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Putting the choice of having an additional national team fielded in the hands of the citizens of that given nation doesn't make sense?

People of the nation not having a choice in the matter makes more sense? No nation should be allowed to have a U24 team or U19 team purely because Micro nations may or may not be onboard with it?

That doesn't make sense to me.

If a majority of Bosnians, Chinese, Americans, and French amongst MANY other nations do have a majority of respective citizens vote in favor of having that U24 team for example, they still shouldn't be able to have one and have a tournament because other nations like South Africa Don't want one?

How does that make sense especially when Utopian teams have been given dual nationality players in an attempt to help Micro Nations? All nations shouldn't be restricted in having a U24 or U19 competition because some micro nations might not want to participate in it. If your nation doesn't want to compete in it you wouldn't be forced to hence the voting process per nation which opens the door for ANY nation to be involved but NO nation be forced to be involved.

Something like a U24 team would make more sense than a U19 team. At 24, most players are not making their National Team (for larger nations at least) but are very skilled players still. I'd say most large nation National Team players enter the NT scene around 26-28, so U24 would be a nice balance between the U21 NT and Senior NT. Even this idea though, would cause problems for micro nations as the senior NT would want some of the U24 players on the senior team.

I'm all for a U24 team. It would also give people an incentive to train the 7 and 8 potential players, coz at least these players have an extra 3 years to play at NT level. These players would almost never make it into the NT, and are often overlooked by trainers because of their lower potential.

A U19 team would be pretty redundant coz we know most players are training 1v1 Forwards in their first season. Even if they aren't there is also not enough time frame for any player to achieve any useful builds so it's very highly reliant on starting skills.

Agreed.

Show my P-Allstars and Superstars some love

I like u24

Last edited by canci at 4/28/2023 10:28:05 AM

Pro U21 and U24 (23)

Last edited by Elliss at 5/1/2023 11:35:18 AM

I like your suggestion with the U24 team. Some superstar-potential players might still make that team, whereas even in Korea (where I'm involved a lot and have trained multiple NT-players) it's almost impossible to get a superstart potential into the NT. The idea with 18/19y olds doesn't really make any sense to me. Doesn't really have much to do with training since it's mainly the players with high starting skills that would make those teams ... with the 24 idea, that would be nice. Only problem: how would we play world-cup, european/ asian/ american etc. tournaments? Would a National team manager be elected for 3 seasons instead of two if world-cup only took place every 3 seasons?

Sorry I'm kinda lost, but... Why 3 seasons?