Deniz Naki

BASIC INFO:

Full name: Deniz (Dennis) Naki
Club: Bayer Leverkusen (now at loan on Rot Weiss Ahlen)
Date of birth: 09/07/1989
Place of birth: Düren, Germany
Height & Weight: 176 cm, 68 kg
Right-footed
U17, U18, U19, U20 International


IDEAL POSITION: Forward, Offensive midfielder

STRENGTHS:

Quick, electric and tricky player, with great ability and ball handling (with both feet). He can play giving his best as a mobile forward, also is capable of playing in any offensive position of the midfield (including near the touchline). Very technique and creative player, has great vision and superb ball touch. He is a specialist throwing free kicks, both centering and shooting. Great first touch. Likes to have freedom, in this situations is where he usually do his best performances and become more dangerous. Very intelligent moves and also at losing one´s marker, he is very difficult to stop. Has goal and good definition. He likes to dribble aswell and is able to help in the exit of the ball, going to the midfield to receive the ball and to try and get his marker out of his place. He is constantly moving, enjoys going to the sides of the pitch and again to the centre via diagonal move. Dinamic and generous in the way he plays. His physic isn´t awesome , however he knows how to use it and get fouls (he is quite balanced). He doesn´t abuse too much of the individual play, prefers to combine with the teammates. Excellent change of rythm and ball control. His crosses and passes are dangerous too. Very good at driving the counterattacks, he doesn´t lose the time and is quite direct, normally choose the better option. Incisive and slippery, he creates space so their teammates can get profit of them. Plays better when he feels important and touches the ball oftenly. Always available to make the rival pay a mistake. Has lot of talent.

WEAKNESSES:

At the time a bit flimsy and irregular, he tends to disappear in some stages of the match. He also needs to gain force and maybe improve his body strength, also try to improve his aerobic capacity and stamina. He has the quality to assume more responsabilities, also sometimes he needs to be a little bit more individualist and decisive. I think other times he is too backwards in the pitch, needs to be nearest the area to bee even more dangerous. He still can improve in his accuracy with the ball. His deffensive level isn´t outstanding, doesn´t do too much effort in this aspect.

COMPARISON: Pedro Munitis/David Villa

ADDITIONAL INFO:

- Although he didn´t score any goal, he was a key player for the win of Germany in the European U19 2008, where he share team with players of the quality of Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Lars Bender, Timo Gebhart, Marcel Risse, Savio Nsereko or Richard Sukuta-Pasu.

- Another guy from Leverkusen´s prolific youth system, along with Stefan Reinartz, Marcel Risse or Sukuta-Pasu wants to follow the course of René Adler, Gonzalo Catro or Pirmin Schwegler and become an important player for the team.


EVALUATION/POTENTIAL: 8,9/10

Has all to become an awesome soccer player, he only needs to get better in his defects, have minutes and take profit of the opportunities, if he receives them. I enjoy his play too much, I think he is going to become a very important attacker for Germany in the next years. Is a personal bet.

Written by Joan Peris, 28 February 2009. hoeman5beta@hotmail.com

Recommended links:

Description of Deniz Naki at "Perlas del Fútbol" (Written in 14/11/2007, Spanish)
Video: compilation of his performances at European U19
Deniz Naki in Wikipedia

Pics: www.ntvspor.net, www.daylife.com (Reuters)

Ondrej Mazuch

BASIC INFO:

Full name: Ondrej Mazuch
Club: Fiorentina
Previous teams: FC Brno
Date of birth: 15/03/1989
Place of birth: Hodonin, Czech Republic
Height & Weight: 189 cm, 88 kg
Right-footed
U17, U19, U20, U21 International


IDEAL POSITION: Centre Back

STRENGTHS:

Tall, strong and stout. Has pace and doesn`t get complicated with the ball in delicate situations. Good individual technique, able to offer a clean exit of the ball from his position, with criteria. Excellent in aerial game, very dangerous hitting the crosses with head from free kicks. Solid, disciplined, restrained and selfless. Always tries to give his best for the benefit of the team. He's a versatile football player: has played also as right back and deffensive midfielder. Has personality, a strong temper and isn´t afraid of assuming responsabilities. Heavy and very confident in his qualities, likes to anticipate the attacker when he defends, is also very sticky when he has to do individual coverages. Quite quick for his body, especially in short distances, but also has good speed in long distances. Explosive. Difficult to be ahead of him, always has his mind inside the game, serious and concentrated. Powerful, leathery and with great aerobic capacity. Always available to help teammates. Good defender of 1 vs 1 situations, knows how to use his body. Can do tactical fouls, knows when to do them. Constant, reliable and complete. Good ball touch. Very secure.

WEAKNESSES:

Sometimes makes mistakes when placing in the pitch, he can break the offside line. He isn´t bad in this aspect, but he can improve his tactical ability. Maybe he lacks of a bit of top speed. Feels more confortable with the deffensive line near the own goal, suffers more when he has to play forward near the midfield line, however normally his performances are also very good. Needs to have minutes to continue developing and gaining experience, in Fiorentina he is going to have too much rivalry to have opportunities. Sometimes he is too harsh at tackling and the way he plays. He is quite commonly booked. Sometimes arrives late or makes some individual mistakes due to inexperience, not too often.

COMPARISON: Martin Skrtel/David Wheater

ADDITIONAL INFO:

- Is one of the most encouraging prospects of the Czech Republic, who is a good country giving to soccer very interesting full backs: Tomas Ujfalusi, David Rozenhal and youngsters like Ondrej Mazuch, Jan Simunek, Marek Suchy, Jan Polak or Roman Brunclik seem to have qualities to become very good players.

- Has take part of European U17 2006, European U19 2006 and World Cup U20 2007 with Czech Republic, having an outstanding role and making very good appearances. In European U17 he played as centre back and helped the team to arrive until the final, where they were defeated by Russia in penaltys. In European U19 his position was right back, they arrived to semifinals, knocked down by Scotland. And in World Cup 2007 again as a full back and with the help of the teammates they were finalists, but were defeated by Argentina.

- Was signed up by Fiorentina in last season`s winter for a fee next to 3 million euros. Other clubs like Bayer Leverkusen or Arsenal were also very interested in obtaining his services. Before signing with the Italian team he played 24 matches with FC Brno in Gambrinus League.

- Along with Manuel Da Costa is one of the hottest prospects in the World in his position, both from Fiorentina. If they continue progressing and understand each other, they can become the best couple of central defenders in the close future.


EVALUATION/POTENTIAL: 8,6/10

Super complete and solid, with calm and always giving the face. Great physic, with very good technical and mental qualities aswell. He is a personal bet.

Written by Joan Peris, 23 August 2008. hoeman5beta@hotmail.com

Recommended links:

Description of Ondrej Mazuch at "Perlas del Fútbol" (Written in 18/10/2006, Spanish)
Ondrej Mazuch in Wikipedia
Ondrej Mazuch report in checheche.net (Spanish)

Pics: www.1fcbrno.cz, www.daylife.com (AP Photo)

Report: Outstanding players in UEFA U19 European 2008

1) Deniz Naki

In my opinion the best of the tournament. Playing as a forward he didn´t score any goal but showed all his class and his individual technique, also his capacity of invention and intelligence. He was described before in this blog.

2) Krisztian Nemeth & Alberto Paloschi

Very dinamic, quick and intelligent forwards, they stand on their movements inside the pitch. Dangerous, searching for goal, with instinct, can play in team. They also are very good technically.

3) Tomas Vaclik, Peter Gulacsi & Vincenzo Fiorillo

Super solid and complete stoppers. They give lot of confidence to their respective teams: with personality, agile, great placing, determined, secure.

4) Dennis Diekmeier

The best defender of the tournament. As a right back had lot of inflence in the attack of his team. Very good technique, quick, selfless, good body, dangerous crosses, excellent aerobic and anaerobic capacity.

5) Lars Bender, Fran Mérida, Jan Moravek, Andrea Poli & Daniel Parejo

All are creative central midfielders, of different features, but with quality, vision and very good passing ability. They have shown their skills and abilities, most of them need to improve in their deffence.

6) Timo Gebhart, Jordi Alba, Marcel Risse, András Gosztonyi, Giacomo Bonaventura, Martin Zeman, Savio Nsereko & Daniel Rose

Skilful wingers with cheek and good technique conditions. Quick, constant, very interesting crosses. They are also of different characteristics, they love going forward and attacking.

7) Ignacio Camacho, Attila Busai & Jan Hable

Solid deffensive midfielders with pace, good placing in the pitch, and aggressive in the way they play. Know when and how to do tactical fouls, they have temper and always try to do their best, in the benefit of the team.

8) Tomas Necid, Stefano Okaka Chuka & Richard Sukuta-Pasu

Tall and reference strikers, they can play both back and forward to goal. They do a great job for the benefit of the team, know to score aswell.

9) Daniel Sturridge, Aarón Ñíguez & Fernando Martín Forestieri

Skilful and mobile forwards with great technique and many skills, however they need to improve in their respective game reading and sometimes they abuse trying individual move, have to learn to give the ball to a teammate earlier. Lot of quality in their boots.

10) Others: Olivier Nagy, Jack Cork, Florian Jungwirth, Matteao Gentili & Mikel Sanjosé

Defenders who showed they have to be observed for the future. Nagy is a very offensive right back, Cork palyed also a right back with lot of criteria. Jungwirth, Gentili and Sanjosé are very solid full backs, with outstanding physcical conditions.

Written by Joan Peris, 16 August 2008. hoeman5beta@hotmail.com

Recommended links:

Future stars by UEFA
Complete report of all outstanding players (Spanish)

Germany U19: Champion European U19 2008

Formation: 4-4-2/4-2-3-1

Base team: Ron-Robert Zieler; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Stefan Reinartz, Björn Kopplin; Lars Bender, Sven Bender (Danny Latza); Risse/Gebhart, Gebhart/Naki, Nsereko; Naki/Sukuta-Pasu

Key players: Diekmeier, Jungwirth, Lars Bender, Naki

How they played?

Germany was a very solid team that knew how to use his weapons. It is proved by the fact that they won all the games played: 5. Against Spain, Bulgaria and Hungary in Group stage, Czech Republic in semifinals (in extra time), and Italy in the final. They are deserved and honourable champions.

With alternatives in the way they had to play, normally in organised attack Jungwirth was the responsible of playing the ball from his position, without complicating if opponent did a sticky pressure. The right back Diekmeier also was used to bring the ball upwards, he prefered to receive it when he was in a more offenssive position. Constantly going to attack, was very dangerous because he knew how to play with and without the ball posession and could receive both stopped or in movement. His crosses to area were very intelligent, he prefered to pass the ball backwards for the arrival of the miedfielders, mainly without opposition and with time to think before taking the decision -shot or pass-. Risse -right wing- was very important in the correct performance of the team because he continuosly helped Diekemeier offensive and deffensively. The left side was less useful and when they tried it by this way was especially with Nsereko -left wing, right-footed- showing his tricks and individual skills. The centre of the miedfield was very consistent with the brothers Bender, Sven more deffensive and Lars with more freedom to go upwards and with better individual technique. Lars was the "motor" of the team in many stages, he doesn´t lose the ball, distributes it with criteria, sums to attack and give help to teammates, even tries his shot from mid-distance. In attack Gebhart was very important in the offenssive transitions -leading attack after Germany rob a ball- with his power and ball driving. Direct, strong and shooting, also able to give interesting goal passes. He almost played in the centre as an offensive miedfielder, he could also do it as a right wing. Deniz Naki was imagination and quality, however a bit irregular, he didn´t score any goal but he gave lot of dangerous assists and he helped the team with creation in last metres, his movements inside the field were very intelligent. He also tried his shot and showed lot of individual skills. The "goal-striker" was Sukuta-Pasu, who knew how to use his body and get the chances to score. Strong, powerful, with big stride. Nevertheless he needs ti improve his definition.

Deffensively the teammates maintained their positions -Diekmeier was the worst at this- and tried to be well placed, normally everybody was attentive ready to give a teammate help if he needed. Central miedfielder were the most important to stop opponents counterattack and at tackling. In the centre of the deffence Jungwirth was the leader, trying to anticipate to striker if he could and always available to give help and advice to Diekmeier. The left back Kopplin was more deffensive, but right-footed. He was selfless and tried to do his best, however he lacks of a bit of level. Risse was also constantly going backwards and helping or exchanging momentarily positions with Diekmeier, who is selfless and decisive in attack but needs to improve the individual deffence. The other full back Reinartz was very important in aerial game and quite good in his placing, but he needs to be more heavy, and secure with the ball. Lars Bender showed a great tackling ability, also knew how to do tactical fouls. Sven Bender defended more trying to give helps and to be in the right place. Danny Latza, when he played, had similar role to Sven, trying to do coverage to teammates and being solid in the miedfield. Both Nsereko and Risse returned back quite a lot, whilst Gebhart, Naki or Sukuta-Pasu had to make pressure to opponent defence and miedfield, for them not to be confortable in the pitch, and to difficult them their attack.

Top prospects

1. Dennis Naki (also called Deniz)

Superb attacking striker. Lot of imagination, excellent individual technique and many individual skills. Knows how to be decisive being more individual or more colective depending on the moment, loves to be in constant movement and go to sides or down to receive and decide what to do with ball posession. With balanced physic -maybe he needs to improve it- and remarkably quickness, I love his way of playing.

Potential: 9/10
Club: Bayer Leverkusen
Date of birth: 1989



2. Dennis Diekmeier

Awesome performance in all the tournament, in many cases he was decisive from a marginal position like right back. Always available to move forward, very good technically, intelligent inside the pitch, precises crosses, liked to do combinations, also scored a goal. Selfless and fighter in deffence, however he needs to improve in this aspect.

Potential: 8,5/10
Club: Werder Bremen
Date of birth: 1989

3. Lars Bender

Very intelligent and complete central miedfielder, able to attack and defend with lot of efficiency. Quick movements, tall, knows how to use his body, very precise tackling, distributes ball with marvellous criteria, doesn´t get complicated and is rare to see him losing a dangerous ball, likes to go to attack and offer help teammates, specially in sides. His shot is also very interesting.

Potential: 8/10
Club: 1860 Munich
Date of birth: 1989



4. Timo Gebhart

Can play as central offenssive miedfielder and as right wing. Very powerful and strong player, with great individual technique and dangerous shot. His crosses to area are also very dangerous, he enjoys doing ball conductions/drivings and going rapidly to attack after the team regains the ball. Good vision, however sometimes he is too individualist and takes too much time to pass the ball.

Potential: 7,8/10
Club: 1860 Munich
Date of birth: 1989

5. Florian Jungwirth

Very solid, hard and strong full back, always tries to do his best inside the pitch and help the teammates. Excellent team player, is good anticipating to opponent but also sticky in the cover, normally well placed. Available to do coverages to the right back and his partner in the centre of deffence. Acceptable technique, doesn´t complicate with ball, can move forward if he considers appropiate.

Potential: 7,5/10
Club: 1860 Munich
Date of birth: 1989

Very interesting players

Marcel Risse (1989, Bayer Leverkusen): Excellent team player right wing. Complete, selfless and with excellent aerobic and anaerobic capacity. Quick, good technique, dinamic, skillfull, generous. Helps a lot in deffensive game.

Savio Nsereko (1989, Brescia): Skilfull and electric offensive miedfielder. Enjoys trying to beat defenders with his individual skills, needs to improve his game reading. Great aerobic capacity.

Richard Sukuta-Pasu (1990, Bayer Leverkusen): Striker: powerful, strong and with goal. Very difficult to defend, knows how to use his body and also how to receive goal chances. Needs to improve his definition, lacks of some of better technique -isn´t bad anyway-, personally I have doubt of his performances when he will face strong and experienced full backs.

Good teammates (they can have future as professional players)

Ron-Robert Zieler (Manchester United, 1989): Academic goalkeeper, however he lacks of a bit of consistence.

Björn Kopplin (Bayern Munich, 1989): Selfless and quick right back that can also play in left side.

Stefan Reinartz (Bayer Leverkusen, 1989): Calmed full back, very good in aerial game and normally well placed in the pitch.

Sven Bender (1860 Munich, 1989): Agressive deffensive miedfielder, runs lot of metres in each game.

Danny Latza (Schalke 04, 1989): Deffensive miedfielder who does lot of work and doesn´t get complicated with ball.

Written by Joan Peris, 7 August 2008. hoeman5beta@hotmail.com

Recommended links:

The best german generation (Spanish)
Germany U19: Unexpected champion (Portuguese)

Pics: www.uefa.com, www.jamd.com, www.werder.de, www.1asport.de, www.leverkusener-anzeiger.ksta.de

Summary UEFA U19 European Championship 2008

TEAMS AND PLAYERS

GERMANY - Champion

Goalkeepers
Ron-Robert Zieler
Tom Mickel

Defenders
Dennis Diekmeier
Björn Kopplin
Stefan Reinartz
Florian Jungwirth
Ömer Toprak

Midfielders
Timo Gebhart
Marcel Risse
Savio Nsereko
Lars Bender
Sven Bender
Danny Latza
Mario Vrancic
Bastian Oczipka

Forwards
Dennis Naki
Richard Sukuta-Pasu
Rahman Soyudogru

ITALY - Finalist

Goalkeepers
Vincenzo Fiorillo
Carlo Pinsoglio

Defenders
Matteo Darmian
Michelangelo Albertazzi
Matteo Bruscagin
Massimiliano Tagliani
Matteao Gentili
Giovanni Formiconi
Domenico Marchetti

Midfielders
Andrea Mazzarani
Andrea Poli
Silvano Raggio Garibaldi
Giacomo Bonaventura

Forwards
Alberto Paloschi
Stefano Okaka Chuka
Fernando Martin Forestieri
Umberto Eusepi
Fabio Zamblera

CZECH REPUBLIC - Semifinalist

Goalkeepers
Tomáš Vaclík
Michal Bárta

Defenders
Radim Řezník
Jakub Heidenreich
Jan Polák
Roman Brunclík
Miroslav Štěpánek

Midfielders
Petr Reinberk
Martin Zeman
Jan Lecjaks
Jan Hable
Jan Morávek
Lukáš Mareček
Petr Wojnar
Tomáš Nuc

Forwards
Tomáš Necid
Jan Vošahlík
Libor Kozák

HUNGARY - Semifinalist

Goalkeepers
Péter Gulácsi
Péter Pokorni

Defenders
Olivér Nagy
Ádám Présinger
Dániel Lengyel
András Debreceni
Zsolt Korcsmár
Adrián Szekeres

Midfielders
András Gosztonyi
László Szabó
Attila Busai
Vlagyimir Komán
Márk Nikházi
Bence Iszlai
András Gál

Forwards
András Simon
Krisztián Németh
Bálint Bajner

SPAIN

Goalkeepers
Tomás Mejías
David de Gea

Defenders
César Azpilicueta
Manuel Castellano Lillo
José María Antón
Alberto Morgado
Mikel Sanjosé
Álvaro Domínguez Soto
Victor Ruiz

Midfielders
Jordi Alba
Ignacio Camacho
Fran Mérida
Daniel Parejo
Miguel Ángel Luque

Forwards
Aarón Ñíguez
Emilio Nsue
Daniel Aquino
Iván Bolado

ENGLAND

Goalkeepers
David Button
Jason Steele

Defenders
Jack Cork
Joseph Mattock
Ryan Bertrand
James Tomkins
Krystian Pearce
Benjamin Mee

Midfielders
Daniel Rose
Scott Sinclair
Daniel Gosling
Kieran Gibbs
Victor Moses
Jamie Chandler
Fabian Delph

Forwards
Daniel Sturridge
Frederick Sears
Tope Obadeyi

GREECE

Dean Bouzanis
Nikos Babaniotis
Nikos Barboudis
Kyriakos Papadopoulos
Nikolaos Boutzikos
Leonidas Argyropoulos
Vangelis Galanis
Vassilis Lampropoulos
Savas Gentzoglou
Sotiris Ninis
Michail Kyrgias
Sotirios Stratacis
Stergios Psianos
Ioannis Papadopoulos
Thodoros Karapetsas
Lefteris Matsoukas
Michail Pavlis
Apostolos Giannou

BULGARIA

Ivan Karadjov
Petar Denchev
Tsetelin Bojida Panov
Daniel Zlatkov
Kristian Uzunov
Kostadin Veseli Gadzhalov
Aleksandar Aleksandrov Tsvetkov
Daniel Dimov
Momchil Tsvetanov
Alexandar Kirov
Mihail Aleksandrov
Stefan Dimitrov Velev
Ismail Isa Mustafa
Branimir Kostadinov
Todor Georgiev
Ivan Tsachev
Radoslav Vasilev
Atanas Tzankov Zehirov

TOP SCORERS

Tomáš Necid (CZE) - 4
Richard Sukuta-Pasu (GER) - 3
Lars Bender (GER) - 2
Marcel Risse (GER) - 2
Alberto Paloschi (ITA) - 2
Jan Morávek (CZE) - 2
Andrea Poli (ITA) - 2
Emilio Nsue (ESP) - 2

Related link: Necid picks up scoring prize

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Review: Final stage UEFA U19 European Championship 2008

SEMIFINALS

Italy vs Hungary

Italy (4-3-3): Vincenzo Fiorillo; Matteo Darmian, Matteao Gentili, Massimiliano Tagliani, Michelangelo Albertazzi; Andrea Poli, Giovanni Formiconi (Fernando Martin Forestieri), Silvano Raggio Garibaldi; Alberto Paloschi (Umberto Eusepi), Stefano Okaka Chuka, Giacomo Bonaventura

Hungary (4-2-3-1): Péter Gulácsi; Adrián Szekeres, Zsolt Korcsmár, András Debreceni, Ádám Présinger; András Gál, Attila Busai (Bálint Bajner); András Gosztonyi, Vlagyimir Komán, László Szabó; Krisztián Németh

Scoreboard: 1-0
Goals: Forestieri 64´

Germany vs Czech Republic

Germany (4-4-1-1): Ron-Robert Zieler; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Stefan Reinartz, Björn Kopplin; Marcel Risse, Lars Bender, Sven Bender (Danny Latza), Savio Nsereko; Timo Gebhart (Mario Vrancic); Deniz Naki (Richard Sukuta-Pasu)

Czech Republic (4-4-1-1): Tomáš Vaclík; Radim Řezník, Roman Brunclík, Jan Polák, Jakub Heidenreich; Jan Vošahlík, Lukáš Mareček, Jan Hable (Petr Reinberk), Jan Lecjaks (Petr Wojnar); Jan Morávek (Martin Zeman); Tomáš Necid

Scoreboard: 2-1
Goals: Risse 18´, Necid 23´, Sukuta-Pasu 118´

SEMIFINALS BEST TEAM

Formation 4-4-2: Vincenzo Fiorillo; Dennis Diekmeier, Matteao Gentili, Florian Jungwirth, Michelangelo Albertazzi; Marcel Risse, Jan Hable, Attila Busai, Fernando Martin Forestieri; Tomáš Necid, Krisztián Németh

Subs: Péter Gulácsi, Roman Brunclík, Jan Lecjaks, Giacomo Bonaventura, Richard Sukuta-Pasu

One by one

Vincenzo Fiorillo: A very solid, agile and confident goalkeeper. Has a balanced body and great reflexes, he is very secure in aerial game. Quick movements, clears the ball if he is overwhelmed with work. Has personality and a strong character.

Dennis Diekmeier: Very offensive and intelligent right back, with and without ball. Loves to go forward and makes field wider. His crosses are very interesting, he also has a very good individual technique. Needs to improve his individual deffence.

Matteao Gentili: Elegant full back, has good physic and technique, is able to play the ball from his position with criteria, doesn´t like to raffle it. However, he lacks of a bit of speed in large distances and suffers when he goes out of his place in the pitch.

Florian Jungwirth: Strong, serious, aggresive, calmed central back. He is very selfless and always tries to do the better for the team. Acceptable technique, can move forward with the ball if he considers it aproppiate. Always looking to help teammates, is the captain of his team. A rock.

Michelangelo Albertazzi: Very strong and physic left back. Accepatble individual technique, doesn´t get complicated when he has ball possession. He isn´t afraid of colliding with other players, his speed is quite good aswell. Needs to gain pace, maybe his game style is too physic.

Marcel Risse: Dinamic, balanced and complete right winger. Good technique, quick movements, hard-working, selfless, involved. His crosses to area are also very interesting, he has individual skills to be important for the team. Constant and with great aerobic capacity. Excellent team player, maybe he lacks of a bit of imagination with the ball.

Jan Hable: Deffensive central miedfileder, prefers to be the only one to do the most deffensive work in the centre. Makes sacrifices for the team, he is very aggresive and covers lot of distance in each match. Does necessary tactical fouls, has very good tackling, gives help to teammates. Balanced and strong, has an acceptable technique, however prefers other to distribute the ball and go forward to attack.

Attila Busai: He puts oneself very well inside the pitch, mainly always is in the right place. Tall and strong, has a great stride, however he lacks of some movement speed. Likes to sum to attack, his mid and large distance shot is very deangerous. Has criteria with ball possession, control both short and long passing skills. Calmed, doesn´t get complicated when he is in trouble.

Fernando Martin Forestieri: Small and quick forward or winger. Very techinique and bold player, always tries to beat his defender using his individual skills. Dummy and great dribbling. However, he hasn´t got too much force and needs to improve his game reading to be more decisive, sometimes he is too individualist.

Tomáš Necid: A great reference striker, mainly all attacking balls of the Czech Republic searched him. Very dangerous in aerial balls and hitting the crosses from free kicks. Strong, powerful and intelligent in the pitch, knows how to get goal chances. Can play both face and back to goal. However, he lacks of a bit of technique -he isn´t bad in this aspect either- and speed movements, especially in long distances.

Krisztián Németh: Super intelligent striker, understands the game and knows what he has to do in every moment to damage the rival team. Outstanding skill to lose defender´s marker, always tries to go ahead or get the back of the defender who is nearest him. Very good technique and passing ability, enjoys doing combinations with teammates. Excellent hitting the cross straight into the goal, has goal and a very dangerous shot. Dinamic, quick, hard-working. Involves in team defensive game, he is always ready to put pressure on the opponent.


FINAL

Germany vs Italy

Germany (4-4-1-1): Ron-Robert Zieler; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Stefan Reinartz, Björn Kopplin; Marcel Risse (Danny Latza), Lars Bender, Sven Bender (Ömer Toprak), Deniz Naki (Bastian Oczipka); Timo Gebhart; Richard Sukuta-Pasu

Italy (4-3-3): Vincenzo Fiorillo; Matteo Darmian, Matteao Gentili, Massimiliano Tagliani, Matteo Bruscagin; Andrea Poli (Giacomo Bonaventura), Andrea Mazzarani, Silvano Raggio Garibaldi; Alberto Paloschi (Fabio Zamblera), Stefano Okaka Chuka, Fernando Martin Forestieri

Scoreboard: 3-1
Goals: Lars Bender 23´, Sukuta-Pasu 60´, Raggio Garibaldi 77´, Gebhart 79´

IDEAL TEAM OF THE TOURNAMENT

Formation 4-4-2: Tomáš Vaclík; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Matteao Gentili, Ryan Bertrand; Timo Gebhart, Attila Busai, Lars Bender, Jordi Alba; Deniz Naki, Krisztián Németh

Subs: Péter Gulácsi, Mikel Sanjosé, Ignacio Camacho, Marcel Risse, Alberto Paloschi

BEST PLAYER: Deniz Naki

Written by Joan Peris, 5 August 2008. hoeman5beta@hotmail.com

Review: 3rd leg UEFA U19 European Championship 2008

MATCHES VIEWED:

Italy vs Czech Republic

Czech Republic (4-4-2): Tomáš Vaclík; Radim Řezník, Jan Polák, Miroslav Štěpánek, Jan Lecjaks; Petr Reinberk (Petr Wojnar), Lukáš Mareček, Jan Morávek, Martin Zeman; Jan Vošahlík (Libor Kozák), Tomáš Necid

Italy (4-3-3): Vincenzo Fiorillo; Giovanni Formiconi (Domenico Marchetti), Matteo Darmian, Matteo Bruscagin, Michelangelo Albertazzi; Andrea Poli, Andrea Mazzarani, Silvano Raggio Garibaldi; Alberto Paloschi (Domenico Marchetti), Stefano Okaka Chuka, Fernando Martin Forestieri (Giacomo Bonaventura)

Scoreboard: 4-3
Goals: Poli 21´, Necid 22´, Bonaventura 56´, Moravek 57´, Paloschi 70´, Poli 79´, Moravek 85´

Germany vs Hungary

Germany (4-4-1-1): Ron-Robert Zieler; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Stefan Reinartz (Ömer Toprak), Björn Kopplin; Marcel Risse, Lars Bender (Danny Latza), Sven Bender, Savio Nsereko (Bastian Oczipka); Timo Gebhart; Deniz Naki

Hungary (4-2-3-1): Péter Pokorni; Adrián Szekeres, Dániel Lengyel, András Debreceni, Ádám Présinger; András Gál, Bence Iszlai (Attila Busai); Bálint Bajner (Olivér Nagy) (András Gosztonyi), Márk Nikházi, László Szabó; András Simon

Scoreboard: 2-1
Goals: Reinartz 35´, Simon 73´, Risse 75´

OTHER MATCHES

England-Greece 3-0 (Benjamin Mee, Frederick Sears, Daniel Sturridge)
Spain-Bulgaria 4-0 (Aarón Ñíguez, Emilio Nsue, Emilio Nsue, Fran Mérida)

3RD LEG BEST TEAM

Formation 4-3-3: Tomáš Vaclík; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, András Debreceni, Björn Kopplin; Andrea Poli, Lars Bender, Jan Morávek; Alberto Paloschi, Tomáš Necid, Deniz Naki

Subs: Vincenzo Fiorillo, Matteo Darmian, Bence Iszlai, Marcel Risse, Stefano Okaka Chuka

One by one

Tomáš Vaclík: He received four goals, but he couldn´t do much more in any of them. Impressive physic, excellent placing down the goal, quick movements, always alert to game, agile. Goes to floor without hesitation and defendes very well 1x1 against rival attackers. Very complete goalkeeper, gives lot of confidence to the team.

Dennis Diekmeier: Right back, less offensive than other days, he is decisive in Germany form his position. Lot of criteria with and without the ball, excellent passing ability, likes to arrive to end of pitch and pass back for second line teammates to reach ball with less opposition. Inteligent, able to send very good crosses.

Florian Jungwirth: Strong, hard and concentrated central defender, with good speed and aerial game, can collide with an opponent without dilema. However, he is a clean player and always tries to get the ball, if not is intelligent to make tactical fouls. Achieve success without showing off. Sometimes he needs to be more careful with the space he leaves at his back.

András Debreceni: Solid, tall and calmed full back. A mid-level team player, always gives his best inside the field and does not get complicated. Hasn´t got a high speed, however he does it quite well in short distances, suffers much more with advanced defense. Likes to advance the striker and is sticky in coverage.

Björn Kopplin: Is playing as left back, can do it also in the right side, his natural position. Quick, active and aggresive, gives all what he has in the pitch, lacks of a bit of quality with ball.

Andrea Poli: Offensive miedfielder with great technique and passing ability, enjoys going forward and has a good shot. Intelligent, active and aggresive without ball, lot of criteria and quality with it. Magnificent ball touch, selfless, quick, very skillfull. Receives lot of fouls. Needs to gain regularity, gain deffensive strength and improve his physic, however, he knows how to use it quite well.

Lars Bender: Very efficient and secure central miedfilder. Has remarkably vision and doesn´t risk balls, is rare to see him losing one. Contributes in both deffensive and offensive ways, he is involved in game. Dinamic and with very good individual technique. Enjoys playing the easier, which is very beneficial for his team.

Jan Morávek: Central miedfielder who prefers attacking and being near opposing area. Very good individual technique and vision, can give a teammate a assist in any moment. Balanced, also enjoys arriving to area in movement and shooting. Good distributor and quick, needs to improve his deffensive level.

Alberto Paloschi: Very intelligent striker, he is a specialist losing one's marker, his movements always create problems to adversary defenses. Mobile and with outstanding technique, doesn´t think too much when he can shoot and has goal. Quick and decisve, nevertheless he is intermittent, a player of brilliant appearances.

Tomáš Necid: Very useful team striker. Excellent body, can play right to goal or giving the back and taking down the ball for a teammate to get benefit of the situation. Knows how to create goal opportunities, however lacks of some quality in last metres. His technique isn´t the best.

Deniz Naki: Awesome player, he is going to be a football star. Mobile, with otstanding individual technique and vision. Provokes lot of fouls in each game, he is very skilful and has many resources. In any moment can decide a match. Physically balanced, flexible and quick. Intelligent, with interesting shot and killer instinct. Doesn´t help too much deffensively.

Written by Joan Peris, 21 July 2008. hoeman5beta@hotmail.com

Review: 2nd leg UEFA U19 European Championship 2008

MATCHES VIEWED:

Spain vs Hungary

Spain (4-5-1): David de Gea; César Azpilicueta, Manuel Castellano Lillo, Álvaro Domínguez, José María Antón (Miguel Ángel Luque); Emilio Nsue, Ignacio Camacho, Fran Mérida (Daniel Aquino), Daniel Parejo, Aarón Ñíguez; Iván Bolado (Jordi Alba)

Hungary (4-4-1-1): Péter Gulácsi; Olivér Nagy, Zsolt Korcsmár, András Debreceni; Ádám Présinger; Vlagyimir Komán, Attila Busai, Bence Iszlai, András Gosztonyi (András Simon); Márk Nikházi (László Szabó); Krisztián Németh (Bálint Bajner)

Scoreboard: 0-1
Goals: Olivér Nagy (70´)

Germany vs Bulgaria (only 1st half)

Germany (4-4-2): Ron-Robert Zieler; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Stefan Reinartz, Björn Kopplin; Timo Gebhart, Lars Bender, Danny Latza, Savio Nsereko; Deniz Naki, Richard Sukuta-Pasu (Rahman Soyudogru)

Bulgaria (4-4-2): Ivan Karadjov; Tsetelin Bojida Panov (Mihail Aleksandrov), Kostadin Veseli Gadzhalov, Kristian Uzunov, Daniel Zlatkov; Todor Georgiev, Momchil Tsvetanov, Atanas Tzankov Zehirov, Radoslav Vasilev; Daniel Dimov, Ismail Isa Mustafa

Scoreboard: 0-2 (Final result: 0-3)
Goals: Diekmeier (16´), Nserenko (43´), (Lars Bender 56´)

OTHER MATCHES:

Czech Republic-Greece 0-0
Italy-England 0-0

2ND LEG BEST TEAM

Formation 4-4-2: Péter Gulácsi; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Zsolt Korcsmár, Ádám Présinger; András Gosztonyi, Attila Busai, Lars Bender, Jordi Alba; Deniz Naki, Krisztián Németh.

Subs: Ron-Robert Zieler, César Azpilicueta, Fran Mérida, Timo Gebhart, Aarón Ñíguez

One by one

Péter Gulácsi: A very solid and complete goalkeeper, he has a great potential. Tall and strong, quick in his movements, determined. Gives a lot of confidence to his team, dominates mainly all aspects of the game. Very secure in aerial balls, he always tries to catch the ball when a rival shoots or crosses, doesn´t like to give second options. Excellent attitude in pitch, always concentrated. His deffence of 1x1 situations is amazing aswell. Can convert in one of the best goalkeeper of the next 10-15 years, I bet for that.

Dennis Diekmeier: Very offensive and balanced right back, constantly moving upwards and producing dangerous situations. He is quick, has a good technique and very good ball touch. Gives depth to the team and is quite intelligent to decide the better option for the team. Deffensively he leaves his back a bit carefree, however he involves and he is selfless.

Florian Jungwirth: Excellent team defender. He never is the best of the team, but always adds up in the benefit of the team and never hides. Strong, solid and restrained full back. He always is able to give help to teammates, especially to the right back. Has a good speed and acceptable individual technique, doesn´t make life difficult for oneself with the ball, he knows that he cannot miss in his demarcation.

Zsolt Korcsmár: Solid central defender. Good physic and great positioning in the field, also has a good speed, especially in short distances. With strong body, doesn´t complicates and has an acceptable technique. He suffers in side displacement and against skilled players.

Ádám Présinger: Very good deffensive left back, he also join attack with lot of power and decision. Strong and difficult to beat, has a great tackling ability and placing in the pitch, he also is always able to give deffensive help to full back of his side and close his position.

András Gosztonyi: Constant, electric and offensive winger that can play in both right and left side, he is right-footed, so he prefers the right one. He helps a lot deffensively, falls back and constantly is running up and down. Likes to attack and face up defenders without losing time. A very dinamic and incisive player, nevertheless he needs to improve his game reading and try to be more decisive. Has very good technical ability and many skills.

Attila Busai: A "supermiedfielder", able to deffend and attack with excellent efficiency. Has more deffensive conditions but he also likes to sum to attack, from where he can try his dangerous shot. Excellent body and lot of criteria with the posession of the ball, makes things easier and doesn´t lose dangerous balls. In deffence, he intimidates and knows how to do tactical fouls. Good individual technique.

Lars Bender: intelligent and very calmed central miedfielder, has a remarkably vision and ball touch, aswell he is a great ball distributor. He helps in deffence and like to go upwards to attack, doing a great job both offensively and deffensively. Interesting shot and very good technique, runs many metres in each game.

Jordi Alba: Direct, quick and incisive left wing, he is more a player of great appearances than a constant performancer. Great ability to exceed defenders, has a special skill to change speed. Left-footed, also his crosses are very interesting. Likes to arrive to goal scoring positions. However, he is too weak and small physically and needs to improve in his deffence.

Deniz Naki: Very talented attacker. Excellent technique, outstanding vision, great touch. Prefers to have movement freedom, likes to go back to receive the ball, also falls to touchline quite often. Quick and with pace, can decide a match in any moment. Able to play individually or with teammates, has a very precise first touch and shot. Daring, has all to become a decisive world class striker.

Krisztián Németh: Distinction movements inside the pitch, he is a very intelligent striker. Constantly trying to lose one's marker, he also likes to go back and get the ball. Vey good passing skills and great team player, has goal and knows how to create goal chances. Dinamic, quick, with good technique, generous. Adores to make combinations with teammates, he is a very dangerous and excellent hitter. Shoots with intention.

Written by Joan Peris, 19 July 2008. hoeman5beta@hotmail.com

Review: 1st leg UEFA U19 European Championship 2008

MATCHES VIEWED:

England vs Czech Republic

England (4-4-2): David Button; Jack Cork, James Tomkins, Krystian Pearce, Ryan Bertrand; Scott Sinclair (Tope Obadeyi), Daniel Gosling (Jamie Chandler), Kieran Gibbs, Daniel Rose; Daniel Sturridge, Frederick Sears

Czech Republic (4-4-2): Tomáš Vaclík; Radim Řezník, Roman Brunclík, Jan Polák, Jakub Heidenreich; Petr Reinberk, Jan Morávek, Jan Hable (Lukáš Mareček), Martin Zeman (Miroslav Štěpánek); Jan Vošahlík (Jan Lecjaks), Tomáš Necid

Scoreboard: 0-2
Goals: Necid 54´, Necid 58´

Spain vs Germany

Spain (4-2-3-1): David de Gea; César Azpilicueta, César Ortiz, Mikel Sanjosé, José María Antón; Ignacio Camacho (Miguel Ángel Luque), Daniel Parejo; Aarón Ñíguez (Manuel Castellano Lillo), Daniel Aquino (Iván Bolado), Jordi Alba; Emilio Nsue

Germany (4-4-1-1): Ron-Robert Zieler; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Stefan Reinartz, Ömer Toprak (Björn Kopplin); Marcel Risse, Sven Bender, Danny Latza, Savio Nsereko; Timo Gebhart; Richard Sukuta-Pasu (Rahman Soyudogru)

Scoreboard: 1-2
Goals: Sukuta-Pasu 7´, Toprak 56´, Alba 66´

OTHER MATCHES:

Hungary-Bulgaria 1-0 (Krisztián Németh)
Italy-Greece 1-1 (Alberto Paloschi; Michail Pavlis)


1ST LEG BEST TEAM

Formation 4-4-1-1: Tomáš Vaclík; Dennis Diekmeier, Roman Brunclík, Mikel Sanjosé, Ryan Bertrand; Marcel Risse, Danny Latza, Daniel Parejo, Martin Zeman; Timo Gebhart; Tomáš Necid.

Subs: Ron-Robert Zieler, Radim Řezník, Florian Jungwirth, Jordi Alba, Daniel Sturridge

One by one

Tomáš Vaclík: Superb goalkeeper. Excellent in all aspects. He is tall, big and quick. Very secure and with lot of confidence in his possibilities, has great reflexes and handles the ball, doesn´t like to let the opponents a second chance. Dominates aerial balls. Future excellent goalkeeper, he will become a world star.

Dennis Diekmeier: Dinamic and balanced right back. Likes to go upwards, he is quick and has good technique, his crosses are very interesting. Selfless, however he needs to improve his deffence.

Roman Brunclík: A very solid full back. Very strong and tall, powerful and agressive, doesn´t like to make life difficult for oneself when the opponent pressures him.

Mikel Sanjosé: Great physic and good technique, can play the ball with criteria form his position. Strong and with rank, he likes to assume responsabilities. Needs to improve his placing in the field, also be more careful with his back.

Ryan Bertrand: Dinamic and offensive left back. Likes to join attack, is quick and has good technique. However, he has to try to assume more responsabilities and be more decisive. Good team player, also needs to improve individual deffence.

Marcel Risse: Excelent team right winger. Attacks and defends, run lot of metres in each game, helps a lot the right back. Very intelligent, has a good individual technique and knows how to play with teammates. Interesting crosses, contributes making "bigger" the pitch.

Daniel Parejo: Elegant and technique offensive miedfielder. Very good distributor, has an excellent ball touch and great vision. However is too cold and defends very badly, lacks of intensity, something that he needs to improve if he wants to be an outstanding football player.

Danny Latza: Deffensive central miedfielder, his job is to make sacrifices for other to shine. Tactical fouls, coverages, helps, ball intercepts. Technically is a common player, his work isn´t the creative one. Very good aerobic capacity.

Martin Zeman: Electric, quick and slippery left wing, has some interesting skills and loves to face up defenders. Quite poor physically, needs more strength, aswell delays too much with ball handling, he has to try being more efficient. A remarkably free kick specialist, his aerial crosses are very dangerous.

Timo Gebhart: Strong and constant offensive miedfielder who can play in centre or right side. Likes to lead the ball and is a complete player: good technique, passing ability , ball touch and vision. Can defend and help teammates. Has personality. However sometimes is too individualist and he disappears in some stages of the game.

Tomáš Necid: A very powerful and strong striker, has goal. Does lot of interesting movements in each match, can play and hold the ball backwards without losing it. Works deffensively and always tries to help team. However, his technical ability isn´t the better, he isn´t bad in this aspect either.

Written by Joan Peris, 14 July 2008. hoeman5beta@hotmail.com