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Sky Sports News carried out an extensive investigation into player welfare across academy football. On episode 1 of Chasing the Dream, Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola and many more discuss the impossible journey to professional football.
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39 Comments
More stats bollox! I won't be letting my little boy watch this. I want him to keep dreaming.
Constantly going on about stuff from 30 years ago. Sky Sports really is just a nostalgia channel for plastic utd fans these days.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 11:45
Greatest ever thank you for everything boss
And Liverpool just keep banging out academy players 👏
How many more times can the class of 92 be milked anymore
“Just let them play”
Also…
“You’re not good enough”
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Fine line between expectation and reality. Sometimes, it can often be environment. If you work, you can find a place that fits.
With hard work, sometimes that dream requires going a circuitous route – see Robertson, who’s won it all and on course to be Scotland’s record caps holder. Had to go to amateur and back again.
Can we have keane and fergusson together on sky 😂
Application is everything. When you have nothing to begin with except your talent and the fire in your belly to succeed then you will, but if you think you are the real McCoy then you will not have the same passion to succeed. Unfortunately most youngsters fall into the latter category.
Can remember when Pulis was at Stoke back in the prem … Didn’t care at all about the academy and never used any of the lads from the u18s. Probably the worst gaffer you could use for this documentary 😂
Sir alex we miss you😢❤
5:06
18:10 so many fail to understand this, same with school… teaching how to be a good person… don't care about your math skills if you are a bad person.. this is important to me as a teacher
And the deluded parents who destroy a child because their thinking of the money only
Even coaches who send players out to break opponents legs get a hearing!
Tough? Walker talking like he's down the mines or on the rigs lol
Elite
Don’t tell them there not good enough then ffs 🤦♀️
Who's the guy on the far right of the thumbnail??
Turned it off when it mentioned the women
The kids give up their GCSE years to dedicate themselves to the clubs. There needs to be a program where the kids that are rejected are given full funding for education to get themselves what they've given up for the cause. Everything they've learnt can be redirected into coaching qualifications / sports science etc. needs to be turned into a positive for them. Along with immediate counselling to cope with the transition.
Scottish youth system is a joke😢
I believe the lesson here is for academies to brief and maybe even assess parents first. To let them know that their child won't be a club player and to use this as a happy experience for their child. For the child playing, play for fun and work at it to enjoy the experience. This is their happy place and forget about dreams of so many years in the future which are longer than you've lived. Live play and kearn for today.
Is that Tony Pulis.. Ex stoke city manager? 😀😀😀
How many professional footballers have ever existed and still exist. Compare that to lottery winners??
"The league was more British back then" – I would love to get back to those days. Days when Englishmen were playing in English league.
0:56 it helps when you're a mason.
People just cant get enough of us
You should feature myles Lewis skelly's mum in this series she set up no1fanclub to support parents of academy players to teach them things the clubs don't support them with ie contracts agents boot deals etc.
Such crazy stats of success. I was at Rover's academy. Dislocated my knee at 16, dropped. Scouted again broke my ankle 2nd game back. Game over. Sometimes it's just not meant to be.
Never understood a word.
Does ManU pay sky for coverage?
To hear Tony Pauli’s’ voice crack at 6:26 is tear jerking. 🥺
If only <1% from the academy get to play in the Premier League, then where do the players in the prem come from then? Just curious.
The king of kings Sir Alex
Great documentary But you should have been making docs years ago
You have the infrastructure & most sports fans watch YouTube more than Tv
Do more docs
Grazie bros lol
Nice thumbnail 🔥
Its crazy how they all saying the similar things. Just shows to be elite you have to be a particular mindset
Dear fans, i have a question: is football entertainment or business?