Spain superstar has lit up the Euros but Scottish football's record for blooding teenagers is lagging behind.
Watching a 16-year-old kid who is still doing his school work give France their jotters at Euro 2024 should be a lesson to us all.
The best bit is he doesn’t look fazed on that stage at all. I watched him in the last 16 win over Georgia and he was slaughtering one of the more established Spanish stars for not giving him the ball! In fact a stat released last month showed the Scottish Premiership lagging in 11th - even behind the English Premier League - across Europe’s top leagues for minutes played by players aged 21 or under last season.Fair play to Craig Levein for recognising the potential in a player who wasted no time in winning a move to Serie A then to the Premier League with Brentford and has become a key man for Scotland too as we unfortunately found out through his absence at the Euros.
They’re not playing at a major international tournament but they’ve gone on to have good careers. I was captain when Jordan was in his first season as a first team player. He gave away a goal in an Edinburgh derby and was absolutely distraught afterwards. Some of the boys had emptied him for his mistake which is normal in the high pressure environment of derby day.
You can’t take risks with youngsters. That’s why it’s so important managers watch the development of their best young players so closely.
Craig Levein Ryan Stevenson Scotland Football Team Euro 2024
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