Why Oceania's Football Stars Struggle in Europe
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Published 2024-07-03
But where are those stars today? Nestoroy Irankunda has just been bought by BundesLiga side Bayern Munich. A talented young forward from Adelaide United, his future is looking bright.
But will he follow in the same footsteps taken by his predecessors - like Garang Kuol, Marco Tilio and Sarpreet Singh who have all experienced troubled arrivals to European football.
This is a video about football in Oceania, the A-League and young footballing talent taking the next step in their football career. It involves the Australian National Team, the New Zealand National Team, Nestoroy Irankunda, Bayern Munich, Adelaide United, transfer news and loan moves.
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All Comments (15)
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I think this is one of the many tragedies of modern football, in the past, big clubs would only buy a player when they were ready to perform for them. These days young players are an "investment" for the future, with a top tier club having 20 "wonder kids" on the books, for them, it does not matter if 95% of talents don't make it, as long as they find the next Pedri, Bellingham, Haaland or Yamal. A player, they invested 0.5~5million in, can reach 100 million market value in just a few years. And thus the European clubs keep bringing new, young players from all over the world, who are not yet ready or mature, give them at most 1~3 chances, and if the player doesn't SMASH all expectations, he will soon be in the never-ending loan cycle. Imagine that, being 17, coming to Europe, knowing no one, massive culture shock, and on top of that switching clubs every transfer window; it is no wonder at all these players fail, and when you think back to how good they were when they first broke through, it is easy to conclude that if given more time to mature and learn, their chances of success at top clubs would be exponentially higher. If Neymar came to Barca at 16~17, he would have flopped massively. Cool video again, thumbs up from me!
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i really hope irankunda succeeds in europe as bayern in my club and australia is my country
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You realise Australia hasn’t been in the OFC since 2006?
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I'm from adelaide and love nestor, when I first saw him play i knew he was going to be big but as us Aussies all know it's really hard for young players to succeed over in europe.
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If he was Brazilian he would already be in real madrids squad
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Australians know that if they fail they have something to fall back on by coming back to the a league. That and the culture shock of being so far removed from the juggernaut of European football.
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stamenic and garbett never played in the a league and are still in europe, stamenic just got signed to nottingham forest
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(1:45) It'll obviously be a challenge for him to learn to walk the right side up. But he's young and athletic so I've no doubt he'll adjust to living on the top side of the globe.
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to be honest its to early for him to go he should have gone to a champion ship club or a L1 club but if i was him i would do the same you cant say no
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Remember Freddy Adu
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Ok
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Clickbait thumbnail, basic facts incorrect such as Australia being in AFC not Oceania, shallow analysis that offers nothing we haven't heard before, AND failing to mention the massive injury issues most of the players mentioned have had... This video fails, whilst Irankunda is winning having just made his debut and scored his first goal for Bayern 2.
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I enjoyed this analysis. I would suggest not doing the whole "please like and subscribe" thing. Why? Because you want organic data to understand when (and potentially why) your different audiences hit "like" during the video, not data that is skewed/biased by the content-creator's prompts. Keep up the good work 👏
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Because we're shit. Simple. Our history isn't soccer. Australia is the greatest team to play cricket. England and India wish they could be us. We beat India in their own stadiums.
