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Well, the other day I was reviewing some national teams from various countries, not to know what were the tactics they used, or which players they had, but only to make a collection of the ages of the players belonging to each selection. I came to the conclusion that almost every players from national teams of most countries have at least 28 years or more (except some cases in which players can reach the selection with 25/26 years). In most cases, the best selections are made by players aged 30 on average.

The only selection that exists before the AA's, is the U-21, ie, there is usually a gap of 5/6 seasons between U-21 and AA's, which equates to almost a year of real time. My idea would be to create an intermediate selection, ie the U-23 (or even the U-24), which diminish this "space" between the two selections.

What are the advantages in my opinion:

1- 19 years old players of the draft would be most desirable, because despite being difficult to join the U-21 for them, they could have a chance for the U-23.

2- The managers would have more tendency to keep players for more time, because in this case , they have a "new objective" and one more attraction to the game, that is to make your player enter the U-23.

3- It would increase the data base of players to play for the AA's because some players passing through U-21 never really come to be good enough to play in the AA's, because this timeline makes it not take as intensive training as they should, or are sold.

4- It would increase the competitiveness between countries due to the existence of another team, with their own AA teams having a boost in terms of quality of players, so the game would be more balanced in some cases and decrease the quality difference between selections from countries with more users than those who have fewer users.


Any criticism either positive or negative is welcome :)

Baavarick

Great idea.

It gives us another goal to train players after the age of 21. I think right now there's no point to train a SF for U21 but for NT. If there's a U23 NT it would be worthy to train more SFs. Also it's another feature to make the game more interesting.

you have my full support!

Very good idea and its not hard to complete it. I hope it will come to reallity very soon.

I love this idea a lot. That would be a really good (and I think fairly easy to implement) addition to the game!

edit: I would vouch for U24 btw as that's inbetween the "average" NT-Age and U21-age. And also that's three more seasons in training rather than two ... sounds very good to me!

Last edited by LA-Wendell Alexis at 9/18/2014 2:14:23 PM

Fantastic Suggestion !!!

Look at this BB-Marin

Yeah, now, after some rethinking about my suggestion and some discussion on the portuguese forum, I'm also more in favour of the U-24 rather than U-23. It's very difficult for a player with only 24 years old to get to play for the AA's, so if it was U-24 it would give managers one more year to train their players for the selection, and when they have 25/26 years old they would be in perfect shape to play for their country in the highest level!!

All right, but if instead of being U-23 it can be U-24, it's something that can be easily discussed.

As for the work of the manager in the U-23, I don't agree with your opinion. Just because it's just 2 or 3 seasons after the U-21 that doesn't mean that you don't have to speak with managers of the 23/24 years old selectable players. You still need to give training plans for those who came out of the U-21 because it's completely different to train a player when he is really young or when he has around 23, or that's what I think so, I can be wrong.
And I don't see the problem in the U-23/U-24 being an extension of the U-21, because that's what is suppose to be. It's the way to get a smaller gap between the U-21 and the AA's, it's the way to help managers to train their players in the best possible way and until a further age, making those players more suitable for the AA's.

But thanks for your comment and I hope that you continue to say what you think it's wrong with the suggestion because that's the only way to see if it is worth it or not, and the only way to improve it!!