Age Quote by Gareth Southgate

I recently started my own NP17 Academy within Liverpool Community College, which gives 16-19-year-old girls an opportunity to embark on a sports career, whether…

— Nikita Parris

There are quite a lot of young players around now with undoubted talent who get stuck in academies at big clubs.

— James Maddison

For me at 16 and 17 years old, I wasn't even playing for the academy teams. I hardly played in the starting XI for…

— Bernardo Silva

I would say the youth systems in Germany have impressed me the most and how they grow their youth players into full professionals.

— Christian Pulisic

I have sat in Red Bull scouting meetings here in Salzburg and they have only talked about 15 and 16 year olds. That's the…

— Jesse Marsch

Our job is to find players younger, where they are able to play from 11 years old and grow up playing the game. Rather…

— Masai Ujiri

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is…

— Arsene Wenger

You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't…

— Bobby Orr

Ultimately, playing at international level, at all age groups, is good for a player's development, and that is good for clubs, too.

— Gareth Southgate

When I was playing for Chelsea and Arsenal, we had a young team but also experienced players. You still have space for the youngsters…

— Nicolas Anelka

Even when I was growing up in the academy there were always young players getting chances - Jack Wilshere, Alex Iwobi - so it…

— Emile Smith Rowe

I could have started playing professional at 16, 17 quite easily. For my position, I was far better than a lot of people around…

— Sol Campbell