Footballfirst Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Scotland?s U17 side featuring Hearts U17 goalkeeper, Jack Hamilton, unluckily went out of their UEFA European Championship qualifying group in Italy, yesterday, despite an unbeaten record. Jack featured in all three games and played a key role in their opening 0-0 draw with host team Italy. In their second match, Jack kept another clean sheet in a 2-0 win over Slovakia. In the final, ?winner takes all?, game against the Czech Republic, Scotland went 1-0 up in the first half before conceding an equaliser with 17 minutes to go which was enough to put the Czech side through to the Euro finals in Serbia in May. From the report on the Italy game: "But it was Scotland goalkeeper Jack Hamilton (Heart of Midlothian) who had to make the big stop of the match after he dived at the feet of Italy?s Andrea Conti to save." "The second half began well for Scotland and they continued to look dangerous in attack but as the game moved on, Italy crept back into the match and Hamilton had to produce a number of excellent saves to keep Scotland in the game." For results and match reports, check out the tournament page on the SFA Website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Treasurer Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Typical "glorious failure" by a Scotland team Good to hear that our tradition for producing top goalkeepers looks to be continuing though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamboinglasgow Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 On a sidenote, an interesting article in today Herald talking about how the SFA are unveiling their new performance strategy. Aim is to create faster, fitter and better players. Doing this through increasing the time kids play each year by copying Dundee United's and Celtic's model of combining football and education at elite academies (which clubs can apply to have the status.) Between the age of 4 and 11 the SFA will have the main responsibility for these kids, main change is to make the football in this age range run from March and November outside and during the winter months they will play futsal (a game which is very popular in Spain, Brazil, Holland and others were I have read before that Brazilian coaches hold it in high regard fir developing great technical skills as it is a game more about skill and quick thinking the physique.) http://www.heraldscotland.com:80/mobile/sport/more-scottish-football/scotland-must-now-grasp-thistle-1.1090395 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie-Brown Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 On a sidenote, an interesting article in today Herald talking about how the SFA are unveiling their new performance strategy. Aim is to create faster, fitter and better players. Doing this through increasing the time kids play each year by copying Dundee United's and Celtic's model of combining football and education at elite academies (which clubs can apply to have the status.) Between the age of 4 and 11 the SFA will have the main responsibility for these kids, main change is to make the football in this age range run from March and November outside and during the winter months they will play futsal (a game which is very popular in Spain, Brazil, Holland and others were I have read before that Brazilian coaches hold it in high regard fir developing great technical skills as it is a game more about skill and quick thinking the physique.) http://www.heraldscotland.com:80/mobile/sport/more-scottish-football/scotland-must-now-grasp-thistle-1.1090395 Football Associations and Clubs shouldn't be involved in Childrens schooling - what if they don't (or can't) progress as football players do they get booted out their school place as well as the team? thus meaning they have to find a school place as well as relaunch their football career elsewhere plus find new school friends and team mates etc ..... sounds like a bad idea and deal to me. Childrens education is too important to be linked to their footballing progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky_26 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Football Associations and Clubs shouldn't be involved in Childrens schooling - what if they don't (or can't) progress as football players do they get booted out their school place as well as the team? thus meaning they have to find a school place as well as relaunch their football career elsewhere plus find new school friends and team mates etc ..... sounds like a bad idea and deal to me. Childrens education is too important to be linked to their footballing progress. don't 100% agree with you, its Watford IIRC who have a tie up with a local secondary school where their players go to and they get extra training during the day but still do their schooling through a local comprehensive. I dont know anything about the celtic or dundee utd system for the schooling but something like this might work and if they dont make the grade as a footballer they still go to the same school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambosr1985 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 All this positivity is getting me down, am still trying to find reports on games the Under 19s lost heavily. However well done Mr Hamilton especially in keeping the Celtic goalie out of team, you are required for Under 17 duty as we lost heavily on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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