Paul Pogba (114 Viewers)
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Well i dont see as much talented Italian players as german players. German national team or the u 21 / u 20 etc have been really successful lately. I agree though, that lots of them are overrated or treated as the next big thing. Also posted this a while back. But in overall I would say the talent pool on Germany right now is bigger than in Italy
German football has a big suprplus of talents right now, its not even a question of being better then Italy's right now, its a question of when will Italy come to the same realization that the Germans did after WC 2002, and start to focus on nurturing and develop talent and certain style as they did since then.
It paid off big time, and it was a national wide effort with every club investing alot time and money in their youth academy's. The end result is current reality of being peak standard of the footballing world right now as a NT with said young players that came from that effort. And still continue to produce, even if to varying quality differences.
It paid off big time, and it was a national wide effort with every club investing alot time and money in their youth academy's. The end result is current reality of being peak standard of the footballing world right now as a NT with said young players that came from that effort. And still continue to produce, even if to varying quality differences.
Italy is a big footie nation that despite in a downward or completely mismanagement, they will still remain reasonably good. But I look at Azzurri's call ups, and disagree, they are too far away for me liking for sure in individual quality right now. Only younger players who can be considered top/quality in their positions right now are Verratti, Darmian, Rugani and Berardi for me (possibly Romagnoli, but havent seen him enough). Rest look extremely bleak.
I did not talk about the league (outside of Bayern), which will never become that much of an international league, I barely know anyone who knows fans of bundesliga fans even (occasional Bayern&dortmund fans you encounter, but rare). Everything I mentionned was the extremely good work they have done with their football, youth level as a national effort, and very very very healthy system they have financially and with the positive fan culture with nonstop filled stadiums without being complete sell-outs ala EPL. They have overtaken the Spanish as the focal point of the sport right now, let see how long they can keep it up. They been almost there type of top team with their soft mentality golden generation, lets see if they can make a dynasty of it or not.