Issue number 145 of the CIES Football Observatory Big-5 Weekly Post presents the young players active in the five major European leagues eligible for England, Spain, Germany, France and Italy who are more experienced than current full internationals of these nations at the same age. Among them notably are Nathan Redmond (Norwich), Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético Madrid), Johannes Geis (Schalke 04), Samuel Umititi (Olympique Lyonnais) and Stefano Sturaro (Juventus).
While the English national A-team is among the youngest at worldwide level, the number of eligible U23 players in the big-5 leagues with a higher experience capital than that of current Three Lions internationals at the same age is only five. This figure is much greater for the other nations hosting the five biggest European leagues: 30 for France, 22 for Spain, 18 for Italy and 17 for Germany. This finding both reflects the restricted talent pool available to England’s manager Roy Hodgson and the high experience level of current English full internationals.
The full list of the 92 most likely future English, Spanish, German, French and Italian full internationals is available here.
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