@@EMETRL They are brilliant. Its hard to see which 13-15 year old will make it and which not. So of course a few players they don't take will also make it. Thats normal in every academy. But they are more successful than most others. A 15 year old can be totally different with 18 so its hard to see the potential.
@@JustFun-fe7ux exactly. You see it in almost every sport. For every cant miss prospect, theres plenty who late bloom. And one coach may see something another may not. It's sometimes just dumb luck, fate, whatever you wanna call it that some shine and others don't.
@@hazelryner8778 in the 2013 NBA draft a flop from the a great basketball school was considered the best whilst a young greek-nigerian who had the best physical capabilities was overlooked. 7 years on he is arguably the best player in the world the other has been out of the league since his second year.
@Tifo Football can you pls make a video about transfers subject to medical checks? Did ever a transfer went bust bec of a medical check even when that player played all matches in that season?
tapping the talent pool of an entire continent (africa) has certainly bolstered the no# of elite players in France's national team. Non-colonial nations can't really compete with this.
@@Julesgio - not sure what point any of you are attempting to make? having high numbers of french born footballers of african descent is precisely the result of post-colonial immigration & citizenship policies. france has the cream of the crop of multiple nations, representing hundreds of millions of human beings. seems unfair in nation-based competition.
@@bw4500 Ethnic origin and a nation are two different things. France as always been a multicultural country. We're all from different origins and still a nation, listen to the players and how proud they are to be on the national team. Brazil is also a multicultural nation. But I don't hear anyone talking about it.
99% of the winning team have French parents, born in france, raised in france, educated in france, french are their native language.. because they have black skin doesn't mean they are african, you're jealous or ignorant.
Up there with that dumb American talk show host who said “Africa won the World Cup” because a lot of the players were of African heritage. Ignoring that they were born and raised in France, the heritage of all the players is made up of well over 10 countries. I’d you put together all the “European” heritage players it win the World Cup all the time.
@@David-hv8rp Nonsense. 87% of the France team that won the 2018 World Cup were immigrants or the sons of immigrants. Only two players are what could even be called fully French and they are Pavard and Thauvin. The truth is that I am jealous that so many players can just come and play for a country, even if they have no links to it whatsoever. It's great that you can just be born in some place and that makes you automatically that nationality.
@@MacDonagh Immigrants? seriously? when you are born in a country AND your parents have both the french nationality AND you never spent over 6 month in an other country when you was young, you are an immigrant? for what i remenber, Umtiti was the only one who was born in africa.. Pavard/thauvin what about Lloris and griezmann if u watch only the color? what about Mbappé and Lemar who are (half) from french islands? Sons of immigrants maybe yes, but regarding their life, there is no naturalisation in this team, just french guys born french, raised in france in french school and trained in france like every other french kids..
David bollocks to that. If Japan fielded exclusively players who were birthed from African immigrants, we wouldn’t call them Japanese, would we? Because that’s what I saw in a France u17 game. An entire line up of young black boys who are probably eligible for their parents home countries being USED AND STOLEN FOR CYNICALLY WINNING TOURNAMENTS. Hell, even the players that end up playing for the national side don’t feel “french” whatever the fuck that means. "It's my parents' country, it's in my heart. But good after sporting, it's true that I will play in French team. I will be always present for the French team. Then it's more for the sporting side, because Algeria is my country, here, my parents come from there. After, France ... It's more sporty, that's it." That’s by Karim Benzema BTW. What a Frenchman! Nvm that he played for France for SPORTING reasons. Nvm that he’s trying to play for Algeria because he got blacklisted for trying to blackmail one of his fellow teammates. Very cool btw. It’s funny how anyone can adopt a country when it’s convenient for their own goals and then throw their toys out of the prank when they get found out, ain’t it? It’s pretty fucking simple. I adhere to the bloodline argument. If you don’t have any bloodline or link to country, you don’t play for it. The amount of players that France has stolen from Africa is Competitive colonialism and it’s a damn disgrace that it’s been allowed to go on. Of course, all of the major players in world football are doing it like England, Spain and Germany because it’s all about that competitive edge. Never mind that these countries have been actively stealing and poaching players from all sorts of countries who don’t have the resources to fend for their own interests. Ronaldo Viera for instance should have no right to play for the England U21s, since his twin brother plays for Guinea-Bissau and neither of them were born in England. And yet, there it is. Same thing with Spain stealing another player from Guinea-Bissau, Ansu Fati. The Spanish government immediately give Fati citizenship because He’s a good player and could be vital for Spain, robbing Guinea-Bissau of another top class player. And that’s just ONE ☝🏼 tiny African country. Its not racist to point out the clear inequality of stealing talent from other countries that would surely benefit from having top drawer talent and the cast iron fact that there hasn’t been one single African team that has went on to reach the semi finals in the entire history of the World Cup tells it’s own story. It’s positively sickening
I really hope ligue 1 gets more investment like the premier league and bundesliga, the worlds best footballing country should be able to keep that talent for longer in their domestic league
Snare If it’s because of the Valbuena thing then that’s ridiculous seeing as he is miles off the French team but even if Benzema could he wouldn’t make it in
@@YoungMulaBaby808 wtf? Did you saw him last season at Real Madrid? He was phenomenal, of course he could make the French NT he's better than Griezmann
Clairefontaine, Ajax Academy and La Masia. The closest this world will ever achieve to Beauxbatons, Durmstrang and Hogwarts. The places where the magic begins.
Small precision. Players are selected at the age of 12 usually. Then stay until they're ~15, before (hopefully) joining the pro club that signs them during that 3 year span. Some get signed at the age of 12, still train at Clairefontaine over those 3 years but play with their club for matches on the weekend. (I've been at the selection)
I remember when i played Football Manager 2012. Every March i always look at their new youngster because they always provide world class wonderkid and buy it for free 🤣🤣🤣
Albin Joseph Roy, even IF they did; it would'nt make a difference....... & also do me a favour by refraining from asking why and embarrasing me and your own self because we all know why & whatnot.
@JustFun I don't think quality players is the key, the model anyways emphasized on 13-15 year olds. A lot changes in that period of training till someone is 17 . The problem is the government of India wouldn't even deploy this kind of program for football they've already done it for cricket and hockey but they've not encouraged football much
@Askell Tomlin Learn history than you would know why these countries have a lot of immigrants. And they see themselves as french so there's no problem about it.
@Sylvester Banini He named france so he did talk about them. He said "get kids from africa". Which france didn't do. They have a lot of immigrants because they where a colonial power. Many of these immigrants are there since a long time and are more french than african. So i see them as french. Otherwise they would represent another country:)
1998 defence is not made with Frank Leboeuf but Laurent Blanc. Frank Leboeuf only played the final (and 3rd group match cause France was already qualified at 1st place) because Blanc was sent off against Croatia
Samuel Berredo yes, but since they are a small country, it's going to take some time for them to make better players, almost all of their current squad is over the age of 30
Man... That 2000 Euro 22 man squad is crazily invincible. All of them are having "club legend" as their lowest resume (except one player). The most complete roster in international football champions ever.
Juan Manuel Torres England's setup at St.Georges' park at the start of the last decade is quite impressive. The results in the age group tournaments in the last few years show that their efforts are beginning to bearing fruit. However, the talent in England is handicapped by the fact that not many sides in the top flight are able to give youngsters adequate and regular gametime. It is here that other major European leagues are particularly stand out.
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England did have lilleshall before st George's park where elite football age groups went and got developed.... started around early 80s before clairefontaine. so bit strange to suggest infrastructure for st George's park came from INF.
The INF Vichy started in 1972, that's when we reformed football formation in France, the Clairefontaine center was built later between 1984 and 1988 because the program had grown. Clairefontaine became iconic mostly because it is Les Bleus basecamp, however it was not the start of new philosophy of football in France
The French are the best political manipulators, and also the same times, best football actors in the world. Simply put, Lionel Messi should have come from Clairefontaine, not La Masia.
World Cup 1998: Guivarch not scoring a single goal in World Cup. France 1998: Hold my beer...... (20 years later) World Cup 2018: Giroud not scoring a single goal in World Cup. France 2018: Hold my beer......
France has played 5 finals of a major international tournament in the last 20 years (Euro or World cup)… just sayin, they're the best team in the world over that period, and will be for the next 20. World cup winner in 1998, and 2018, World cup finalist in 2006 (and they were by far the best team), Euro winner in 2000, and Euro finalist in 2016 (again being the best team), they failed once or twice (2002, 2010), they could have done a great performance in the 2014 World cup, but they played Germany in quarter lost 1-0 in a very close game against the next world champion. So overall, no national team come even close to that level of performance since two decades… and if they win the Euro 2021, it's over.
The brazil team of the 1970’s is arguably the greatest to have ever played football and I doubt you could name a player that was developed outside of brazil, much less in europe.
I know this is a very sensitive subject but I really find it fascinating that France (according to wikipedia) is made up out of 85% caucasians, yet there are barely any caucasian french footballers. Why is that? Do the white french not play football or are they just bad at it? Against Croatia in the world cup final 2018 there were 6 caucasians in the match day squad (out of 23). That's 26%. Want to clarify that there's nothing wrong with it at all and that they have incredible footballers but it's fascinating that it's such a vast difference between country and football.
It’s pretty simple. France can not only call upon their own countrymen but that of several other countries, what with loads of immigration from Algeria and various African countries that speak French. As soon as immigrants get their papers, they are officially French. Even if they are not, either culturally or ethnically. France are a fraud country who directly benefit off Africa by stealing their players from countries that would surely benefited from them. The fact that Africa hasn’t had a single team reach the semi finals of the World Cup in its history is an indicator of how far countries like France will go to DIRECTLY BENEFIT FROM THE LABOUR OF BLACKS in order to get a competitive advantage. Hell, they aren’t even the only country that pulls this weird fuckshit and it’s why football is a fucking joke that is tilted for the major powers of the game and puts every other country at a disadvantage. Take the example of Ansu Fati, a Barcelona wonderkid who was born in Guinea-Bissau, but was so good, the Spanish government gave him citizenship so he could be eligible to play for the Spanish national team. Let’s stick with Guinea-Bissau again with Ronaldo Vieira, who’s playing for the England u21s at the moment while his twin brother plays for Guinea-Bissau. That’s just two fantastic players that have been ROBBED by bigger countries. It’s an utter disgrace that certain players, and I include all players, who don’t share a genetic link or a bloodline claim to a country can play for it. Deco for instance should’ve never been allowed to play for Portugal and neither should’ve Diego Costa been able to play for Spain. It’s utter nonsense.
Alex made it easy to understand, but I will develop a little bit, and more interesting than bullshit above my comment... Most of French immigrants or with immigrant background live in the suburbs of big cities (banlieues in French, which means litteraly suburbs but has generally a negative connotation here in France, yet some banlieues are very rich in the west of Paris for example). There, football is by far the most popular sport, and the easiest way to get out (legally 😉) of their bad social condition, with also show-business (cinema, humor, music...). That's why you find an oveerrepresentation of non-Caucasian people in this team, but you have to put in mind that non-Caucasian are pretty much invisible in politics, research, medicine, big companies (no one leads a big company, except maybe the creator of Airness), theatre... On the contrary, you don't see all the French born players who plays for others countries : 14 in Algeria WC2014 (Mahrez, Feghouli, Brahimi...) , 9 in Tunisia WC 2018 (Hassen, Ait Bennasser, Khazri...) , 8 in Sénégal WC 2018 (Koulibaly, Moussa Sow...) or 7 in Morocco WC 2018 (Benatia, Belhanda...) , and we can add Aubameyang, Pepe, Willy Boly... Like in South Africa where football team is Black and Rugby team is (mostly) white, as in France actually!
yep, our biggest players, are all from the working classes, since the 30's and professionalism, being a country of immigration since the end of the 19th century, the majority of them were children of immigrants, like Raymond Kopa (Poland), Michel Platini (Italy) or Zinedine Zidane (Algeria) . In France we are used to it, it's a problem for others, generally, at each world cup, from people who don't care about football in normal times and few guys (even in France) who use the National French team for political purposes.
The ironic thing about TRUE artists is that they say a lot of shit that doesn't make sense to normal people but only to themselves with the intent to simplify an explanation, when in true sense it does the complete opposite. Case scenario: Jean-Claude Lefargue saying, "If it is a sad role, he (actor) has to be sad. In a match, It is the same thing. If you have a really good actor, you cannot just give him a small role you have to make more of him".
You cannot build a decent team if you lose your best players every season. Players and clubs are equally responsible for this phenomenon. The former because they wanna sign big contracts and the latter to pay the taxes which are sky high compared to the other leagues. Check Lyon first 11 if they were able to keep their best players: Lacazette (off to Arsenal) Fekir (Sevilla) Depay Ndombele (Tottenham) Aouar Tolisso (Bayern) Mendy (Real) Umtiti (Barcelona) Denayer Dubois Lopes Not the same isn't it? I won't even start with Monaco. Add the lack of good coaches and you've got the french league!
@@DieTreppenwitz Ligue 1 has a few clubs in the same crop as BVB09 such as Marseille, PSG, Saint Étienne or maybe Lyon but no powerhouses like Bayern or Manchester United unfortunately. Imo the main problem is that the clubs are forced to keep their checkbook balanced. If they don't the DNCG (created in 1984 i call it big brother) can relegate them in the inferiors divisions, preventing them from signing new players or even promoting academy's players. Therefore they will sell their best rated players every windows. The big leagues clubs (not only the EPL) knows that and are taking advantage of it. On the other hand, thanks to the DNCG the French clubs are all solvents. The lack of big coaches who will be able to make the most talented players to improve, the absence of big institutions to make them dream and the need to make good money and win the champions league motivates the like of Paul Pogba or Ousmane Dembele to move abroad.
Paris Lyon Marseille Rennes are all very good clubs at the moment and Saint Étienne and Nantes avec a rich history i think if french clubs would sell like Portuguese top teams they would be in better state but they dont do it as well
France wouldn’t be anywhere without the immigrants that form the lower class and have kids that hone their talent by kicking it from dusk until dawn. African countries would be behemoths on the world stage if they had the proper infrastructure to nurture talents.
And African national teams would be worse if the players weren't formed and playing in Europe. Stop with this victimising rethoric, in the 80s and before France was already strong.
4:20 The defensive line was Thuram, Dessailly, Lizarazu and BLANC. Not Leboeuf who was just Blanc's replacement for the final because Blanc was suspended.
If every country built a world class academy then went with those players in the world cup there would be carnage but I guess some countries can never really do it!
impossible, not every country has nearly 70 million people, also alot of kids growing up in France invest everything in football because they don't see another way to make money, that's not the case for many others.
you guys should do a video on Watford and their recent transfer policy of signing young south American players, like richarlison, peñaranda, cucho Hernandez, Estupiñan, etc. I think it would be really interesting to see their system of being a mid/lower table club and having so many players out on loan
And in Romania we have this academy in every city, that s why we have hagi, popescu and more, but after the fallen of communism, this academy goes to people who destroy and make supermarkets, hotels, and many more on that land. Not invested in academy.
Not exactly. Our first game in 98 world cup was only his third with the national team. He was considered as a rookie and closed to not go at the world cup at all. Ba and Anelka were expected to go instead. He scored during the first stage and did well, but was on the bench against Italy and Brazil. Two years later he was considered as our best offensive option after a great season in Arsenal, and we adapt our way of playing to him and Anelka. We played with 3 defensive midfielder in 98, and only 2 in 2000.
@@mkpvid Henry did score in the penalty shoot-outs against Italy in quarter-final. The very last penalty shoot-out session won by France in both world cups and euros.
To those who ask about L1 weakness : it s all about money and most precisly our tax system. If a player wants to get the same salary than in England, Spain or Italy, the french has to pay him way more to compensate his futur taxes. Neymar is a good instance. Paris, with the money from Qatar, is the only club able to pay way more than english or spanish clubs to compensate higher taxes the players will pay in France. Things would be different with a common European tax system.
4:20 Actually Laurent Blanc was ahead of Frank Leboeuf. Frank Leboeuf only got to play in Final because of Laurent Blanc's red card in the semi final against Croatia
Not when they are traded to rich leagues, EPL number one hunting grounds is in France but that is also the reason why England national team success is hurting... Money baby!
They train and learn everything at Clairefontaine then go and play in the club the week-end. At Clairefontaine, they do not learn only everything about football but they follow class with math, french , history,...
@manny Like I said, It's one of the largest ones in Europe. In fact, no other academy in Europe has so many graduates in the Top 5 European leagues at this moment.
kanabalize yeah that’s why England have so much silver... oh wait. Get over it mate, English players are overrated because of the marketing of their league. And yes, the PL isn’t the best, only the most marketed league.
@Green Mills Team for team - id say La Liga is the best. If you look at the tactical aspect and the technically aspect. Even the small teams can out play Real and Barcelona. So its a much more competative league...but the last year we have seen a switch from spanish team in the finals of european cups to english teams. But id still say La Liga is by a notch better than PL. With that said Liverpool must be the best team right now, worldwide.
@@theoneaboveall6751 it definitely is. Only league where a bottom placed team can beat a top team at any given time. It doesn't look like that because liverpool are so good right now, but it is one of the most unpredictable leagues.
