Lionel Messi - Aged 10

[Anonymous]

A 10 year old like that in the video would never go on to become the player Messi is today. The coaches in this country would of coached it out to him and would most probably have put him left back due to his size.

This is why i will be singing Viva Espana in the summer!

^^^^^This.

All you have to do is look at the players thats after coming out of Barcelonas youth academy and starting in there first team.

Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Bojan, Busquests ect Top players!

Richards, Etuhu, Etuhu, Bradley Wright-Phillips PMSL

 

[Petetheblu]

Cheer Pasta I realise this, but also none of then have his talent either.

My point was that we would never get a 10 year old Messi due to laws, so Barca and yes they are special, have an advantage over us.

Also I do agree with you about the British coaches taking away that free flying raw talent and leaving English footballers less attractive to watch than that of certain countries.

Lee Bradbury was English by the way....... :)

I don't agree with that, we have had foriegn lads in our academy at a young age. Messi moved to Spain when he was 13, we've had Irish lads at that age and Spanish and French lads at 14-15.

We don't find the Messi's of this world because of how football is taught in this country. If City scouts had been watching that game, they would of thought he was a good player but too small to do anything and would of chosen the biggest lad there or the one who showed the most strength. I've remember seeing a lad play for Liverpool U11 or U12 side in midfield against one of the Sheffield sides and he tore them to pieces with his passing and vision, i thought he was going to be some player in the future, i saw him again two years later this time he started on the bench and came on at right back, i asked some of the parents what had happend to him and they said he hadn't developed physically. HE WAS 13 FFS, had another 6-7 years to develop and he was being pushed out for some freak of a lad who was the same size as me who was hopeless. It's the same up and down the country, bag of shite!

p.s Bradbury was like De Stefano in that sunny game against Blackpool at home first game of the season ;-)

I watched that game, if I remember we got knocked out on penalties and Lee missed his. :(

14 and 15 years old would be a year to late if they were indeed the next Messi.

The Irish lad would probably get through at 13 due to him being British?

 

[bluegonads]

dont think he was that special..... made some schoolboy errors















:p

 

[adelaideblue]

too one footed

 

[Spindash]

^^^^^This.

All you have to do is look at the players thats after coming out of Barcelonas youth academy and starting in there first team.

Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Bojan, Busquests ect Top players!

Richards, Etuhu, Etuhu, Bradley Wright-Phillips PMSL

Quite why you have a constant downer on City's academy I don't know, but I'm sure there have been some less than stellar players from Barcelona's.

"PMSL"

City's academy has overachieved considering what it is - the academy of a mid-table/relegation-threatened team (until now). Barcelona have been one of the biggest clubs in the world for decades. Feel free to carry on rubbishing City, though.

 

[Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot]

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Messi age 5 :)

Still better than me in this video.

 

[bizzbo]

geniunely PMSL at the way he played as a ten year old. forget the sublime skills, it's the nonchalant way in which he used them. a true football brain, even at that age. richards and co have enough skills. they just need to realise this is a game of brain, as opposed to brawn. outwitting your opponent over 90 minutes is always the ultimate goal.

 

[Dubbed The New Wenger]

Great thread.

Even at that age? What a player. Makes me like him all the more.
Can't believe Ronaldo was being compared to him. They're daylights apart.

 

[Project]

The way he controlled that high ball just past a minute in was majestic. Better than most Premier League footballs could do today.