They have touched the ‘ Company of the Year. Eliminate the defending champion Real Madrid at home, going to a goal by the incredible upset. But winning 4-3 at the Santiago Bernabeu and send in flames rooting “merengue” already knows of consecration for that band of kids who answers to the name of Schalke 04. The future is to be written. Why Roberto Di Matteo has in his hands the “Best of Youth” of Europe.
THE COMPANY OF MADRID – It could be the result, but when we talk about enterprise we refer to other. The fact that Schalke 04 will be presented in Madrid with a starting lineup that included only one player over the 30 springs (the former from the grudge Klaas-Jan Huntelaar) and a mean age of 24.9 years. An age that is further decreased with the inputs in the field of Uchida, Goretzka and Sané, the boy capable of wetting their Champions League debut with a goal to be framed. Not bad for a class 1996. As you can well understand, however, is not an isolated case, but rather the result of a deliberate strategy of the company in Gelsenkirchen. Just think that the average age of the 35 players on the list Uefa is 23.51 years and there are only three players over 30.
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THE SECRET OF NURSERY – In Madrid took to the field three players born and trained by the Schalke. Captain Howedes, defender Matip and the starlet Meyer (born 1995). In total, Di Matteo has provision eleven players who have played the whole rigmarole starting from what we would term “chicks”. There are statements like Meyer, who starred in the national German youth, veterans like Howedes but also a luxury injured as Draxler. He joined Schalke in 2001, might come out next summer. But their weight in gold.
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Wellenreuther AND OTHERS – If you extend the concept of youth players trained by other clubs but arrived at Schalke in an age range that goes from 15 to 19 years, then we should say that at the Bernabeu if they are seen well 5. We must therefore add Wellenreuther and Sané. The first, Schalke 04 goalkeeper who reached the semifinals last Youth League losing to the eventual champion Barcelona, was purchased in 2013 by Karlsuher. Sané striker art son, was taken in 2005 from Wattenscheid 09 and has also spent three years at Bayer Leverkusen before returning to Schalke. If 11 are pure products of the youth sector, seven are boys belonging to the second category. The total is 18 out of 35.
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THE BEST OF YOUTH ‘CONTINUE – I do not have even retraced the footsteps of other famous products of the nursery of Gelsenkirchen as Mesut Ozil and Manuel Neuer, but the road is the right one. And most importantly, it seems apt strategy of the club. That can not yet compete through with Bayern Monaco and Borussia Dortmund, but may have found the best way to build the talents of the future. Growing them at home or buying them back when they are cheap because of the young age. A model that has not brought tangible results, but it deserves to be studied and imitated. Especially by our own club.
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- Real Madrid
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- Roberto Di Matteo
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