U-17s qualifiers

[superdave]

Does anyone know how the United guys did in their EURO qualifiers?

 

[PS18]

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/under17/fixturesresults/index.html

all results so far up there. Amos and Welbeck with England, Galbraith with Scotland, McCormack with ROI, Corry Evans with NI, think that's it unless Eikrem's with Norway.

 

[oskarutd]

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/under17/fixturesresults/index.html

all results so far up there. Amos and Welbeck with England, Galbraith with Scotland, McCormack with ROI, Corry Evans with NI, think that's it unless Eikrem's with Norway.

Chris Curran and Conor Devlin for NI as well. Eikrem was with the original squad acoording to www.football.no .

 

[Elliott]

are curran and devlin highly rated? neither seem to be a starter for NI u17
(i know the question is a bit wank)

 

[PS18]

NI seem to rotate their u17 team a lot - both Curran and Devlin started against Iceland on 19/3 and then were on the bench for the game against Russia (can't find the lineup for the third game in that tournament). they're both still pretty young anyway.

http://ourweecountry.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=17001&hl=curran - fairly interesting thread about Curran on an NI football forum

 

[FlawlessThaw]

Chris Curran and Conor Devlin are part of this northern irish revolution going on at the United academy, Strange stuff.

 

[Elliott]

thanks, ps18. didn't know devlin was a 'keeper and figured curran was another N irish center-half from the looks of him. sounds like a sound prospect. only been playing for 3 years and already at united. maybe i'll dust off my old boots as well

 

[FlawlessThaw]

quick side question, but if you were chris curran who would you pick to play for NI or ROI?

 

[PS18]

couldn't really say, details in that thread are pretty sketchy about exactly where he was born, and without asking him you can't know whether he 'feels' more irish or northern irish. that'd presumably be the key factor in deciding.

if it came down to a straight choice of which he thought he'd have more success with, still quite hard to say - the Republic have the more impressive recent history, more players at Premiership level (i'd imagine), a bigger population to draw their players from but they seem constantly messed up behind the scenes whereas Norn Iron seem to have quite an impressive youth system in place and are the better team of the two at this point in time.

all a long-winded way of saying i've no idea, really.

 

[oskarutd]

thanks, ps18. didn't know devlin was a 'keeper and figured curran was another N irish center-half from the looks of him. sounds like a sound prospect. only been playing for 3 years and already at united. maybe i'll dust off my old boots as well

He is a winger/striker, chris is.

 

[Elliott]

yeah, i read the forum thingy. btw, oskar - do you have any additional info on the other players coming this summer? like the swiss...winger was it? cheers

 

[oskarutd]

yeah, i read the forum thingy. btw, oskar - do you have any additional info on the other players coming this summer? like the swiss...winger was it? cheers

Yes, he is a winger, but still no name. The staff at Carrington are working hard at stopping information coming out to the fans.

 

[andersj]

Do you know is age? Might it be Remo Staubli?

 

[oskarutd]

Do you know is age? Might it be Remo Staubli?

he is 15-16, will become 17 before middle of August 2008.

 

[andersj]

1998? What the hell happend?

 

[PS18]

is this the Remo Staubli of FC Zurich? everywhere seems to suggest he was born in 1988, which would make him 19 this year.