National Youth Championship, it’s the u15 and u16 state by state champs and is where most of the Joey scouting is done 

I see, 1 team per state or 1 per npl club?

Its mad macnicol has only seen 12 minutes of a league football. Not saying he should start, but 20 minute sub every other game surely

Bologni looks very physically mature for the age group. 

Come on 1 more goal, this performance deserves it

Might get fast tracked then

Defensively we have looked chaotic and pouros, that should improve as this tournament goes on

Poor from Oskar (GK) . Gotta grab that. He’s looked a bit shaky with high balls. First goalie was solid

Mozzed it. They get a consolation goal for 4-2. Doesn't mean anything. Hugely impressive performance by us. I'm really encouraged. 

Man 2 late goals 

In any case fantastic performance and hopefully can get a nit more organized in defence for next game 4-3 against switzerland well done

Definitely tired by the end. We win 4-3. Poor defending at times and brilliant defending with Kasumovic and Necovski. 

Up next is Inter Milan U17, some of these boys will be playing guys 2-3 years older than them in that again 14 year old vs 17 year old. Big test. Treffiletti plays against U17 Inter at club level in Italy. That will be a huge undertaking to beat them but I think with the best lineup we could make some noise. 

I have a stronger understanding on what I think our best lineup is now. 

Overall solid and we get the win. 

Overall no different to what I saw in the first half, that was impressive the couple late conceded probably masked otherwise a very good performance given it was their hit out as a team plenty of good talent on display. 

October. I hope they have an Australian based camp in the offseason just because there is a lot of talent at that age in Australia and only so many spots, would be good to order the talent with a big 30-man squad. 

Who would u have as our best xi?

When is the next game?

U17 world cup every year is a godsend

How many asian teams qualify?

I’m sure they will find more talent out there, the more players to choose from the better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_FIFA_U-17_World_Cup

48 teams with no assignments yet by the looks. I'm ok with this being annual as Australia needs more chance to play and look at youth we have. The Europeans have plenty of their own games against each other while we are still dwindling in comparison. The last few years have improved immensely though with the number of camps and games and coverage of our youth teams.

I think we will make real noise at this tournament. 

If memory serves - 1 per state + a NSW Country and NSW City, and same for Vic?

UPDATE: This was the list of teams from the last edition:

1. Victoria Blue
2. Western Australia
3. Queensland White
4. NSW Metro White
5. Capital Football
6. Queensland Maroon
7. NSW Country
8. Victoria White
9. NSW Metro Blue
10. Northern Territory
11. South Australia
12. Northern NSW
13. Tasmania

Review of the game! 

https://www.socceroos.com.au/news/subway-joeys-seal-3-1-friendly-win-over-switzerland-u-16

The three lineups we used:

Starting XI (Quarters 1 and 2): 12.Jai Ajanovic (GK); 3.Hayden Thomas, 4.Jayden Necovski (C), 2. Malual Nichola, 5.Christian Pullella; 10.Nickolas Alfaro, 16.James Houridis, 22.Quinn MacNicol; 20.Jordan Graoroski, 19.Antonio Arena, 11.Amlani Tatu 

Starting XI (Quarter 3): 1.Oskar Von Schrenk (GK); 21.Rhys Williams, 4.Jayden Necovski, 2.Malual Nichola, 13.Besian Kutleshi; 15.Alex Bolton, 17. Alexi Houridis, 8.Danilo Treffiletti; 18.Max Anastasio, 9.Marcus Neill, 11.Amlani Tatu

Starting XI (Quarter 4):  1.Oskar Von Schrenk (GK); 21.Rhys Williams, 14.Feyzo Kasumovic, 15.Alex Bolton, 13.Besian Kutleshi; 6.Gianluca Okon, 17. Alexi Houridis, 8.Danilo Treffiletti; 18.Max Anastasio, 23.David Bolongi, 7.Noah Slunjski

who is your xi if you were to choose a best xi?

Okay I've rewatched the game and I'll choose a best XI from the performances against U-16 Switzerland as I think our best 11 aren't all here at this tournament. 

. Jai Ajanovic
. Rhys Williams
. Jayden Necovski
. Feyzo Kasumovic
. Christian Pullella
. Gianluca Okon
. Danilo Treffiletti 
. Quinn MacNicol
. Max Anastasio
. David Bolongi
. Amlani Tatu

Special shoutout to Besian Kutleshi, Nickolas Alfaro, James and Alexi Houridis who were all strong. 

Obviously this isn't the final form but this is the sort of lineup I'd like to see against U17 Inter Milan. Though, we may need to be a bit more defensive as this lineup is quite attacking. 

Some youth football milestones

This time our joeys have 12 players who have played senior npl or higher, last time is was 2

We have a record number of u23 a league minutes this season i believe

Half of the top 10 in a league goal contributions for u18s are from this season and all 10 on the list are u23

In the a league era i count 5 players before now that held down a strating spot in decent euro leagues before 23 and 2 of them were nationalized: ryan, souttar, oar, leckie and gersbach.
Right now we have as many the rest of our history combined with triantis circati neiwenhof, yazbek, bos

A strong xi and more training means we should fix our organizational mistakes a tad

It got me thinking when the NC was first introduced it was in 2010 then the second version came out in 2014 so these kids would be around 5 years old for the 2nd version, its pretty much the whole pathway from under 5s whilst other generations from the early 2000s generation would have gone through it partially or 75% of it.

And you could make an argument some of these players in this squad we rarely develop or even never had developed previously, so its quite interesting to see fruit of labour from it after all these years.

And its not say there are other factors too especially the introduction of the a-league academies which would have been a factor and has been quite beneficial to Oz player development in recent years, I think the NSD and a-league expansion into new areas with academies could make a big difference in expanding the player pool even more.

IranKunda!

Indeed the dark ages of youth development are finally ending

How do i watch the olyroos in england? Will it be on youtube if there is no broadcaster

Paramount. My hunch is AFC Youtube with Czech or Slovakia VPN like Asian Cup. I expect the AFC to have a Youtube set up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_AFC_U-23_Asian_Cup#Broadcasting

hmm does it mean i can use vpn and watch tenplay? Prefer the youtube channel if available

another worldie from Irankunda lol... its becoming a joke now our best australian player aint playing for any of the national teams its fucking insane.

he's not far off Kewell in my opinion.