Keith Andrews
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830 appearances
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first heard Nov 2018
last heard 22 Aug
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I think in the late 90s, England kind of rethought about all how they do their coaching programs.
you know, their underage coaching and how to kind of produce the best players.
They used to coach, you know, back in the day, like Jimmy Carrick or Michael Owen goes to like Lillis Hall and then the elite players who literally train the elite players in France in the same, with Claire Fontaine and they've kind of gone to a more regionalised, a more regionalised way of going about things now.
It's interesting, like, again, not to bring it back to Stephen Kenny all the time, but when he became under-21 manager, he made like a very...
concerted effort to basically group all the best players no matter what age they were at the one level and now this is now more to do with his under 21 team and we were talking about this this morning actually about Troy Parrott about how he was 17 and he was playing for that under 21 team scored a brilliant goal against Sweden a few years ago and like Zach Albuzetti is also in that team but he was I think 22 at the time maybe and
So, yeah, we kind of group in all our best talent maybe together and we have a real go at it, let's say, on a 70 level, on a 19 level, and then the 16 and 18 teams are maybe more developmental.
Maybe that's some of the thinking behind it, but...
having more people involved and also, you know, you're going to have more opinions and maybe more strong personalities and more kind of characters.
But I think it can, is, is, is a good thing.
The people that are involved are all incredibly, you know, incredibly well researched in how their footballing education has, has been like, you've got like Noel Hunt, who obviously played a lot over in the UK and,
Graeme Garland, who we know very well from in here, and obviously he works here on Football Saturday, there's some commentaries, but the one thing about Graeme Garland, and this is not just because he's in here all the time, but when he's commenting on a game, you always learn something.
He always teaches you something about the game, like he was brilliant on the under-17 commentaries in RTE last year.
He's thoughtful.
him and Kyle Mullaney and also he knew obviously a lot of the players because he'd worked obviously Shamrock Rovers in underage capacity but I think having someone like him who understands the game from all facets from you know playing over in Scotland as well for years and years and also playing in the League of Ireland coaching here I think someone had his skill set
is an unbelievable asset to the FEI and it's really good that the FEI are trying to bring all these people together and use this wealth of experience and knowledge and brains.
This is something that Ger would be on about in the morning show that we don't do enough of.
that something has happened yeah you know there's like there's a structure there and then hopefully these people and there's intent behind it yeah and there's like a clear philosophy and you know a way of doing things like don't get me wrong I don't I don't think John Martin is going to be like right we're going to play like Barcelona in 2010 and we're going to you know we're going to play I hope not La Masia style football and you know that's the way we're going to it looks like we're going to have like some sort of idea of what Irish football is all about and
and it's something like when Jack Charlton came in at the time and his famous Desert Island Discs interviews like you know we want a team that kind of you know
kind of reflects the thoughts of what Irish people are like and I think that's only a good thing because the countries that are successful have a clear identity and it doesn't have to be the Spanish one where you keep ball possession or it doesn't have to be the Italian one of like kind of passion and catanaccio kind of style football of...
Eric Osaki or whoever it is.
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