The future is great, so they say, but with St George's Park up and running and the new FA DNA in full use, plus Gareth Southgate in charge, can we assume that the future is bright for English football. I have written about this before recently but time moves on and as I drove 200 odd miles down the M1 today, I listened to the great news that our premium U20s have beaten ITALY 3-1 from 0-1 down, in the FIFA World Cup semi-final and are due to play Venezuela on Sunday in the Final at Suwon. This is the first time an English side has reached a WC Final since 1966. The squad has won 8 and drawn 1 fixtures this season.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2017/jun/08/italy-v-england-under-20-world-cup-semi-final-live
The other U20s, the "stiffs", in Toulon have been 5 out of 5 wins in the local tournament and in the semi-final have just beaten Scotland 3-0.
Our U19s are in a training camp preparing for their UEFA tournament in Georgia. They have had wins over Norway, Spain, Belarus, Greece, Bulgaria, the Netherlands and Germany thus far, drawn 1 and lost 2 on the way.
The U18s playing in Qatar have won 4 fixtures against Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
The U17s lost their UEFA tournament final in Croatia, to Spain on penalties 1-4 after a 2-2 draw. The Spaniards equalised in the final seconds of the 90 minutes, to force the shoot out.On their way to tournament final the English squad has scored 13 goals to 2 during the competition. This season the U17s have gone won 8 and lost 1 games in their age group.
Our Women have gone W3 D3 L4 at U17, W8 D1 L1 at U19 and have had wins against Brazil and USA at U20.
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