Phil Foden, Kobbie Mainoo and Cole Palmer all hail from the Greater Manchester district where you can't move for football
Phil Foden, Kobbie Mainoo and Cole Palmer all hail from the Greater Manchester district where you can't move for footballresidents hear their beloved home dubbed the “new Berlin” one more time there’ll be rioting outside the Peel Centre before the day is out.
The tantalising trio grew up so close together that, had they been the same age, Palmer could have hopped on his bike from his Wythenshawe home, picked up Mainoo in Cheadle enroute and given him a backie to Foden’s house on Grenville Street in central Stockport in under 25 minutes.continued his rebirth last season, we could have been talking about ripping up the English footballing blueprint and heading down to Robinsons’ Brewery to devise a new one.
“This is where it all starts,” he continues. “You start developing a love from an early age. When kids play in big groups on parks like they do here, they are often playing with older kids, which all contributes to their development. They can then join two of the biggest clubs in the world, down the road, and keep playing all the time.
“We have got 56 teams and over 700 players now and have been going since 1977,” Steve Vare, Mainoo’s first coach at Cheadle and Gatley, tells. “We don’t like to say no to kids. If we have to, we just start another team, multiple teams at the same age group.Stockport County, on the back of two promotions in three seasons, now has a thriving academy for these eager kids to hone their crafts.
“Even though he was head and shoulders above everyone else, he didn’t act like it. He was very receptive to instructions. He wouldn’t complain about the rules we put on him, he would just get on with it. He didn’t mess about, he was always listening and taking things in – and that is down to his upbringing.”
“Cole came through from a great group with James McAtee and Tommy Doyle, too. Phil was like something else. Then to have this talent, at these facilities, with the level of coaching we could offer, everything could fall into place for the boys, if they wanted it.
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