Newcastle United Still Pursuing Top Youngsters
News today that Newcastle United are continuing to scour the globe for young talent to bring to Tyneside.
Kyriakos Papadopoulos - impressive 16 year-old Greek center back
The latest player to come to the attention of Newcastle is Greek youngster Kryiakos Papadopoulos, who is a central defender.However the youngster is also attracting attention from big guns Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and others.
The 16 year-old center back is considered one of the best defensive prospects in European football at the moment.
Kyriakos Papadopoulos, who will be 17 next February, is currently at Greek club Olympiacos, and is part of the Greek national youth team. Kryiakos was signed from Svoronos Katerinis and was promoted from the Olympiacos youth team in July of 2007 to the Olympiacos first team squad - he’s that good for one so young.
The 16 year-old has so far played in several Olympiacos pre-season friendlies, three league games and three Greek cup games for the first team. He is one of the 10 most talented young players in Europe as considered by UEFA - we’ll keep tabs on this promising 6’0” tall youngster.
And we found out yesterday that Newcastle did indeed sign 15 year old whiz kid Aaron Spear from Plymouth at the end of the summer transfer window, because the lad turned out as a 73rd minute substitute in the Newcastle Under-18 side’s 3-1 win over Barnsley yesterday at Benton. Manager Joe Kinnear and coach Chris Hughton were both there to watch our impressive youngsters in action.
Let’s hope we keep going after these young lads like Spear and Nile Ranger, when the new owners arrive. Nile scored three in that game and is looking to be an exciting prospect for the club. We will need to recruit some new people for the jobs, but there must be quite a few experienced scouts who would love to join Newcastle in that role.
Comments welcome.
Tags: Newcastle News · Newcastle Youth · Recruitment
League Position
Pos Team Pld GD Pts
13 Man City 20 8 22
14 Newcastle 19 -6 22
15 Sunderland 20 -8 22
Goals
Player PL FAC CC Total
Owen 7 0 2 9
Martins 6 0 0 6
Ameobi 3 0 0 3
N'Zogbia 2 0 1 3
Duff 2 0 0 2
Guthrie 2 0 0 2
Milner 1 0 0 1
Taylor 1 0 0 1
Barton 1 0 0 1
Xisco 1 0 0 1
Edgar 1 0 0 1
PL – Premier league
FAC – FA Cup
CC – Carling Cup
Injuries
Player Injury Return
Smith Achilles Jan09
Ngo Baheng ACL Knee Jan09
González Achilles Mar09
Dates are return to training
Dr. Ed Harrison is a retired IBM Consulting Group Executive who now has time, and lots of it, after 34 years at the American computer company, to write about his lifelong passion - Newcastle United Football Club.
Ed was born and bred in Newcastle Upon Tyne, and watched his first game at St. James’ Park in 1949 as a 4 year-old with his Mother and Father. He was told to look out for number 9 - Jackie Milburn – the great Wor Jackie - and was he fast!
In football terms Ed was a goalkeeper and played for Wharrier Street Primary School and Newcastle Minors (Newcastle Schoolboys Under-11), in 1956 and went on to play for Newcastle Schoolboys and Northumberland Schoolboys (Under-15) in 1959 and an England Schoolboys trial.
He was at Newcastle United for a couple of years from 1960 as an amateur, while still at school, and played with Bobby Moncur and David Craig, amongst others, for the Newcastle United Under-18 side (Newcastle N’s in those days), during the relegation season of 1960-1961.
Ed attended Heaton Technical and Manor Park schools, and then went on to study at both King’s College, London (BSc Electrical Engineering) and Newcastle University (PhD Computer Science). He played for Newcastle Universities and England Universities from 1967 until 1970.
But a short couple of years after Ed joined IBM in 1970, he was shipped over to the USA, with his new wife Madeline, a beautiful local Newcastle lassie.
At IBM Ed was in computer systems and network design for 34 years, and in his last 10 years at the company was persuaded to enter executive management. where he ended up running IBM's Americas' Network Consulting Group for 5 years from the late 1990s, and was instrumental in forming the IBM alliance with Cisco Systems in 1999.
Ed and Madeline live just outside Raleigh in North Carolina. Their twin sons Paul and Neil, and daughter Elaine, are now in their early 30s, live close by, and Neil has carried on the family tradition by becoming an avid Newcastle United supporter.
And one final thing that is so true - you can take the boy out of Newcastle but you can't take Newcastle out of the boy!
Howay The Lads!!
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12 responses so far ↓
1 Leo // Oct 19, 2008 at 12:16
cracking, good to see our youngsters are doing well because they are our future.
just need to see some better young central midfielders because we dont really have that bar guthrie
2 Chris F // Oct 19, 2008 at 12:20
i doubt we really are after him, not if the club is about to be sold.
same old unimaginative newspaper tripe, if they need to fill a couple more lines they just chuck a couple of random team names in there to take up the space.
3 cause I got the girth // Oct 19, 2008 at 12:26
“The latest player to come to the attention of Newcastle is Greek youngster Kryiakos Papadopoulos”
who says?
article is about information on him, not about us scouting him! But still, love the sound of us continuing in this vain, think everyone is in agreement that this is one thing the club has improved since Ashley has came!! Wise out!!! Ohh….hang on….who signed these players???? lol
4 azim // Oct 19, 2008 at 12:58
the only good thing has done by MA is our youth academy
5 beyethegreat // Oct 19, 2008 at 13:05
girth i posted an article yesterday about him coming to us
6 Spyro // Oct 19, 2008 at 13:29
Nile continues to look good i see
7 Spyro // Oct 19, 2008 at 13:30
Beye
can i see the article please
8 Terry // Oct 19, 2008 at 14:45
Center back? I thought you were a “proud Geordie”, Ed? If so it should be centre back.
9 Greg B // Oct 20, 2008 at 0:00
On the subject of our youth players would anyone agree with me that if indeed we are light up front for tonights match against Man City I would rather see Nile Ranger get a crack than Ameobi?
I dont like to slag players off but Ameobi is predictable, yes he will run the lines and he is always a goal threat but Rangers form has to be taken seriously, I think he could be ready for the step up given the circumstances (ie. no Owen, Viduka etc.
10 chuck // Oct 20, 2008 at 0:50
Terry
You prefer the original French version to the US version, Centre Vs. center, whats the big deal ? There is no Geordie version , jerk !
11 Sav // Oct 20, 2008 at 1:22
Apart from the notion this kid could be Dabizas’ love-child, how is he ‘linked’ with Newcastle?
Ashley has said he’s spending no more and tbh, we have more urgent things to spend 3 million (we don’t have) on than a 16 year-old prospect.
12 Ausgeordie // Oct 20, 2008 at 12:19
Good news on the younster front. This Nile Ranger kid is playing well enough to warrant some first team time. Put him on the bench and give him a shot if Ameobi starts to fail or Martins gets injured
My team for today
……………….Given
Beye…Collo…..Taylor …..Bassong
Geremi………Guthrie……..Zogbia
…………Jonas………..Duff
……………..Martins
Harper, Butt, Xisco, Ranger, Enrique, Edgar
………..