Michael Kenrick 30/09/2024 6comments  |  Jump to last

The bulk of Everton's U18s players are in South Korea this week as the club is one of four European participants in the K-League International Youth Cup, 2024 

The venue is Incheon, just west of Seoul, and the competition runs from 28 September to 4 October, featuring games between K-League youth sides and elite European teams.

Now in its second year, the Youth Cup is organized by the Korea Professional Football League in association with the Incheon Metropolitan City Football Association, and enjoys sponsorship from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea Sports Promotion Foundation, and Incheon Metropolitan City.

This year, 12 teams are participating, comprising 5 K-League youth teams (FC Seoul, Suwon Samsung, Busan I'Park, Incheon United, Jeonbuk Hyundai), 4 prestigious European clubs (Everton FC, FC Augsburg, Real Sociedad, RCD Espanyol), and 2 Asian teams (Kashiwa Reysol, Shandong Taishan), alongside Bupyeong High School, invited by the Incheon Metropolitan Football Association.

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Only players in the Under-17 age bracket, born after 1 January 2007, will take part in the shortened 70-minute games. The teams will be divided into two groups for the initial round, followed by the final where the top teams from each group will clash. Group stage matches will unfold at Incheon Munhak Stadium and Incheon Asiad Auxiliary Stadium, culminating in the final on 4 October 4  at Munhak Stadium.

Fixtures and Results so far (with links to YouTube match streams):

28 September @ 15:00 RCD Espanyol 1 - 2 Everton U17s

29 September @ 16:00 Everton U17s 1 - 4 Jeonbuk Hyundai

30 September @ 15:00 Everton U17s 1 - 3 FC Seoul

 

 

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Michael Kenrick
1 Posted 30/09/2024 at 13:21:50
No doubt only for the academy die-hards, this stuff. Not a dickiebird on the Official Club Website, of course.

Video streams are the whole of each game but only from a central camera, with no commentary and no teamsheet.

Braeden Corkery
2 Posted 01/10/2024 at 02:15:10
For anyone interested, a few of us on another forum managed to put the below together from the streams. Graham has looked excellent as expected, Gardner has been playing at CB and he’s clearly not comfortable. Couple of the U16 boys, Billington and Roberts in particular, have looked more than capable.

1 Lukjanciks (GK)
2 Lambert
3 Billington
4 Matos
5 Freedman or Finney
6 Gardner
7 Wren
8 Foster
9 Roberts
10 Graham
11 Stewart
12 Seve (GK)
14 Pita
15 Clarke
16 Moses
17 Poland
18 Akarakiri

Michael Kenrick
3 Posted 01/10/2024 at 14:10:08
That's excellent, thank you, Braeden.

I wonder if George Finney might be over the age limit for this one? Seems he's been around a lot longer than Freddie Freedman.

Strange that Ceiran Loney didn't make it — or is he on International duty with Scotand?

Braeden Corkery
4 Posted 01/10/2024 at 20:12:28
Loney is with, and starting for the Scotland squad.
Oliyawola (u16 forward) is also with the England squad, otherwise would have to imagine he would have been included in the squad as well
Dave Abrahams
5 Posted 03/10/2024 at 14:23:41
I think they got beat 5-3 by another Asian team today, there might be another game before they fly home, a play off for the minor postions!
Michael Kenrick
6 Posted 03/10/2024 at 18:36:30
Beaten by bloody highschool kids!

I thought there were six teams in each group, so I'm probably missing something from Day 4.

But I don't think anyone's that interested…

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