QUOTE (Fillipo Simone @ Jun 30 2007, 08:49 PM)
We rarely produce some good players? Well, thats not completely true, only for the past five years, and that makes me worry much. I`ve mentioned the players our school created,...the last player who came out of our football school to wake much expectations in me was Francesco Coco, and he had really the true potential,..but never turned into something.
Well, its cause of that stupid youth system in Italy,...Spain has a much more organized and better solution with does B teams,..
And what about Paolo Sammarco? Nobody mentioning him here,...but he might be good,..
Well, Oddo was a Milan youth product .. And you have several of them playing in Serie A. Except they never reached the standards of AC Milan.
You have to distinguish first of what caliber a team Milan maintains and of what caliber a team Ajax maintains. Then you can come to the conclusion, that Milan is not a football school, but a top tier club that competes for the BIGGEST of prizes. Ajax on the other hand, though still rich in history, is for the most part a football school with targets below that of a Milan stature club.
Then you have to examine why can't Milan have a school in the lower divisions to bring out these talents. Well, Milan does have talent in it's lower ranks .. dst would point out Di Gennaro and several others would claim this guy can play and that kid has potential, etc ... Still, they are not ready to play for Milan. Whilst, if they were in Ajax, they would have already found their way to at least the bench of the first team (IMG:
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p.s. I do see the future n the hands of Christian and Daniel Maldini (IMG:
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