Academies: problems to be solved
I do think that we've got to try and get a different attitude right through the game to bringing England players through.
Lord Triesman
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Two English teams will go head to head in the Champions League final as Manchester United and Chelsea clash in Moscow.
But some people would argue the first all-English Champions League final in history cannot be described as a triumph for English football, given that the success of both teams has been built by using a number of foreign imports.
With that in mind, our State of the Game series took a look at whether the country's top clubs are doing enough to nurture domestic talent as part of our investigation into youth development.
The Chelsea side that started this season's FA Youth Cup final contained just three English players and some are concerned by the level of foreign imports.
FA Chairman Lord Triesman said: "The decline in the number of players eligible to play for England starting each week in the Premier League is about three per cent per year.
"We're at about 37 or 38 per cent now and it's going down. So I do think that we've got to try and get a different attitude right through the game to bringing England players through."
Achievements
But Huw Jennings, the Premier League's youth development manager disagreed, saying: "If you look at some of the achievements of the domestic home-grown players I think they're better than people might imagine.
"I'm struck by clubs like Everton, Aston Villa and Manchester City who've all demonstrated their beliefs in home-grown products to try and challenge for honours for the future."
We also took a look at how academies are run and the methods that academy coaches use to train young talent.
It is argued that not enough time is spent training and that too much emphasis is put on pressure and competition instead of skills and enjoyment.
We also cast the spotlight on funding and looked at the case of Wrexham's centre of excellence which is set to lose 50 per cent of its funding - around £100,000 - because of the club's relegation from the Football League.
Children of primary school age can only sign up to clubs within an hour's drive away so if the centre does fold then it could have drastic consequences because there would not be an academy available to large numbers of children in Wales.
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