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Friday 20 July 2007

Best young players in Canberra this week

AUSTRALIA’S NEXT GENERATION OF STARS COMPETE IN CANBERRA

Australia’s finest young talent will compete in Canberra over the next six days with eight State Institute squads competing in the ACT Academy of Sport Institute Challenge under the watchful eye of Qantas Joeys coach Martyn Crook and assistant coach Jean-Paul de Marigny.

The Academy squads primarily consist of players born in 1990 and 1991 with the later players eligible for the Qantas Joeys who will commence their long road towards the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup next month when the squad competes in the Toyota International Youth Tournament in Japan.

The Qantas Joeys will commence their qualifying campaign for the FIFA U-17 World Cup in October where six nations will compete for two available berths at next year’s AFC U-16 Championship.

ACTAS NTC CHALLENGE JULY 2007 DRAW
DAY 1 20th July 3pm QAS v SASI 3pm VIS v NSWIS
5pm WAIS v ACTAS 5pm NNSWIS v TIS

DAY 2 21st July 3pm SASI v ACTAS 3pm NSWIS v NNSWIS
5pm WAIS v QAS 5pm TIS v VIS

DAY 3 22nd July 3pm SASI v WAIS 3pm NSWIS v TIS
5pm QAS v ACTAS 5pm VIS v NNSWIS

DAY 4 23rd July REST DAY

DAY 5 24th July 9am ACTAS v VIS 9 am NSWIS v SASI11am TIS v QAS 11 am NNSWIS v WAIS

DAY 6 25th July 9am QAS v VIS 9 am NNSWIS v SASI11am TIS v ACTAS 11 am WAIS v NSWIS

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

how sure are you that the players competing there are the best?

A)0-33% B) 33-66% c)66-100%

Eamonn said...

Well you'd have to be pretty confident that baring the odd player already overseas or injured and (possibly the odd late developerthese would have to be the best.

You might have disputes over a player left out, football is always about opinions.

So unless you can suggest otherwise I reckon these are the best current players in this age group in the country.

Convince me I'm wrong:)

Anonymous said...

Are you up to date with the results from this tournament? If you could keep us all informed that would be really appreciated, thanks!

Also do you know anything more about the AFC U-16's championship and about selections for that. will the team be selected from this years U-15's at Nationals or something along those lines?

Thanks for you time, and info.

Eamonn said...

I'll see if I can get the results.

Presumably the Under 16's would come from this years nationals and indeed this weeks games in Canberra.

But I have no idea, only guessing. I'll try and found out.