SM Recommended Site: UEFA.com & FIFA.com

March 14th, 2007 by SM Dev (ste)

As you are all aware, the player ratings on SM are based on a players real life performance/ability.

Splashing out a few million on the next up-and-coming teenager, does not always mean you have captured the next Wayne Rooney. To ensure your club does not purchase the next Jon Stead, who aged 19, signed for Blackburn Rovers in 2004, for over £1 million, and went on to play 42 times (scoring only 8 goals) for Rovers, before being sold on to Sunderland. Instead, using the website we recommend, you could find the next Samuel Eto’o, whom Real Madrid signed as a teenager from the Kadji Sports Academy, for a fraction of Stead’s transfer fee. Despite their only being a year or two difference in age, Stead’s career has stagnated, as he has struggled at Sunderland, and Derby, Eto’o has gone from strength to strength, culminating in last seasons double with Barcelona, as they were crowned La Liga and European Champions.

UEFA.com and FIFA.com - The two sites belong to two of the games most recognised governing bodies, and at first do not jump out as sites to use to scout potential gems. If this is your initial thought, then think again.

Both sites are excellent in brining news regarding the various youth tournaments to a readers attention. Sometimes people are oblivious to the various U17, U20 etc youth tournaments, and miss out on news in relation to recent events, like the South American U20 Championship, which was held in Paraguay, at the start of the year.

FIFA.com provided excellent coverage of the U17 World Championship Peru, back in 2005 (FIFA.com: U17 World Championship Peru, back in 2005). If people visited the site regularly to keep up-to-date on the competition, then they would have discovered players like Anderson, Carlo Vela, Giovanni Dos Santos etc.

Mexico won their first ever major honour (at all levels) back in 2005, and the team was hailed as the new ‘Golden Generation’. Mexico’s golden generation of talented youngsters have now set their sites on the up-and-coming U20 World Cup, which is to be held in Canada, later this year (FIFA.com: U20 World Cup Canada).

Another tournament to keep track on this year, is the European U17 Championship, and qualification for the eight-team final, starts later this month (UEFA.com: European U17 Championship).

If your aim in SM is to build a team for the future, then both sites are worth visiting regularly to keep track of the various youth competitions, and the next big star they might throw up.

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