10-07-2015, 03:07 PM
Central coordination for the NTs - player development for national level - certainly doesn't exist. As far as individual teams one probably has to balance 'Italy as a whole is poor' with individual circumstances. Milan is not well suited to developing but that is not necessarily true of others teams. Even if other teams are just as bad at it as Milan they might be able to change 'culture' faster than Milan can. Like a new coaching teams can influence the team faster at another team. Probably it is not correct to automatically assume Italy lacks talent at teenage level just because the 20+ year olds don't perform better. If that makes sense.