Saturday, October 12, 2013

Young talents looming largely
















Young talents in the football are growing wide lately. In the latest World Cup qualifying matches, that saw England ease their way through to the World Cup campaign next year in Brazil, the likes of Andros Townsend rise to the occasion to prove the world that he is a threat to be reckoned by all the other opposition teams. Andros Townsend represented England for the under-16, 17, 19, 21 and now the Spurs under-rated midfielder has found his way through to the senior squad. Andros Townsend was given his senior international debut against Serbia & Montengero on Saturday morning, 12th October 2013 and he gave one helluva string of awesome performances against the Serbians and definitely did impress the England manager, Roy Hodgson. He played on the right flanks with Gerrard playing a deep cental role and Lampard on the left side. Townsend started his debut match brightly and went on to score a goal indeed in the second half, to pile pressure on the Serbians, in match that saw England bagged 4-1 over the Serbians. Townsend has often been moving around clubs on loan and now he's back in Spurs, and with his outstanding performances against the Serbians, Andres Villas Boas would definitely want to keep him in the fray of the Spurs line up. On the other hand, the rising star, Daniel Sturridge has been in fine form after a string of wonderful performances for Liverpool in the league, and he is now proving to be a massive threat in England too. During his days in Chelsea, he has often been benched and not the preferred forward over the likes of Drogba, Shevchenko those days. Since his transfer to Liverpool earlier this year from Chelsea,, Sturridge has been on fire for the Reds scoring six goals in the past seven games, and more to come from the England forward. His partnership with Luis Suarez, who is back from the 10 match suspension for biting Chelsea's Ivanovic is absolutely staggering and it is proving to be the best strike force in the Premier League thus far. Phileppe Coutiho has been sidelined for a shoulder injury, and will be out till the end of November, and his return will be extremely massive as Liverpool will have the strong strike force in the Premier League. The Reds are now in for the kill and to seal the Premier League title since 1990. Another under-rated youngster, Stephan El Shaarawy, aged 20 is an italian professional footballer, who plays for Italian side AC Milan. Shaarawy started his footballing career with Genoa and was then signed by AC Milan after a successful loan spell at Padova. Shaarawy has also played for the Italy under 17, 19, 21 and now the boy is playing at senior level with all the big guns, the likes of Andre Pirlo, Gianlugi Buffon, Totti and so on. Shaarawy is also one good example of a young prospect that has always been under-rated, and one good thing about this lad, is that he rejected offers from many big clubs, just to stay with AC Milan. He claims he wants to be AC Milan legend and going up the hall of fame, with the likes of Paulo Maldini, Gattuso, Seedorf and the list goes on. Expect more this youngster as he has more to provide for country and club.  

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