Gidi Lipkin
El Yam Kanzapolsky in the Youth League (Omri Stein)
The Football Association intends to establish a development league starting next season, ONE first learned. The goal is that all players who have completed youth, and fall between the end of youth and integration into the senior team, will be able to participate in this league that will train them and give them a framework.
In recent years, there have been dozens of players who retired from football because they were unable to integrate directly into the senior team. The goal is for this league to receive professional scientific guidance, and to give players all the tools they need so they can jump from the league to the senior team. On Thursday, a serious discussion took place on the matter, the one who leads the establishment and the positive initiative is the veteran football man, Avi Kaufman, chairman of the youth committee of the Football Association.
It is still unclear how many players from the senior team will be able to join the league. Talk about between one and four, when there are several teams that oppose the inclusion of adult players so as not to create a load for them. By the way, age exceptions in the case of the establishment of the league will no longer be able to play in the youth league. The Football Association is now working to obtain funding for the establishment of the league.
The intention is for the league to be two rounds without a playoff, when the games will be in the middle of the week when the teams do not then have other games in frameworks such as the state cup, etc. Such a league is very important in the development of the player. There has been talk for years about establishing this league, and it seems that it now has more support than before to carry it out.
