Subject: Youth 02 October

Two pulls today, both with 6-week talent (on an excellent junior coach). Unfortunately they're both 19 )-: I'm keeping Khouri until I can "pace him up" some; Ewing will be TL'ed and/or sacked (is he going to get me a week's salary on a transfer? I doubt it). Ewing was a 19-week solid (3664), Khouri was a 19-week excellent (6661). I kinda like Khouri, may wind up keeping him if I decide to train defender next season...

Idi Ewing, age: 19

club: Gresley Rovers, country: Canada
value: 65 200 C$, wage: 1 160 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

hopeless stamina tragic keeper
poor pace adequate defender
adequate technique average playmaker
hopeless passing adequate striker

Ibrahim Khouri, age: 19

club: Gresley Rovers, country: Canada
value: 123 600 C$, wage: 1 840 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

unsatisfactory stamina hopeless keeper
unsatisfactory pace adequate defender
excellent technique poor playmaker
adequate passing hopeless striker

got 2 this week

Was excellent
Francesco Corazza, age: 19
club: T syndicated, country: Canada
value: 112 800 C$, wage: 1 640 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

poor stamina tragic keeper
good pace average defender
hopeless technique poor playmaker
adequate passing solid striker


was solid
Khalil Ellison, age: 20
club: T syndicated, country: Canada
value: 58 800 C$, wage: 1 080 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

unsatisfactory stamina tragic keeper
average pace average defender
hopeless technique average playmaker
average passing average striker

not really impressed with either.

I got one that's not even worth mentioning :)

hehe me too :p

By the way, what's with all the Idi, Ibrahim, Khalil names? And I have a Shakir and a Said in my training camp. You'd think that Canada was 75% Muslim...(I have no problem with Muslims, in fact I considered becoming one at one point, I just think it's a bit unrepresentative having this many Arabic names on the Canadian list...)

it seems like many Canadians also have the last names of Andrychuck and Weeks and such.. seen a hand full of those too.

In Saskatoon, there's nothing at all unusual about Andreychuck, my wife is a Swidzinski (-:

Nikola Galindo, age: 19
club: Real Hawkes, country: Canada
value: 114 800 C$, wage: 1 680 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline


unsatisfactory stamina tragic keeper
hopeless pace adequate defender
solid technique adequate playmaker
solid passing poor striker

formidable youth talent 6-5-6-6-6-5

Cameron Halsted, age: 19
club: Real Hawkes, country: Canada
value: 74 800 C$, wage: 1 240 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline


hopeless stamina hopeless keeper
good pace unsatisfactory defender
average technique adequate playmaker
average passing poor striker


very good youth talent 5-6-5-5-6

The names (obviously) are random. In any given sample one might get a sense things are disproportionate (especially in small samples ... like 5 :D).

Here are the first names of the 24 youths currently in my system. One might get the sense looking at this list that there are no Arabic names in the database.

Kevan, Corey, Angelo, David, Drew, Yves, Miguel, Wayne, Robert, Simeon
Tomasz, Tag, Gordon, Sean, Julian, Jamie, Eduardo, Stephen, Kenny, Diogo
Stewart, Trenton, Domingo, Geoff

As I've said before, if there is a name that you are weary of, let me know and I will give it a rest.

Around 80 % of my juniors since I started playing sokker had french names

french is our second language, cant blame them for that.

outstanding youth

Nevio Blondin, age: 19

club: BC Angels, country: Canada
value: 142 400 C$, wage: 1 960 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

hopeless stamina hopeless keeper
solid pace tragic defender
adequate technique adequate playmaker
solid passing good striker

incredible one

Matteo Desmarais, age: 19

club: BC Angels, country: Canada
value: 216 800 C$, wage: 2 720 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

unsatisfactory stamina poor keeper
solid pace solid defender
poor technique good playmaker
excellent passing weak striker
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