You are warned because we won't allow our major threads to be derailed with off topic arguments. Everyone posting in this thread is well aware of the varying contexts of quality and prospects of each league. If you wish to create a thread about UEFA league coefficients you are welcome to do so, but this is the Aussies Abroad thread, where the exploits of Aussies abroad are reported to those that are interested.

And as for "some Youth Italian league" player:



Jog on. Final warning.

That's a shame, obviously Ange hasn't taken much of a shine to them either.

does that rule apply to everyone? just people you agree with ?

Panos Armenikas still a regular fixture for Udinese Primavera, coming on in the 73rd minute against Inter.

It applies to everyone. This is the Aussies abroad thread where we talk about Aussies abroad without prejudice. This thread is an institution. It's not anti-a-league or pro-euro snobbery. Just info.

lol Another thread derail.

Anyone got a list of players likely to see action over the weekend. Someone normally posts this, really helps with the streaming. Will report back what I see.

It really is. I think Oli has been in and out of his team, so I don't know how he is performing there. I've appreciated his efforts for the National Team though, I thought he looked settled whenever he played. Any role that Dario could play for the National Team under Ange is full of competition with other players. He has a few caps, but has never managed to hold a spot down. I was really hoping that he could replicate his Adelaide United form at Sion, I thought he was dominating the A league for a period and really looked like he could step into a role with the National Team.

where would this said list be accessible? would love to see it.

It's in this thread. :)

Wasn't that many Aussies playing overseas overnight.

Will be back to normal after the Asian Cup :D

Not sure about Oli I think vidosic is the better of the two. Vidosic has 2 goals and 5 assists in the last 10 games he played before the break he is flourishing finally playing up the middle as an AM as opposed to a lot of wing last season where he had 6 goals and 5 assists from 30 odd games. Im not sure how well he would be suited to Anges 4-3-3 his best position in that formation may actually be the wing as opposed to AM. If we went 4-2-3-1 I think he would be in with a better shot as we have lots of players who can play as one of two holders but few who are out and out AM's

Awesome thanks. I didn't realise how many young guys were on aleague rosters.

Cheers for that, Link. It's kind of a surprise hearing those stats of Dario, as his name just doesn't seem to pop up much in updates. But the fact that he is playing centrally accounts for those stats - whenever he played as an AM at Adelaide he seemed to perform at his most consistent. He dominated heaps of games for United. And I totally agree on the point of not fitting into Ange's 4-3-3. There is a decent amount of competition on the wing, which requires players who can defend fiercely also.

Odds are stacked against your little hero Pala.

Hope the kid makes it but if i'm a betting man, he'll be in the Serie B when he turns pro.

Lazio have already turned down some loan offers from Serie B clubs for him, and even if he does have his senior debut on loan, so what?

Apparently Eli Babalj is trialling with Sainz's club, PEC Zwolle.

Odd considering they have a better strike rate than AZ

Funny thing about him, a few years ago (2012) when OSAussies (VoiceofReason) started his OSAussies website etc, I was regularly in contact with him. One day in Moscow I saw a Spartak Moscow youth tournament (had many European clubs competing from Barcelona's youth team included). Oikonomidis was playing for Atlanta and scored against Spartak, I found out he was Australian. I informed VoiceofReason (July 2012), who got in contact with him for his website, a few months later The World Game was all over it :lol:

;)

This was the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K30NZmVQyIQ

Edited by electroschokk: 30/1/2015 09:25:44 PM

Very good news.

Not saying on loan. I mean he will be offloaded to a Serie B side for good in the next 12 months, i'm sure of it.

Look at Lazio, they have 1 player on their senior list who was developed there. All the other Italian players developed at other clubs (most not even Serie A).

The Serie A also has the lowest number of club trained players out of any league in Europe across the 3 tiers with just 8.4%. http://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/pdf/ds2014_abstract-2.pdf

So suffice to say the odds are stacked heavily against young Chris.

Nice!

tell you what if 10% of our youth players made a contract with a top 5 league I'd be pretty happy

it seems italy is 3rd best out of the big 5 leagues in that list

Germany is better and france is the best

Edited by grazorblade: 30/1/2015 10:59:09 PM

Actually Serie A is the lowest out of Big 5:

See here: http://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/pdf/wp86_eng.pdf

lol Partizan in second place, where is adrtho.

Think you will find the kid has been called up to the Lazio first team for their game against Cesena this weekend if reports coming out of Italy are true.

ikonomodis just retweeted someone from 3 hrs ago saying congrats for getting called up to the first team for a second time

Yeah that's all I can see, seems Lazio haven't released their squad for the game yet. That's great news if so.

Gavin De Niese started and played for 55 minutes for River Plate against Tigres in the Chivas Cup, a U18's comp in Mexico featuring the USA and Mexico U18's teams and a load of clubs from the Americas including Boca Juniors, Cruzeiro, Urawa Reds and a bunch of Mexican clubs.

Always interesting seeing where kids choose to develop.

River have an academy in Melbourne. Wouldn't be shocked if he came from an Australian based academy.