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♔ ♕ ♚ ♛ Australia U17/U20/U23 National Team Tournaments & Discussion Thread ♔ ♕ ♚ ♛

And with that Australia will face Japan or Iran in the semis. All I care about is beating Iraq. Got to make the WC.
 
south korea level and we retake the lead

tatu just hit the post. Pretty even with australia slightly better
 
Barca4life said:
The results are a bonus once your in a World Cup but the exposure is more valuable.
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The regimes of Berger/Baan, later Erik Abrahms ( the Belgian underage Aus Tech Dir) were keener on QUALIFYING for underage World Cups, than the RESULTS at them, to see how Aus players were developing relative to the opposition. So exposure is important according to the recent Tech Depts of FFA and Football Aus.

If Grazor is reading this, this may answer your post, where you suggested those results at underage tournaments should be important. Any coach knows at rep comps/tournaments, the players in one's team will desperately try and beat the opposition, regardless of whether the coach and coaching staff rep association/sub branches of Aus Football Feds, think it is a priority to win.

It is important to gauge the relative development though. One state Football Fed Aus SAP coach, A, I was under the tutelage of, took a state SAP team to Korea for a tournament. His sole interest was to gauge the technical prowess of his SAPs compared to Korea, Japan, Saudi and Iran at the same age. A was quite happy with the comparative technical prowess. However, there was a Sporting Lisbon underage team present as well, who were another technical level! The bar was raised!
 
WhatAmIWatching said:
Finally got to watch the game against China. Australia dominated the first half with good positioning, slick passing and Bennie being an outstanding captain. The second half, Australia faded and China stepped up their game. Australia got very lucky in that China should have scored twice. Still can't believe they missed.

Most players played well. However, I felt that Yull was not effective and I would have replaced him at half-time. Pearman had his moments but he was inconsistent.
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Thanks for that. Was really interested to read a report of the game.

Haven't been able to access any full matches.

Interesting that we faded?
 
Decentric said:
The regimes of Berger/Baan, later Erik Abrahms ( the Belgian underage Aus Tech Dir) were keener on QUALIFYING for underage World Cups, than the RESULTS at them, to see how Aus players were developing relative to the opposition. So exposure is important according to the recent Tech Depts of FFA and Football Aus.

If Grazor is reading this, this may answer your post, where you suggested those results at underage tournaments should be important. Any coach knows at rep comps/tournaments, the players in one's team will desperately try and beat the opposition, regardless of whether the coach and coaching staff rep association/sub branches of Aus Football Feds, think it is a priority to win.

It is important to gauge the relative development though. One state Football Fed Aus SAP coach, A, I was under the tutelage of, took a state SAP team to Korea for a tournament. His sole interest was to gauge the technical prowess of his SAPs compared to Korea, Japan, Saudi and Iran at the same age. A was quite happy with the comparative technical prowess. However, there was a Sporting Lisbon underage team present as well, who were another technical level! The bar was raised!
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Fair points Decentric, as long as continue to improve technically whilst being able to still compete physically then we remain on the right track.

I always thought the technical part is the hardest part to improve and historically it’s being a weakness within Oz football but I’ve noticed in the last few years Oz players have improved a lot on the technical side which bodes well going into the future.
 
Decentric said:
The regimes of Berger/Baan, later Erik Abrahms ( the Belgian underage Aus Tech Dir) were keener on QUALIFYING for underage World Cups, than the RESULTS at them, to see how Aus players were developing relative to the opposition. So exposure is important according to the recent Tech Depts of FFA and Football Aus.

If Grazor is reading this, this may answer your post, where you suggested those results at underage tournaments should be important. Any coach knows at rep comps/tournaments, the players in one's team will desperately try and beat the opposition, regardless of whether the coach and coaching staff rep association/sub branches of Aus Football Feds, think it is a priority to win.

It is important to gauge the relative development though. One state Football Fed Aus SAP coach, A, I was under the tutelage of, took a state SAP team to Korea for a tournament. His sole interest was to gauge the technical prowess of his SAPs compared to Korea, Japan, Saudi and Iran at the same age. A was quite happy with the comparative technical prowess. However, there was a Sporting Lisbon underage team present as well, who were another technical level! The bar was raised!
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That's a departure from what was being said earlier unless I've misunderstood you. So the technical directors did care about qualifying for underage World Cups? That I agree with.

On that metric we've done very poorly. I'm hoping this U20 group can qualify and that other underage teams (particularly from the U20-U23s) qualify more regularly than we have recently.
 
Decentric said:
Thanks for that. Was really interested to read a report of the game.

Haven't been able to access any full matches.

Interesting that we faded?
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Its on YouTube. Well I felt that the team faded but it could also be that China stepped up. Their pressing meant that the midfield were not able to deliver the ball to the forwards as cleanly or as often. Also, China were able to split the defence a lot more and this is why China should rue those two missed opportunities.
 
verrelli said:
I'm so pumped for this game. I feel.like this is so huge for the game in this country, yet the average person would have no knowledge of this game. Literally a sudden death world cup qualifier. Come on lads!
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Not to undermine the Olympics but the U20 WC has developed into a big tournament and the only possible world cup before the full one. The Olympics bug me as the football tournament seems like a side event, rushed and away from the host city. Not to mention the picky selection policy and the club vs country clash which may be slightly more averted for players under 20.
 
That 11 pretty much on point you'd think? Very excited. Totally gapped the Saudi China game as the kicker app didn't show it.
 
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