Everton Youth Teams Thread

[Nymzee]

 

[Zatara]

A chance to see the now injury free Doug Lukjanciks, as he and George Pickford are the only goalkeepers. He’s still only 15, it will be interesting to see if he claims the u18/19 GK position.

@boris What are you expecting from this chap over the season?

 

[blueblue]

An Everton Under-19s squad will travel to Oberndorf, Germany this Thursday 3 August to face a host of international opponents at the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe Cup.

In a condensed format, the young Blues’ first game of competition sees them take on Mainz on Friday evening (5.30pm BST), before playing Roma on Saturday afternoon (12.45pm BST), and then Freiburg (5.15pm BST) on Saturday evening.

Matchdays will be streamed live on the tournament's YouTube channel, which can be found by clicking here.

If the Everton team, led by Under-18s' Head Coach Leighton Baines, can progress past the group stage, they will compete in the semi-finals, and potentially, final on Sunday.

The tournament’s other group is made up of Schalke, Stuttgart, Palmeiras and Midtjylland.

Speaking to evertonfc.com, Baines is looking forward to seeing the young squad perform in a challenging environment, while believing his players will learn a lot from the opportunity.

“I’m excited to see our lads against different teams. You don’t always get to play these kinds of academies, so it’ll be good to see the different styles of play," he told evertonfc.com.

“The majority of lads will have been on tours before, so they’ll know some of what to expect, but each tour is different and will throw up challenges.”

The travelling squad will be a mix of Academy youngsters at different stages of their development, and Baines believes the weekend could provide a valuable experience – particularly for the first-year scholars.



“The new scholars will be going,” said Baines, explaining the make-up of his team. “They’ll join a squad that’s similar to what we’ve had this summer. Along with first and second-year scholars, there’ll be four lads from the Under-21s: Roman (Dixon), Frankie (Okoronkwo), Jenson (Metcalfe), and Isaac (Heath).

“For some of them, as first-year scholars playing against potentially a good level of first-year pros, it’ll be challenging. There will be a lot of learning, for sure.”

The young Blues’ squad for the 2023 Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe Cup is listed below:

Matthew Apter
Harrison Armstrong
Callum Bates
Jacob Beaumont-Clark
Jack Butler
Roman Dixon
George Finney
Harvey Foster
Isaac Heath
Douglass Lukjanciks
Daniel Maher
Jenson Metcalfe
Bradley Moonan
Francis Okoronkwo
Jack Patterson
George Pickford
Odin Samuels-Smith
Martin Sherif
Aled Thomas
Joshua Van Schoor

I see Onyango not included either.
I wonder if he is over age or just not considered part of the academy any more, similar for Dobbin.

 

[atrottel]

I see Onyango not included either.
I wonder if he is over age or just not considered part of the academy any more, similar for Dobbin.

He is 20.

 

[mightymoyes]

He is 20.

Played in same England youth teams together. Think there was someone else in same age group, Welch maybe?

 

[Nymzee]

Played in same England youth teams together. Think there was someone else in same age group, Welch maybe?

Might have a different D.O.B. thought for the cut off.

 

[blueloon]

Played in same England youth teams together. Think there was someone else in same age group, Welch maybe?

Yeah Dobbin , Onyango and Welch all played for England at u17 , although all born in the same year Welch was younger so in a different Scholar year.

 

[atrottel]

The commentators for the U-19 just said it is two 25-minute halves for the games.

Added: probably to make time for the important people to big themselves up. Wouldn't be an Austrian or German event if you didn't get three or four chairmen or mayors or businessmen thanking each other for being so wonderful at great length.

 

[Nymzee]

 

[oglop44]

Very interesting. Following the Tyrer plan.
Edit: I wonder if Jensen/Graham have been promoted to the 21s team, might explain their absence from the 19s tournament squad.

 

[mightymoyes]

Very interesting. Following the Tyrer plan.
Edit: I wonder if Jensen/Graham have been promoted to the 21s team, might explain their absence from the 19s tournament squad.

i think Graham might be too old now for u18s? not sure what cut off d.o.b is, though obviously he'd be still be eligible for this u19 tournament.

 

[atrottel]

Got the U-19 tournament on in the background. It's being played on a park pitch in the Black Forest and it's raining quite steadily.

The youth teams from some quite impressive clubs are here and the commentators were saying that there were scouts from all over Europe at the event. You would hope that we have one or two of ours checking out whether there is anyone worth picking up.

First game is Palmeiras (Sao Paolo) vs local team Stuttgart. (Currently 0-0 in second half.)
Then Schalke 04 vs Midtjylland from Denmark.
Next it is us up at 18:30 local time vs Mainz.
Last one tonight is Rome vs Freiburg, another local team.

 

[oglop44]

i think Graham might be too old now for u18s? not sure what cut off d.o.b is, though obviously he'd be still be eligible for this u19 tournament.

I seem to remember reading about a weird rule where it's u19 for goalies in the u18 league but not sure if we've ever really made use of it. Apologies if I've just made this up btw. It's a wisp of a memory that I cba googling.

 

[oglop44]

I seem to remember reading about a weird rule where it's u19 for goalies in the u18 league but not sure if we've ever really made use of it. Apologies if I've just made this up btw. It's a wisp of a memory that I cba googling.

I intrigued myself so went googling. Found it in last seasons handbook:

 

[mightymoyes]

U19 game not meant to be 5.30 kick off?