910 that’s awful knowledge from you then
@@seanwhitaker8447 don't knowing all the championship reserve players makes you an ignorant about football?
@@silviofelix1991 not really championship reserves and tavernier plays in the prem
Football manager players taking mad notes rn.
Video idea:
7 clubs that seems to always lacking in one position. (Goalkeeper, sweeper, wingback, striker, etc.)
Man U has been lacking in a referee since Howard Webb retired in 2014.
10:49 I'm from Poland, not from Croatia, but it's definitely Hajduk not Hadjuk so... I think it should sound more like Haïduk 😅
Alfie's, where is Charlton ath whose academy graduates inc Ezri Konsa (Aston villia), Rob Elloit (ROI International), Scott Parker, Lee Bowyer, Joe Gomez (Liverpool), Jermain Defoe. We have had a hand in Nick Pope although I give bury full credit for him. I mean surly that is enough
Liberty Professionals have provided the likes of Michael Essien, Kwadwo Asamoah, Asamoah Gyan, Sulley Muntari
For anyone dipping into the comments and wanting a bit more information about Crewe Alex. Here is some, as I'm a season ticket holder.
We're a club that has little money, but put a lot of it into our academy system, which is Category B. Cat. A is filled with your Chelseas and United's etc. The mega rich.
So the fact a poor league 2 club is cat B is ridiculous.
As Alfie says, we've produced many top players. David Platt, Danny Murphy and Dean Ashton are the standout names. But also Ashley Westwood has had a good EPL career and Nick Powell had all the potential in the world when United signed him. But Louis Van Gaal made him train with the U18s and he nearly quit football altogether. When fit, he's now absolutely the best midfielder in the championship (playing for Stoke).
Of late, we're not producing Premier League players anymore. We're on the door step of Liverpool, Everton, United, City and Stoke, who all have decent academies and poach young Cheshire-born talents.
However our promotion in 2019/20 was fully powered by academy stars, who have all been since sold to bigger clubs - mainly Championship ones.
Perry Ng and Ryan Wintle are starters at Cardiff City
Harry Pickering is at Blackburn Rovers
Charlie Kirk has since played for Blackpool and Charlton
Owen Dale moved to Blackpool, now on loan at Portsmouth
Tommy Lowery is also at Portsmouth.
There are plenty more examples of former Crewe Alex academy graduates throughout the EFL too.
We got relegated when we sold them all. But now we have a new manager, who also progressed through the academy as a player and a coach, and he's brought 5/6 highly rated talents from the U18s with him.
Keep an eye out for the likes of Joel Tabiner, Charlie Finney, Connor Evans, Matus Holicek, Tom Booth, Zac Williams (Brighton wanted him in the summer), Connor O'Riordan, Sean Lawton and Lewis Billington.
5 of them made their pro debuts last year as 17 year olds.
Every 3 years or so this happens, a full new crop of youngsters to be excited about on the pitch. The future is exciting
Theo Walcott was a product of the Swindon Town youth academy
to be fair, lokomotiva zagreb are practically dinamo's feeder team
Day 1: You should make a video on the two worst football clubs on earth: Astra Giurgiu 🇷🇴 and Kardemir Karabükspor (they've won 5 games in the past 6 seasons)
my team unfortunately should be on the list too since we’re less than average now, im talking about schalke 04.
Ozil, neuer, howedes, sanè, jens lehman, draxler, matip, kolasinac,
George Saunders playing for Envigado is still a weird story
Why no mention of Ross county's
14:01 it’s a picture of Alaves, not Espanyol 😂
independiente del Valle in Ecuador is the best youth academy in the world at the moment. It has risen so much in the last 5-10 years and it seems like every other week a teenager is being sold to Europe
Fun fact another dutch club groningen fc have also produce players such as van dijk, Arjen robben and klaas jam huntelaar
Van Dijk came through the ranks of Willem 2. Who also have a good academy. Certainly considering they also had F. de Jong
sochaux's collapse this season was hard to watch, even as a metz fan
I can't believe Huddersfield weren't included they produced the likes of Jon Stead and erm....did I say Job Stead?
Have the meaning of the "sandwiched" changed without me knowing, Alfie?
Small mistake yes
Ty for putting us above benfica
500k sub special?
18:30 Americans hearing this
“That’s nothing, travel sports here are so much worse”
Did anyone else notice the MLS scarf when he was talking about average?
What happened to Panathinaikos?
Do a vid on the central coast mariners pld
Pls
FC Metz could have made the list:
We got Emmanuel Adebayor, Bouna Sarr, Emmanuel Adebayor, Kalidou KOULIBALY, Miralem Pjanić, Robert Pires, Rigobert Song, Sébastien Bassong, Patrick Battiston. All in all 5 current/recent players of the Senegal team made their debuts with Metz.
Some of them actually came from affiliate clubs (like the Senegalese academy Genération Foot), but yeah, it's still a good example!
@@pierfrancescocosta6336 Yes I shortened my comment down to include a larger amount of players but most of their recent Senegalese international, if not all, came from Generation Foot.
You forgot Emmannuel Adebayor.
@@sukhdevr3489 He is the first I mention :)
@@MrNibal01 Haha. And 3rd.
Osasuna also has one of the best academies in Spain. They made the careers of Cesar Azpilicueta, Raul Garcia, Jon Moncayola and others
Lokomotiva is still effectively Dinamo's feeder team 😆
Las Palmas deserves a mention
Got a friend who plays at IFB
I would invite everyone to google the number of top flight brazilian footballers that came out of the Santos FC youth programs.