Arsenal Under 16 defender Daniel Boateng has snubbed the advances of the England youth team, to pledge his allegiance towards the country of his families origin, Ghana.
The highly rated Boateng has established himself as one of the most promising central defenders around, and naturally international honers will beckon. England Under 16 coach Kenny Swain had indicated his desire to include the London born youngster in his squad for future fixtures, but after consulting his parents over the summer, has confirmed he will make himself available for Emmanuel Kwasi Afranie’s team.
“I have made the choice to play for Ghana and my decision is final,”
“I want to give something back to Ghana and I also know that playing for the country will also help enhance my career.”
Boateng believes the experience gained whilst be trained by the Gunners staff means he will be a huge success on the international scene, and spoke of his ambition to follow in the foot steps of the current Ghanaian stars.
“It is true that the English system gave me a lot in training but my heart is with Ghana where my parents come from.”
“Fantastic players like Essien, Appiah and Mensah who did not have the facilities we have in England have come out of the country and excelled and I am sure I will do the same.”
Daniel is a left footed centre back, who can also feature at left back or in midfield. He was part of the successful Arsenal team which beat Juventus to win the Atalanta Cup during the summer, and will be looking to step up to Steve Bould’s competitive Under 18s next year.
You can read more about Daniel Here.
Article By – J.Sanderson
Good work fella
J. Didnt Arsenal have another lad called Danny Boateng about 8 years ago on their books? What ever happend to him? Thanks
He should be encouraged. In a day and age when many players choose the easy or more lucrative option, choosing to play for his African international side shows good character. Too often rich nations take their pick of global players, and African sides often have their best players skimmed off.
I always think that when a player chooses his country of origin it is a sign of maturity and strong-will. Best of luck to him, it is certainly exciting to have players like Nordveit and Boateng in the making at Arsenal. JS, Nordveit is more a Sol Campbell type of player or a Tony Adams replica. I always compared him to Steve Bould, what’s your take?
J. are there more youth players at Arsenal of Morrocan origin besides Nacer Barazite?!!
hello mate do u know if there are any asian footballers in the youth setup because we seem to have alot of Black and white players. Aren there any asian footballers
john, I heard Arsenal have links with some youth teams in vietnam or something like that. Anyway we may see more Asians in the future.
It is strange though that there aren’t more players of Asian descent, especially with the large population of Indian (/Pakistani/Bangledeshi etc.) people in the inner cities. Wonder why that is? I can’t think of one in the premiership, which seems crazy. I know there aren’t as many as white or black folk and there are bend it like beckham cliches, but you’d think a couple would slip through like we are starting to get some play cricket proffesionally.
i know lots of qualiy asian footbalers but the problem is the culture, asian parents want thier kids to be doctors, lawayers accountants a job that is suitable and recoginiziable.
Anyway is there any arsenal youngster in arsenal under 16 who is a real top player that other clubs like chelsea or manutd are after? Do we have a messi type player a dribbler?
Fair play to this lad, i really hope that he does well and i am sure that he will be a success for Ghana and Arsenal. Will be a pity if he makes it though cos we will lose him for the African cup of nations but oh well i still hope he does well!
That makes no sense what i just said haha! I meant it’s a shame we would lose him for the cup not a pity if he actually made it with Arsenal.
jack wi;shere
John I would agree with nr790 and previous notes by J Sanderson Jack Wilshere looks an outstanding tallent.
but u dont hear about jack wilshere being linked with barcelona i ma talking about the best player arsenal have in the youth setup who could play for a real madrid or barca. If u look at Barca they have terrific young players, messi, kirkic, iago
Barcelona are looking for talented youth players from south america and Africa rather than from England. 1. They settle better than English players and 2. they’re more talented as they are true street footballers.
I hope Jack wilshere does well but the player i am really looking foward to is Nicklas bendtner if adebayor leaves than this kid may step up. I have been watching this kid from the reserves and i was thought he was better than luopli and quicny owusua baeyie cause he has the inteligence to play and has the physical attributes. He use to set up lupoli all the time, beating players slipping passes and is like a bergkamp with electric pace.
Also is it me or do arsenal lack wingers in the youth setup especially english wingers- we have sanchez watt whos decent, is jack wilshere a winger?-or a second striker-playmaker, we need wingers
Jack Wilshire is either going to be a Winger or a Forward playing in the hole. He likes to drift in to the centre, which is something that Wenger emphasises. I really hope that they can keep the hype off this lad till he is 18-19, we all know what that does to young English players (step forward Bentley, Pennant et al). He is quite slight in build and will need to spend the next 2 years building himself up if he plans to play in the premiership.
Hey J. Sanderson is one of the two Arsenal ladies that left for Chelsea family of yours?!! Even the ladies are leaving Arsenal now :P What do you reckon the chances are that Hleb and Adebayor are staying… I think their quit high as it seems Wenger is detirmined to hold on to them!! With the inclusion of Nasri todat at 5 pm (wishfull thinking) we will have a large but talented squad to compete for all the titles next season don’t you think?!!
Lol, wishfull thinking :)
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this nasri thing is now officially a f*cking joke!
After 10 days. Keep the faith……..
10 days is hes agent waiting as long as he can incase another offer turns up or has nasri signed pre-contract i hope samir has a good personality and is not a hot headed or big headed first inpression is that hes ok but who knows
If Wenger really want Samir, he will get him. And he is interested in Nasri…
14th July… FFS! since when has he been on his holiday anyway?
god sake why not sign before you go on holiday? what a bloody joke this is now. it was 99% done about 2 months ago so its from then to now to get the other 1%. JOKE!
What a frace. Whats even more amazing is that the club has allowed it to get to this stage. Any big club would have told Nasri to sign or fuck off. More proof that we are nothing but small fry and no wonder our star palyers want to leave. Cesc to Barca next season is nailed on.
I agree with Dave. why are we letting rubbish like marseille dictate when we can sign player etc. man utd or chelsea would have signed Nasri within a couple of days, but not us we take about 3 months to sign him. total rubbish. cesc will leave and im sure clichy will realise signing a new contract was mistake and go and join real madrid.
Some of you need to get a life, does it matter when Nasri actually signs? To my knowledge the deal is wrapped up but Arsenal want to do photographs and make sure everything is smooth before we announce it. Let the kid have a long holiday, give him a break so he is fresh for next season.
Why does it matter if he signs today, or if he signs during pre season. All I know is, he will play for Arsenal in August if he signs today, and he will still play for Arsenalin August if he signs on July 14th…Same Difference…
what player did manutd already sign?
Calm the f**k down. Agent says 10 days, we wait 10 days and hope it’s true.
Not much we can do about it by moaning and having an underhanded pop at the club and gaffer imo.
Karl its not a case of having to wait another 10 days tahts the problem. Its the constant source of crap and lies from various individual including ones from the clubs themselves that has made this whole saga a farce and a disgrace. Laughable its not. Calm down we are just a tad bit pissed off for being mis led on more than 20 occasions.
Relax, guys! Rome wasn’t built in a day… I think that Nasri signed a pre-agreement, just the announcement is delaying. Or can you remember Zidane’s move from the Juventus to Real Madrid? And who is Nasri? (The new-Zidane :P) If Wenger wants him, he will catch him. And I think the Arsenal need a such young and great player, as Nasri. And if he will score i.e. 20 goals in the new season, everyone will forget this saga.So let’s wait 10 days. If we could wait from May, these ten days won’t matter. I am also angry with Nasri, but he is a great player, and I think he will join to Arsenal within days. (As Pape Diouf said on Wednesday. He said firstly “two days”, but after said “within days.”)
Its a smart choice in many ways, but the two main reasons are that:
A. Getting into the Ghanaian youth sides and even the fist team one day wont be as hard as getting into the England side.
B. Because england have so many players right accross the board (and i dont care what any1 says about foreigners in the prem and 20% english kinda shit, we have lots of options) he’ll probably be given far more attention whilst coming throu the Ghana ranks and closer more personal guidance.
E.g. for the first team barring injuries and bad form for CB we have:
Terry, Ferdinand, Woodgate, King, Dawson, Wheater, Campbell (dont think hes retired yet and hes doin ok for Portsmouth), Davies (i think he’ll become a great player, seems really driven and at the same time humble and self critical, which can help him come a long way), Richards, Lesscott, Jagielka… and ive probably missed some1.
He is center half and they are ten a penny at youth level
Our centre backs next season will be senderos, nordveit, toure and gallas, djourou is not good enough he needs experience looks very vulnerable. I hope havard nordveit can do a job
“djourou is not good enough he needs experience looks very vulnerable.”
He looks ok for the reserves but ill admit for Birmingham he had a couple of shockers. However if ur saying Djourou needs more experiance u can hardly then say Nordtveit is ready to act as direct back-up after Sendaros, having never played a first team game yet. Nordtveit will probably only get games in the CC next season, maybe a league debut u neva know but hes not guna b fourth choice, Djourou and Song (if wenger continues to consider him a CB) will both be ahead of him, making him 6th choice first team centre back.
J do you have a sister?
“J do you have a sister?”
Lol…ive been wanting to ask the same thing, it clicked a few days back when some1 asked him y his sister had left for Chelsea…
I don’t know why everybody says Bendtner is bad, He scored ppriceless goals for us eg. Everton Wigan.
He could be the next ade, mind you but arsenal will Not sign a striker, we have : Vela Van Persie Adebayor (No offers for him anymore) Bendtner Eduardo Barazite Thats 6. ONLY IF ADE GOES WILL ARSENAL SIGN A STRIKER!!!!!!!!!
I agree johnny What a traitor, by the way where is J? :(
Haven’t seen him on the blogs
“I don’t know why everybody says Bendtner is bad, He scored ppriceless goals for us eg. Everton Wigan.
He could be the next ade, mind you but arsenal will Not sign a striker, we have : Vela Van Persie Adebayor (No offers for him anymore) Bendtner Eduardo Barazite Thats 6. ONLY IF ADE GOES WILL ARSENAL SIGN A STRIKER!!!!!!!!!”
I agree
“I agree johnny What a traitor, by the way where is J? :(
Haven’t seen him on the blogs”
Duno, hope he hasnt let all this Nasri bollocks get to him but somehow i doubt it.
Thanks Johnny mate. A source says: Arsenal are close to signing David SILVA for $15 million
“A source says: Arsenal are close to signing David SILVA for $15 million”
Crist, if we can get him for 15mil then that would be a good bit of buisness cuz hes gotta be worth about 25mil, especially after him Euro exploits.
Still duno how much i want him, i admire his playing ability but i dont know if hes any better than Ade and hes not close to Van Persie, who, if fit will be massive next season and over his whole time at the club (hopefully a very long time).
his euro exploits*
Signing Villa would also signal the end of either Bendtner, Vela, Eduardo or Barazites Arsenal careers, as we’d have 6 first team players for 1 position and 1 kid ready to break throu but no space for him.
Ade stays and you’ll all be singing for him next season, can’t see why people would want Santa Cruz instead. It’s not for nothing AC Milan and Barcelona want to pay big bucks for him. He’s a nuique striker who can be a legend for us. People question his loyalty because he wants to get paid more. I think it’s not that weird that he wants to get paid more… It’s how the world of football works these days. I don’t want Arsenal to participate in buying players for million like Chelsea etc. But we should adjust our wage structure in order to keep our players. We can’t keep losing them because we don’t pay well, I’d rather keep 2 players by giving them a payrise than spending million on others who will take time to settle and once they settle they will want more money as well.
You heard it here first…. Van Persie not to play striker for AFC….. I know you’ll be worried when you see this… He will play along th wings. as a replacement for rosicky. 5 strikers 2 position
Yea we’ll i still dont know how much truth there is in all this pay rise gossip going around. Doesnt fit with his personality and if hes asking for a pay rise i doubt hes asking for a 400% rise like people are saying, he’s probably just asking to be put in the top wage bracket Arsenal offer its players (about 60k i believe).
well*
christ…cnt type today. A combination of insomnia, smoking roll-ups and depressing 90s music.
“Van Persie not to play striker for AFC….. I know you’ll be worried when you see this… He will play along th wings. as a replacement for rosicky.”
I hope u mean Hleb unless Rosicky is suddenly upping sticks and jumping ship aswell.
Line up:
GK Almunia
RB Sagna
LB Clichy
CB Toure
CB Zapata
RM Walcott or Vela
CM Veloso
AMF Fabregas
LM Van Persi
ST Adebayor or Bendter
ST Eduardo or Walcott
from seeing djorou u get an impression hes not a CB i havent seen nordevit but he might do a good job
Lads my thoughts are similar to above – the NAsri transfer is massive compared to normal wenger buys. If im right it will be a transfer record for the club. A pre-contract has been signed with him and he is like most players on Holiday after the Euros. Id say he will sign once wenger is back at pre season he will unveil him and do the usual photos.
Johnny Maverik – I think Djourou is a lot better than most think. Before he went to Birmingham he had a few games next to, Toure I think it was, and he looked good. He is inexperienced, he needs to be next to someone to learn and take confidence from. The guy is very talented, I think it’s just lack of confidence which is holding him back. If he gets a few games next to Gallas or Toure, a run of games, I think he would push his way into first team contention. It’s all very well putting him in the carling cup team, but that just puts massive pressure on him, and does not allow him to settle into the team. He is never going to be what I call the ‘first centreback’, the tony adams type who leads from the front, wins every ball and tackle…if he makes it, it will be as the ‘second centreback’ more in the style of Kolo, covering the other centre back with his pace, tracking the runs of opposition strikers, interceptions etc. To have a top quality defence, you need to have a balance of these players (that is why Gallas and Toure does not work in my opinion, and why Gallas looked a much better player when Terry was next to him) Also, we need to remember that Johan is still young in terms of a centreback…
Why was that directed to me? I basically said the same thing and said it was Nordtviet who will be playing CC next season, not Djourou who i see as back-up for Toure.
People react the same as they did when Kanu came to Arsenal. Yes he isn’t the striker who will convert every chance but he is far more inportant than that. Last season when we lacked goals from our midfielders he was there to compensate. We didn’t have a pires, overmars to score 15+ goals a season. RVP and Eduardo were missing most of the season, these guys can be good for 15+ goals a season each. Adebayor gives a dimension to Arsenal’s free flowing game. When we needed a physical presence in certain games he was there to fullfill that role and giving the opposition defenders a torrid time. But he’s more than that for his lenght he is a tricky and reasonably fast player. His technique is quite good. The only thing he lacks in is his passing and heading although you can see he was improving as the season went on. Adebayor is an important part of the Arsenal machine that conquered the world with their beautiful football. People really need to wake up and shouldn’t believe every single report in the news. If everything was true than Messi would really play for Zenith and Zidane would already have made 3 comebacks.
lenght = height sorry I’m from Holland sometimes I include Dutch words :P
“lenght = height sorry I’m from Holland sometimes I include Dutch words”
Lol, dnt worry about it, i live in portugal so im used to people mixing languages, although i dont speek dutch atall so i wouldent have know it meant height.
Also on the Nasri situation, who knows what is happening…and to be honest, who cares! ‘Dave’ and ‘Me’, you need to get a life. Saying that we are being messed around by Marseille just makes you look very naive…you don’t know that is the reason, you are just fishing it out of thin air in another angry rant. Have you thought that MAYBE it is us delaying the transfer until we have the cash? Maybe we want to sort out the Hleb & Adebayor sagas before making any other signings. Maybe Wenger is putting all his interest into those issues and has just told Nasri to go away on holiday for a well earned rest…thankfully, football clubs main interest is in being successful, and they put the players interests, and the health of the team first…not, the massed ranks of doom-mongers who blight this blog…
sorry mate, made a schoolboy error of thinking the quote you included was part of your comment…incidentally, on the Djourou situation, he seems to have set his heart on playing what he thinks of as his best position; central mid… maybe that’s why Wenger hasn’t dipped into the transfer market (yet) to replace Flamini, maybe he is going to trial Djourou there…
“maybe that’s why Wenger hasn’t dipped into the transfer market (yet) to replace Flamini, maybe he is going to trial Djourou there”
Very possible, hes played there for the reserves and had some very good games aswell, scored a couple from what i remember. Possibly he’ll switch with Song? As in Song will be back-up defender after Sendaros and Djourou will play midfield, either back up for who ever steps in for Flamini or even (although this is unlikely) might manage to grab the position himself.
Hello guys, i was testing out a new idea where i can write an article.. set a date to publish it and it does it without me needing to turn my computer on.
pumpd – haha ;) i do have a sister.. but its not Lianne
Mouhsin – We have a boy called Samir Carruthers he is also of Morrocan descent.
News coming out of barcelona adebayor and eto to swap clubs and aresnal set to get an extra 6 million pounds.
Boateng seems like a fair lad, hope he becomes successful :)
“Lol, dnt worry about it, i live in portugal so im used to people mixing languages, although i dont speek dutch atall so i wouldent have know it meant height.”
Haha it’s good to see Arsenal fans internationally represented at this great Blog (courtey to J. Sanderson not the brother of the girl who left Arsenal Ladies for Chelsea :P) What do you think should we keep a hold of Adebayor and give him an improved contract or should we cash in on him?!!
Going back to Barca and Real wanting our youngsters that u lot were talking about earlier. J, i got a mate who has known Sanchez Watt his whole life and is still in contact with him. He told me about two weeks ago that Wenger has already told Sanchez that he will more than likely get CC run-outs next season and that BARCELONA were very interested in signing him a couple of months back. You know anything about this or is this news to you mate? Even if u don’t know anything about it at least say that please mate cos i want some sort of indication as to his potential talent. (Basically if Barca were interested in him whilst boasting the best youth set-up in the world then they’ve obviously been enticed by something remarkable about the boy). Cheers mate.
“Mouhsin – We have a boy called Samir Carruthers he is also of Morrocan descent.”
Great he must be half English Half morrocan with that surname. Can you tell me more about him. Age, Position. prospect, is he already the best player in his squad?!! Thnx for the reply and what is your opinion on Adebayor, maybe you can read back the two comments I posted and give a comment?!!
Cheers and as we say in Holland “Boks ouwe!”
Yep
You can read more about him here
http://youngguns.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/young-gunners-profile-samir-carrurthers/
Thnx man appreciate it!
TJ – when he was in the Under 15s + 16s he was really highly rated, and was probably the most talented prospect around. Injuries have really hampered him this season, but he has been given a pro deal showing his potential.
I dont know about the CC, but he is certainly somebody to watch out for.
me you are a twat
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J – great site, great articles. What’s your opinion of our stock of young defenders. Back-up to our starting 4 will be Senderos, Song, Traore, Nordtveit, plus Djourou (where will AW play him?), Hoyte J, and Gilbert’s name is still listed.
So how do you rate the defenders lining up in Reserves/U-18 this season and who are best of them?
ghana are better than england thats why he wants to play for us