Andrew Stokes

Top week with an excellent group of staff & players at @PinatarArena with highly competitive fixtures against 🇵🇱 & 🇩🇰 Another enjoyable camp that provided a great learning opportunity for all involved #Excellence #Family #Respect 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿MU18

FT | 🇫🇷 0-0 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cymru secure a point against the top seeds in their opening qualifier 💪

@AndyMorri5on Get well soon Andy. Best wishes for a speedy recovery 👍

Will touch base every couple of weeks, long road ahead. 👊🙏👊

Time flies 😅

Wow almost 12 years ago 🤯 😂 Amazing journey of drive, hard work, believe and talent @WilliamOsula 🔥

Craig Bellamy and his assistant Piet Cremers led a training session with our Cymru MU18 squad at Dragon Park this week. 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@Eliot_Richards Thoughts & wishes are with you mate, take strength from close ones around you & the mentality you have 👊 Speedy recovery ❤️‍🩹

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⏱ 14' | Clarke whips in a dangerous free-kick and Kircough nods into the bottom corner from inside the penalty area. 💚 1-1 🃏 | #FGRWOK

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The only goal we’ll concern ourselves with today 😮‍💨 Kieran Evans, that was outrageous 🙌 #WeAreMerthyr | #OurTownOurClub

@footballontnt @tntsports @discoveryplusUK Drink it in @GJDTaylor 😂

INCREDIBLE END TO THE GAME 🔥 Emi Buendia wins it for Aston Villa in the 95th minute! @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK

Alex Inglethorpe, Liverpool’s Academy Director, is blunt about early ranking, it’s almost meaningless. What a player is at 9, 12 or 13 tells you almost nothing about what they can become. ➠ Trent Alexander-Arnold not number one in his group. ➠ Connor Bradley not number one in his group. ➠ Jarell Quansah not number one in his group at that time. And you could go through all of them. Every now and again you see the obvious one, Jude Bellingham at Birmingham and Rooney at Everton. Clear standouts who stayed standouts. They exist, but they’re the exception. ⇢ Harry Kane shows the reality. At Tottenham at 13 he was middle of the group at best. Not on the podium. Gold and silver medalist Harry Kane wasn’t anywhere near it according to Alex Inglethorpe when he was at Tottenham Academy then. Then Brad Friedel came in one day and said “he finishes like Robbie Fowler”. ➝ No backlift. ➝ Hits the ball hard. ➝ Finds corners. That single comment shifted the perspective. These players didn’t announce themselves as prodigies, they grew. They changed physically, mentally, technically, socially. Someone recognised the direction they were moving in, not the snapshot they were frozen in. That’s often (not always) core coaching failure at youth level, adults obsess over the podium instead of the trajectory. ⁃ The best at 12 is often the earliest developer. ⁃ The middle is often the one with the longer runway. ⁃ The worst is often the one carrying the biggest biological gap. Alex Inglethorpe’s message is brutal but accurate: 🔴 Stop judging children by where they sit in the pack. 🔴 Start judging them by what their behaviours, mindset and habits suggest they might become.

WOW. We just had the anthem at the rugby without the instraments for the first time in years, and it was genuinely incredible. Wish I was there ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @S4C

“The whole community will benefit, the whole of Denbigh will benefit.” Bydd Dinbych yn cynnal rhai o gemau pencampwriaeth Euro dan 19 2026 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Preparations for the 2026 #U19EURO continue as @DenbighTownFC hosted three games during the international break ⚽️

⏰ FT | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 7-1 🇲🇰 CYMRU BOYS PUTTING ON A SHOW 🎩 💻 fawales.co/CymMac

@altrinchamfc @NL_Enterprise Love it @NeilGibson22 👊⚽️

🗣️ Neil Gibson on today's third @NL_Enterprise win in a row 💪 #YourTownYourClub

FT | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 1-1 🇺🇸 (5-4) An impressive victory for Cymru following spot kicks 🎯

Despite being deep in preparation for upcoming crucial World Cup qualifiers, Craig Bellamy was eager to get the lowdown on how the nation's next generation performed on Wednesday night ⚽️ The news was positive, as a last-minute goal sealed a 3-2 win over Japan! 🙌 #BBCFootball

FT | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 3-2 🇯🇵 Cruz Allen’s late strike wins it for Cymru 💪

A busy month of international football awaits for Cymru, with the men's seniors, U21s and U19s in action. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 📺 Here's where you can watch all the games ⤵️