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Ex-Arsenal youth leaves his club after being diagnosed with rare brain condition

Sweden midfielder Kristoffer Olsson has mutually agreed to end his contract with FC Midtjylland, just over a year after the diagnosis of an acute brain disorder. The 29-year-old Olsson, who graduated from the Arsenal Academy in 2013, was rehabilitated after losing consciousness in his house on February 20 last year and was diagnosed with various […]

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Meet the 15-year-old England youth wonderkid being tracked by Man City and Barca

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Sometimes it's a single touch. A feint in this way, a movement that. A sudden gear. It is not required for coaches to recognize a special talent and in Leicester they have been very enthusiastic about Jeremy Monga for a while. Monga will not be 16 to July, but he has already been to the

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How Eyeball is revolutionising youth scouting: Co-founder Benjamin Balkin plans to expand into South America next

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A revolution is happening in youth couting and it changes football. “Today, on the platform, there are 250,000 players,” Benjamin Balkin tells Sky Sports. “Last year there was 130,000. Next year there will be half a million.” Balkin is the co-founder of Eyeball, a platform that you may never have heard of, but a platform

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Sir Ratcliffe’s Man United job cuts ‘left youth coaches and children in tears’

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Man United Youth Coaches and players were reportedly left in tears in the midst of job losses at the club's academy, claimed a new report. Earlier this week, the club announced plans to make more redundancies, where the staff would be expected to learn their fate in April. The redundancies follows 250 job reductions made

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Former Man United youth star denied dream return to club in backroom role

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Dan Ashworth's shock sacking from Manchester United has had a knock-on effect with Michael Appleton no longer returning to his former club as loan manager. Ashworth had lined up Appleton to succeed Les Parry in the loans department and possibly take on a coaching role after moving from Newcastle in July to become United's new

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