Davy Klaassen

As many Football fans around the world would well know, Ajax are renowned for turning youngsters through there academy, year upon year. Placing another unknown commodity in to the First Team line up. In recent years players such as Cristian Eriksen who have now moved on to Spurs and Gregory Van Der Wiel who is currently at French giants Paris Saint Germain.

But the name that has been boosted about or been thrown around in the papers is that of young Dutch U21 midfielder Davy Klaassen. Klaassen began his early stages of development in football playing for his local amateur side HVV de Zebra’s, where he developed further and further before joining HSV Wasmeer in 2003 after spending 4 years his local side. After spending just one year with HSV Wasmeer clearly impressing the scout that went to watch Davy, where he was then recruited by Ajax after a successful trail with the Dutch giants. Klasseen was then placed in the Academy to further develop some of his outstanding attributes, such as. His technical ability with the ball at his feet and how he can dribbling the ball with such dominance and power, he also has a fantastic first touch which allows him to dictate some phases of play for Ajax.

After signing for Ajax Davy was left to develop under the watchful eye of at that current time, Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp funny that being the player who recently Klaassen has been compared to. With Bergkamp’s former club said to be keeping an eye on the progress in which Davy is making. And where recently seen at his performance NAC Breda where Klaassen scored a marvelous hat-trick. It will most certainly be interesting to see if Davy will be include as a surprise player for Holland’s World Cup squad.

Davy has broke in to the Ajax first team set up under Frank De Boer, with some outstanding performance somewhat keeping him in the squad. Klaassen has played only 15 times for Ajax but scoring in 10 of those occasions, with the experience head of Siem De Jong helping the progression of the player in the centre of the pitch.

Take a look at Klaassen’s hat-trick >>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDhq1er35qc

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Alen Halilovic

With Croatia recently qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil, earning there place in the playoffs after defeating Iceland. Many are starting to build on there excitement of what young player will be a stand out figure, that being the case if selected for Croatia teenage sensation Alen Halilovic will most definitely be a name on every bodies lips. Halilovic is still only 17 years old but has such a major vibe about his play when he is in possession of the ball, Alen currently plays for Croatian giants Dinamo Zagreb where he is the youngest ever player to scoring for the club and also in the Croatian League, furthermore he is the youngest play who has made an appearance for his nation.

Halilovic stand at 5ft 7in which makes him the same size as Lionel Messi, which is quite adequate seeing as he has been dubbed as the ‘Croatian Messi’. Halilovic has an amazing ability to drop his shoulder and accelerate past players with ease, being that he has a low centre of gravity considering his height he can keep the ball very close to his feet and is hard to push off of the ball or even tackle. Halilovic has played 35 times for Zagreb scoring 2 in those occassions, he has also represented his country at U14, 15, 16, 17 level.

With interest growing in Halilovic coming from a host of Premier League clubs including Arsenal and Spurs, with other european clubs such a Barcelona and Real Madrid also battling for the signature of Halilovic, one can only consider that this young man has a very bright future.

Take a look at Halilovic’s ability >>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuXE8VH_8q8

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Can Youngster Marco Reus Have An Impact For Germany in Brazil ?

With the draw being made many are getting excited at the prospect of entertaining games, with Germany and Portugal being placed in the same group along with Spain and Holland, England and Italy. What is also increasing exciting is who will be the stand out player for there country and what player or youngster will creep out for the woodwork for there country.

With Germany being tipped as one of the favourites to win in South America, as they have an extremely eye catching line up with talent in abundance in which to pick from, even there second string squad would indeed provide a challenge for most teams in the tournament. The main player that will be interesting to watch will be that of Marco Reus as he has developed an unbelievable amount since leaving Borussia Mönchengladbach to German giants Borussia Dortmund. Reus has become the spear head figure and the vocal point of many of Dortmund’s attacking moves this year, Klopp has turned the young German in to somewhat a leader of his side where they look to play most of there Football linking between him and Robert Lewandowski.

Reus has recently started to break in to Joachim Löw’s German side where he has provide a number of impressive performances, since making his debut for Deutschland on May 6th of 2010 he has played a played a total of 19 games scoring 7 times in those occasions. Therefore leading to his recent run of appearances for his country. At the tender age of 24 year old and a lot to still learn in terms of when to release the ball and play in to centre forwards some would say be lacks the majority, this not being the case. Reus is not what you would regard as the winger of this day and age like, the Ronaldo and Bale’s of his generation where they a powerful when dribbling and running at pace with the ball. Marco is a completely different player being that he has a great eye for a through ball, has great positional play in the sense that when playing for Dortmund he seems to be the player that always starts off there attacks. Reus is a skinny figure but has the Footballing brain that most Germans possess.

As he is able to play in the hole behind the centre forward an attacking midfielder or a false 9 or just off of the centre forward in wide areas either left or right . Marco can all produce some mesmerising strikes at time out of know where, this being a link to his great ability to take a free kick, with his great technique being able to whip the ball up and over the ball with such pace and swerve. Reus will without doubt be a player you should keep your eye on when the World Cup begins on the 12th of June and his country Germany beginning there campaign against Portugal on Monday the 16th.

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