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Juventus fans must have felt that they were staring down the barrel of a humiliating defeat after 20 minutes of the 2014/2015 Champions League Final.

The FIFA U-20 World Cup is promoted as the chance to see the world’s very best players before they become household names.

In 2022 will you be reminiscing about watching a young Brazilian player way back in 2015 as you watch them dominate on TV?

“We have a big team and we want to win the World Cup.”

“We will play each game like it is a final.”

Angel Correa, captain of the Argentina U-20 squad, clearly has very high expectations for the FIFA U-20 World Cup that kicks off on Saturday.

The Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport described striker Carlos Tevez as being a man of ‘seven lungs’ after Juventus defeated Lazio 2-1 to win the Coppa Italia this week.

Character.  It is a word often used to describe the player or team that can respond when the going gets tough.

Character is a much-prized quality, so how do we instill it in our young footballers?

Andrea Pirlo is the dominant Italian footballer of the last 20 years.

Creating opportunities for others to score and spectacular long range free kicks are the hallmark of his game.  Pirlo’s vision and passing ability is now much admired, but as a young prodigy in Brescia it was a different story.