Norway is it? Well I think you will reap the rewards for this approach down the road. Players with advantageous physical attributes will always have those. They just have to learn to not be reliant on those attributes as they become less a factor as they get older. Unless you're a goalie.
Tangentially I was speaking to a goal keeping coach a few months back, we were commenting on the massive size of this 13yr old kid playing in goal at a match we were watching and he said they are testing kids who want to be goalies before they let them into the academies, and can predict with some accuracy as to how tall they will get. He said they are disregarding any kid who won't make 6'5 straight off the bat.
Norway is it? Well I think you will reap the rewards for this approach down the road. Players with advantageous physical attributes will always have those. They just have to learn to not be reliant on those attributes as they become less a factor as they get older. Unless you're a goalie.
Tangentially I was speaking to a goal keeping coach a few months back, we were commenting on the massive size of this 13yr old kid playing in goal at a match we were watching and he said they are testing kids who want to be goalies before they let them into the academies, and can predict with some accuracy as to how tall they will get. He said they are disregarding any kid who won't make 6'5 straight off the bat.
Ahaha
"Our youth academy" is referring to the might Tottenham Hotspur youth academy, not Norway's
Norway is no further along than England I think, although some positive moves are being voiced it's all muddled in with the same junk you get in England. I don't particularly care though, I care much more about Spurs than about the Norwegian national team.
I'm 6'5, but even at age 15 I was still not taller than 5'6 or something. There's no way they could have predicted that. My brother is a good 6'' shorter than me.
I'm 6'5, but even at age 15 I was still not taller than 5'6 or something. There's no way they could have predicted that. My brother is a good 6'' shorter than me.
It's not so much to do with your height. Foot size is a better indicator.
women look at foot size and make assumptions about other things too![]()
women look at foot size and make assumptions about other things too![]()