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Been around enough grassroots football to believe we have boys who are small in height and/or weight in our country that could be the norm here.
An abundance of talent. But the reason it doesn’t happen is they get older and get told they are not big enough or strong enough.
The reason is the game as the older becomes all about physicality.
The ball mastery taught at primary age is inferior to physicality at secondary age and then it becomes the norm.
It’s all pro youth care about and it allows for so many young small footballers to slip through the net.
It demands wide scale change from top to bottom.
DesmundOris@Desmund_Oris
The famous Number 8 in La Masia everybody is talking about because of his height. Hugo Galdeano. La Masia doesn’t care about your height. Where do they see this guys from wtf 😳
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A big thank you to everyone who took part in our @AberdeenFCYouth Katoni Festival on Sunday at the Sports Village 🙌
The annual Katoni Cup returns on Saturday 14th February 🏆
🔗 bit.ly/49ypoH9
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Teams are all set and ready to kick off today’s Katoni Engineering Festival at Aberdeen Sports Village! ⚪️🔴⚪️🔴
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2025 was a great year with lots of highs with Oliver starting @PerformSchools 🏴 and Finlay settling into @HibernianFC Academy. Thanks to everyone that’s helped the lads on their journeys this year. Excited to see what 2026 brings 🙌⚽️🏴
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While subjects like the relative age effect (RAE) and early academy engagement continue to divide opinions on youth development, one small footballing nation has tackled these issue head on.
In Denmark, professional academies cannot register players until U13 which encourages them to work with a grassroots partner club.
But, from U10, coaches from the professional clubs can start to provide an additional training session every week for selected players from their partner clubs (at no additional cost to the child).
Here comes the niche part: there is a 50% rule employed to protect relatively younger players, which means that 50% of the players in these centres have to be born in Q3 and Q4. This, in turn, means the clubs have to push their grassroots partner clubs not to deselect these players but to continue to develop them.
It should also be noted that there must be a ratio of at least 1 paid coach per 8 players at this age group.
No wonder FIFA highlighted the Danish youth development pathway as an environment where every talent can reach their goals and fulfil their potential.🇩🇰👏
@TheS_Resource @dbulandshold @DanishScout_ #RAE #Denmark
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This is much needed in Scottish academy football and great to help late maturers but still long way to go as the vast majority of the players in the academy system are quarter 1 early maturing players. Fine if you are in the system but talent getting missed before this….
Scottish FA@ScottishFA
Club Academy Scotland ran the largest bio-banding festival in youth football last month. Bio-banding sees late maturers play against younger players that are a closer physical match, while early maturing players are matched with older players. ➡️ scotfa.co/BioBanding
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We are delighted to announce the arrival of our beautiful girl Freya Catherine Lindsay Lawson 🩷
Born on Sunday 2nd November weighing 6lbs 3oz.
We are absolutely besotted with her 🥰
Ps we can’t find the instruction manual so if anyone has a spare…😉
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Don’t think scrapping SFA Performance Schools is the way to go.Surely you keep an intake of footballers coming through system until you have something else in place for everyone.This report highlights talk of helping late developers, futsal, RAE👍but not clear on timescales….
Scottish FA@ScottishFA
NEWS | We have commissioned a review of Youth Development, and specifically the player development pathway, in advance of the publication of a new 10-year strategic plan. ➡️ Read more, including the full review and an Executive Summary: scotfa.co/youthreview
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Filming new @ScottishFA Coach Education content @Oriamscotland today.
Brilliant to have the @BroHighOfficial S1&2 performance players along to boost the sessions. Top effort 👏🏼
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Great 2 day tournament hosted by @CelticFC with the young @HibernianFC lads winning the final 1-0 against Celtic. Loads of good, competitive games. Wee man loving his football 🙌⚽️ 🏆
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The latest in-take to our JD @PerformSchools were at Hampden Park for the 2025 launch this week 🙌
The youngsters will be looking to follow in the footsteps of Billy Gilmour, Leah Eddie, and more - tap below to read more about the programme ⤵️
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Proud day watching Oliver at the @PerformSchools SFA launch at Hampden.He deserves this amazing opportunity and to play ⚽️ at high school every day. Work hard Oliver and be the best you can be, enjoy your football and continue to dream and see where it takes you. 🏴
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SFA JD PERFORMANCE SCHOOL LAUNCH 2025 🚀🏴
It was fantastic to welcome so many young players to Hampden today as they begin their four-year journey within the @ScottishFA @PerformSchools programme.
Wishing all the players the very best of luck—embrace and be your best! ⚽️🏴
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@MarcMcGhee91 @HibernianFC Thanks Marc. Hope you are doing good 👍⚽️
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Next chapter begins for Finlay as he signs for @HibernianFC Academy. Special night signing on clubs 150th anniversary. A club close to home means he can focus on ⚽️ and more importantly be a 10 year old kid 💚
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@RoddySandeman13 @HibernianFC All the best Roddy. Great kid ⚽️
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