Russian sports paper Sport-Express claims that Barcelona will sign Lokomotiv Moscow youth goalkeeper Timur Akmurzin (11).
After Barcelona had received excellent scouting reports on Akmurzin, the club closed a deal and the Russian goalkeeper has recently moved to Barcelona, where he isstudying and playing with the youth teams.
Once Akmurzin has turned 12 later this year, Barcelona will offer the youth player a contract and pay him a scholarship.
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Friday, 23 January 2009
Youth: Russian goalkeeper joins Barcelona
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i hope this is true,so that he would be a great inclusion.
I know this is good for our team and that we get him very cheap now if het would be a great talent, but I can't help thinking that this is a bad evolution in soccer.
I think there should be a transfer age limit, because taking really kids away is not really the way it should go.
This also happens to us (especially all these English teams, with the french major in front) and it really feels like a steel.
i think it's ok,if lokomotiv agreed.
I dont see a problem if a young player is given a scholarship and an opportunity. I have a problem with arsenal swooping in to sign our 16 year old players because they can offer contracts to 16 year olds in england and the age to offer contracts in spain in 17.I have problems with our players who have signed a contract disappearing and turning up in england. Arsenal should have been banned for that. How would they have liked it if adebayor disappeared from arsenal's training ground and turned up in spain with barcelona?
Im torn on this subject.
On one hand, its a fantastic opportunity for that kid, getting a schollarship etc.
But... I find it realy dangerous that you recruit someone that young and move him across an entire continent.
Mind you, Im not only talking about Barca here, but the entire system sometimes smells a bit too much like a human cattlemarket. There is no way to know how big an influence agents/third parties has when it comes to these kind transfers. Its a shady buisness and Id say the possbility of players/families and even clubs end up with the short end of the deal...
Guys the kid wasn´t beaten up into it. Infact I´m sure he´s thrilled to play at Barça, and his parents will even be more happy with the chance and scolarship. This aquiry is a two way deal. If both parties are happy then there shudn´t be an issue.
In essence, I couldnt agree more with you FCBFan. But I think you are missing my point.
While this sort of arangement is sertainly a good one for both the prospective player and his family (specialy if they are coming from a poor country) I would very much like to raise the warning flag.
Recruiting someone as young as 12 can be very damaging, for both club but more so the player. At that age, there is no way to know if talent evolves into skill. For a very crude comparison; Look at Bojan, or even more so, look at Iago, Pedro, Sanchez.... They are nowhere near the starting XI but they are still atleast 6-7 years older than 12.
Hell, my brother had some sweet skills with the ball when he was 9, but he went for basketball instead. And now, 5 years later, I know he cant make it in either sport.
Thats the problem. Recruiting someone this young, at the mere age of 12, is perhaps not a big risk for the club, but it is a very strange reality for the player and his family. Nothing is sertain, we know that by simply looking at Bojan.
It takes a lot more than hard work to succeed in football these days.
This is what I react to. I feel a club giving a 12 years old kid a contract-to-be is is not quite moraly allright. And even thou he might be better off getting that schollarship, well, there is still the matter of child labour.
Signing a 12 yearold in hopes of him becoming the next messi has its dangers. But more so, it it dubious in terms of morality.
Think of it this way: The transfermarket is allready crazy as it is. 100mil £ for Kaká? Arsenal signing spanish 16yearolds cause spanish clubs cant offer them prof contracts before 17..
All of this, and so much more... Do we realy need to bring the young ones into this carouselle?
Im not against kids focusing on a profesional career at early age, not at all. In fact, id encourage it. Here in sweden, we have have had a loathe for anything professional when it comes to children. The thing is, we would not have had a player like Zlatan if he had not decided to go pro at a young age.
Ah well.. I guess what Im trying to say is that let children be children. Let them grow up with their friends, speaking their language, doing their tricks.
Time comes, eventualy, when childhood is over and you have to focus on a career.
I don't think the kid is being deprived of his childhood and as mentioned he has signed with
the consent of his parents. I agree that it is a very early age but footballers can't play until they are forty. Most leading sports mean you have to start and sacrifice at an early at to be a success. Look at gymnatics, kids as early as 7 or 8 years old are sent to specialist schools and put on stringent regimes. This could be a great opportunity for the boy to achieve great things for him and his family. He can only grow as a person in this environment. He will get an education, learn diffent languages, learn to respect and work in a team etc. There are many, many benefits he most likely would never have had a chance in Russia. Peace out.
I agree with Aussie Barca. The kid obviously loves his football, otherwise he wouldn't be as good as he is. He has a fantastic opportunity now to make the most of his potential at one of the greatest academies in the world. Good for him.
Now, how does a kid get noticed like that?
Kwoz
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