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The DFB’s Controversial Plan to Revamp Youth Football Leagues: Will it Save German Football?

The senior men’s national team failed miserably in the preliminary rounds of the last two World Cups (2018, 2022). The men’s U21s just dropped out of the European Championships as the last in the preliminary round. For the women, after the 1-1 draw against South Korea at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, it is also over after the preliminary round. Home trip!

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The DFB has already found its answer. The association has been fighting for years to gradually abolish the competition. The question: Is this how you develop a winning mentality?

With the little ones (5 to 11 years) everything is canceled – faster or with a little delay, depending on the national association: results, tables, championships. When the kids meet in Berlin or Hamburg for their comparisons, “oE” is written after the pairing. Without a result.

Of course, the girls and boys counted and also know how often they scored – but: nothing is officially counted.

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You can only measure correctly and sometimes win a trophy at tournaments that the clubs organize among themselves.

What started with the little ones should continue in 2024 in the highest junior performance leagues. Then the DFB also wants to abolish the federal leagues in the U17 and U19. After years of deliberations in committees and commissions, everything has been worked out.

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New youth leagues are to take the place of the national leagues for A and B youth. The decisive difference: The teams from the 57 youth academies can no longer be relegated. You are set.

That means: No matter what results they achieve, they are guaranteed their place in the top league in the following season.

Performance centers are not only maintained by clubs in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga, but also by clubs such as SV Meppen, Energie Cottbus, Kickers Offenbach and Würzburger Kickers, who play in the 4th division with their men’s teams.

The DFB justification: You want to reduce the pressure to get results and focus on individual development and support.

It’s just stupid that a European Championship or World Cup is about results again…

2023-08-04 17:08:49
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