He established the Dutch FA’s world renowned youth development programmes and he will bring this
expertise to bear as we build on Liam’s outstanding
legacy of the past 17 years.
We are also putting significant financial
investment into our youth development activities.
The first phase of extensive refurbishment work
has been completed to our facilities at Hale End
and work on a second phase is well underway.
We are investing in new staff and looking at the very
latest techniques in sports science and physical
development. We are also looking to strengthen our
global scouting networks to ensure we find the very
best young talent in the game. This is important
to our long-term success and it is a policy we will
continue to pursue vigorously.
Investments are also being made in people and
infrastructure at our London Colney training centre.
We are putting forward plans for improvements
which will take us to the next level in terms of fitness
and preparation facilities and I look forward to work
getting underway in 2015.