Melbourne
Victory Youth will come to Hobart on Sunday to face Tasmania on the heels of
two wins against FC Bulleen Lions during the past week.
Melbourne
Victory won both those games, so look out Tasmania!
Winning
is not the purpose of the visit to Hobart, however, and player development is
the first priority.
The
squad has only been together for a week, but Davies liked what he saw in the
two games against Bulleen.
"It's a particularly young
group, however, our philosophy as a club is to get the youngsters in and to
hopefully become the next batch who progress from this youth team into the
seniors,” said Melbourne Victory Youth coach, Darren Davies. “That’s always our goal.
"Every single player we have at
Melbourne Victory we have because we believe they can be a first-team player.
“We are really committed to working
with those boys.
"When we train, we all train
together. We are looking to implement
the same structures as the first team. This
is done ultimately because our job is to get our next batch into the first
team.
"Anybody who knows me and knows
this football club knows our goal is purely to get players into the first team.
That is what we are about and is our
ultimate goal, and our only goal.
“Winning games is part of their
learning, but it is not at the expense of their development.
"Our goal is to get boys into
the first team. Over the course of the
last three years we are up to nine boys now who have been involved in the first
team.
“Our goal is to better that and if we
can get more boys into the first team then it’s been a successful season.
"It [the games against Bulleen]
was a really great exercise and I want to put on record our thanks to Bulleen
as well.
“We came out here, it’s a nice
surface to play on, and they have supported us very well."
Sunday’s game against Tasmania
represents their next phase in preparing for the Hyundai Youth League.
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