Talented young footballers

[Guest Striker]

We will be moving to Perth within the next 3 weeks and have a talented young footballer who is 9 years old, 10 late December.

We are looking for a good school with an equally good club football team ideally in the same area and dare I say in a good affordable suburb?

The football team needs to be competitive with excellent training as he is a natural and needs very good training.

We are from New Zealand and while in the UK, had some training at the Aston Villa academy and was noted for his talent and one of the premier teams where he played told us that he will go as far as he wants to.

What I am needing to know is, if there are any competitive teams that Jared could possibly look at trialling at and at the at the same time give the the right training that a talented boy of his calibre needs.

 

Edited November 17, 2012 by Striker

[Georgiajoemillie]

Hi,

I'm a coach in uk.

don't take this the wrong way, but if is really good at football , wouldn't it be better to stay in the uk where there are more sides to choose from and maybe he'll get a break. ( nothing against oz soccer )

think about the millions of kids in the world all wanting and trying to be pros, only a very few make it.

Im not having a pop or dig, just curious

 

ian

[Adjutant]

Hi ... Yeah you might want to hear this .........but not every child born in the UK is a magical footballer, especially at nine. Lets face it do you want you son growing up to have a career in falling over and holding his shin and crying like a big girl until the referee until the gives him a free kick?

 

Or do you want him to grow up, well educated with a healthly outdoor lifestyle?

 

There are more sports than soccer out there to choose from, but a solid education can not be beat.

 

 

As Georgiajoemillie said ... not all will be pros, so dont try and live your own dreams though your children (I'm to be a nice person, but hopefully realistic)

 

Lets hope the "anti-soccer" accusations rebuttals dont follow.

 

If Oz is Jared future consider getting him involved in a range of sports to see what he prefers ... lets face it Rugby is a real sport to play ... (Discuss ... )

[Georgiajoemillie]

Hi ... Yeah you might want to hear this .........but not every child born in the UK is a magical footballer, especially at nine. Lets face it do you want you son growing up to have a career in falling over and holding his shin and crying like a big girl until the referee until the gives him a free kick?

 

Or do you want him to grow up, well educated with a healthly outdoor lifestyle?

 

There are more sports than soccer out there to choose from, but a solid education can not be beat.

 

 

As Georgiajoemillie said ... not all will be pros, so dont try and live your own dreams though your children (I'm to be a nice person, but hopefully realistic)

 

Lets hope the "anti-soccer" accusations rebuttals dont follow.

 

If Oz is Jared future consider getting him involved in a range of sports to see what he prefers ... lets face it Rugby is a real sport to play ... (Discuss ... )

 

 

Rugby , egg chasing

 

football is a true sport , more skillfull ,

 

one wish ( as you've guessed I'm not into rugby) would be that football took a lot of rugby's principles and wired up the ref , had a 10 min in bin and moved the ball forward for dissent .

divers , play actors. Don't get me started

[ali]

What area are you moving to? Perth is massive. Have a look on football wests website for clubs in the area you're moving to. The acadamys tend to be additional training at the age of 9. If you're interested in a football career for him then I would stay in the UK

[jamesw]

Assuming you are looking for an under 11 team for the 2013 season, then you will be looking at small sided football, as 11 a side games don't happen until under 12's. There a few clubs that have acadamies with pro teams, there is one team with Burnley links and another with Tottenham, however, these links are very VERY small and I have not yet heard of anyone from these acadamies being offered a contract with these clubs. I think the best route would be to join a teaam, attend the state league trials, and see what happens from there.

 

At that age, the ideal in Australia is development and having fun. When you get to under 12's and beyond, then you will find that results are collated and league tables produced.

 

As Ali said, there is a club directory on the football west website. http://www.myfootballclub.com.au/index.php?id=63

[Guest Striker]

Hi ... Yeah you might want to hear this .........but not every child born in the UK is a magical footballer, especially at nine. Lets face it do you want you son growing up to have a career in falling over and holding his shin and crying like a big girl until the referee until the gives him a free kick?

 

Or do you want him to grow up, well educated with a healthly outdoor lifestyle?

 

There are more sports than soccer out there to choose from, but a solid education can not be beat.

 

 

As Georgiajoemillie said ... not all will be pros, so dont try and live your own dreams though your children (I'm to be a nice person, but hopefully realistic)

 

Lets hope the "anti-soccer" accusations rebuttals dont follow.

 

If Oz is Jared future consider getting him involved in a range of sports to see what he prefers ... lets face it Rugby is a real sport to play ... (Discuss ... )

What's this all about ?? You must have misinterpreted what I had said.

Please look at my posting again.

BTW, our son chose soccer and really loves it. We have not pushed it in any way and not trying to live our dreams through our children. Where did you get that from???

 

If we were using him to follow our dreams, would not be leaving the UK and the opportunities there for football. In our post we asked for an area that had good schooling as this is important and ideally with an equally good football club as logistically this would be great. As he has the talent and enjoys the game what's wrong about looking for a good club?

Edited November 17, 2012 by Striker

[Guest Striker]

What area are you moving to? Perth is massive. Have a look on football wests website for clubs in the area you're moving to. The acadamys tend to be additional training at the age of 9. If you're interested in a football career for him then I would stay in the UK

Hi Ali

Thanks for your reply. As we have not as yet left the UK, I thought I would get some ideas of any good areas that had good schooling and academys in the same area as we would then consider those options.

Regarding staying in the UK, I feel that our son is still very young and do not want him to be in a position where he feels pressured and possibly have his dreams shattered at such a young age. As he gets older, there will be a time and place for that. It is far more important for us at this stage for him to have good schooling and enjoy this beautiful game and see where it goes from there.

At the same time he needs to be challenged and needs good training to progress further but with far less pressure.

Just looking at the national Socceroos squad, they have many overseas internationals, playing top level football in the UK as well as Europe. Can't be that bad.

Looking at the Fifa world rankings, Australia ranks above Ireland, and well above Wales and Scotland.

Perth has a wonderful lifestyle and things are rather depressing in the UK at the moment. weather, economy, traffic and so many major stores closing. In the high street it is not uncommon to see many charity shops replacing high street stores.

[Sal]

I know a family who were in a similar position when they arrived from the UK and their son was 12 and contacted all the clubs via football west. best response they got was from Subiaco and that's where they ended up living - purely for the football team. Son is now playing for one of the football teams over East.