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2020/21 Under 23's, U19's, Development ... thread

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30 minutes ago, Foxy-Lady said:

What happened to Oliver Bosworth?  Won academy player of the year and never seems to feature anywhere...?!?

Academy player of the year seems to be a cursed title... it didn't work well either for Conor Tee

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38 minutes ago, Shobbers said:

The lads are playing tonight at Seagrave in an u17's cup match - hope they've got their thermals on!

Will Alves and Chris Popov got some minutes for the U18's at the weekend, stepping up from the U16's.

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1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

So we do actually have a youth team that can win games!

The 2004 year seem a good crop but are split across u16s and u18s so we don't often get them playing together as a team. Even if the best u16s play up with the u18s, the best of the 2004's old enough to be in the u18s are often with the u23s! So this is a great competition for us. Semi final here we come.

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https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-give-brilliant-technician-5267815

 

Leicester City give 'brilliant technician' first-team chance after going toe-to-toe with stars
The Thai-born French youth international impressed Brendan Rodgers in first-team training after catching the eye with his performances for the club's development squad


ByJordan Blackwell
13:48, 6 APR 2021

Young Leicester City midfielder Thanawat Suengchitthawon was granted a first-team chance after matching his senior team-mates in training.

The Thai-born French youth international was named among the substitutes for Saturday’s defeat to Manchester City, becoming the fifth development squad player to be included in a first-team matchday squad this calendar year, after Vontae Daley-Campbell, Sidnei Tavares, Khanya Leshabela, and Shane Flynn.


Suengchitthawon is a “brilliant technician”, according to City manager Brendan Rodgers, who has been taking a closer look at the 21-year-old in first-team training for a couple of months.

Standing shy of 5ft 6ins, Suengchitthawon may not have the physical build to compete with the club’s top players but Rodgers says he has proven he has the ability, and wanted to give his development a small boost with a first taste of senior football.


“You’ll probably have seen a bit of him in the Under-23s.” Rodgers said. “He scored a couple of goals recently against Manchester United.

“He’s an attacking midfield player. He’s a brilliant technician. He’s small in stature, but plays big on the field.

“He has great quality and we see him playing on a daily basis with our top players and he copes and doesn’t look out of place. It’s a little nudge for his development.

“He’s a gifted player. We’ve had a lot of the younger players involved with us, some have had game-time, starting or coming off the bench, and he’s one of the young guys who has been training with us.


“He’s a top player technically so we’ll see how he develops.”

While many of City’s recent graduates from the development squad have come through years of academy football with the club, Suengchitthawon is a recent addition, having arrived from French side AS Nancy on a free transfer last summer.

Born in Thailand, he moved to France as a young boy and earned a place in Nancy’s academy aged 13 after impressing for his local side in the east of the country.


He moved up the age groups and was captaining their reserve side when he was offered a professional deal by City last summer, with Nancy only putting an amateur contract on the table.


At City, the former France Under-17 international has been a regular for Steve Beaglehole’s Under-23s, playing behind the striker or out wide, scoring four goals in 13 appearances, including a brace in a 4-2 win over Manchester United in January. Since February, he has been training with the first team.

“Great to be on the bench of the first team for the first time despite the disappointing result,” Suengchitthawon wrote on social media after Saturday’s game.

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Imagine how massive it would be for King Power for us to have a Thai born player regularly in the first team squad, would be a hell of a marketing tool over in Thailand

 

Shame the LCFC website won’t actually let you put his full name in for shirt printing :thumbdown:

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3 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Imagine how massive it would be for King Power for us to have a Thai born player regularly in the first team squad, would be a hell of a marketing tool over in Thailand

 

Shame the LCFC website won’t actually let you put his full name in for shirt printing :thumbdown:

Do they still bring Thai lads over to use the academy facilities? Thought it was done as part of some tv show.

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21 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Alves goal and one of his assists on his Instagram story, sent the opposition all over the fcukin place 

That right back going to be having nightmares, absolutely rinsed him haha

 

His close ball control and quick turns remind me of Maddison

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17 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Do they still bring Thai lads over to use the academy facilities? Thought it was done as part of some tv show.

I haven’t seen anything about it for a while (although I imagine that is due covid) probably start up again when everything has settled down

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1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

Imagine how massive it would be for King Power for us to have a Thai born player regularly in the first team squad, would be a hell of a marketing tool over in Thailand

Inb4 he wants to wait for a France senior call up and doesnt want to play for Thailandlol

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So the young lad was born in Thailand, but has represented France at youth level. Does anyone know where his allegiances lie? 
Without disrespecting Thai football, I can’t think of a single Thai footballer to be playing in any of the big leagues around the world.

You’d have to assume that if he wanted to play international football for Thailand, being in a Premier League squad would have to get him a call up at the very least.

Thailand are doing okay in their qualifying group for the World Cup (still a couple more group stages before qualification) but if they win their final 3 games they could still go through - and qualify for the Asian Cup at the same time.

He could be the difference in some close games.

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12 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

So the young lad was born in Thailand, but has represented France at youth level. Does anyone know where his allegiances lie? 
Without disrespecting Thai football, I can’t think of a single Thai footballer to be playing in any of the big leagues around the world.

You’d have to assume that if he wanted to play international football for Thailand, being in a Premier League squad would have to get him a call up at the very least.

Thailand are doing okay in their qualifying group for the World Cup (still a couple more group stages before qualification) but if they win their final 3 games they could still go through - and qualify for the Asian Cup at the same time.

He could be the difference in some close games.

I imagine the chance to represent France at youth level is something as a young player you don’t really turn down if the chance is offered to you. Doesn’t appear to have played for the youth teams since 2017 though so you would think if he wanted an international career he would look at representing Thailand

 

Only player I can really think of is Kawin Thamsatchanan who is backup keeper at Leuven, was actually their record signing for just over £1m when he first joined them

 

But you are correct, they don’t really have any player presence outside of Thailand, their entire national team is made up of players from the Thai league except one player from Japans 2nd tier

 

We should definitely keep an eye on 18 year old Suphanat Mueanta from Buriram United, kid is quality on Football Manager :ph34r:

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13 hours ago, Foxes04 said:

4-2 win. 1 goal and 2 assists for Alves

I've just watched them on his dad's FB page (is this you?! lol) and am so excited by Will Alves development. He's really exciting to watch. I fancy him to come all the way through to the first team in time.

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3 hours ago, SydenhamFox said:

I've just watched them on his dad's FB page (is this you?! lol) and am so excited by Will Alves development. He's really exciting to watch. I fancy him to come all the way through to the first team in time.

unfortunately not 🤣 you’d all know by now if it was lol

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