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Celtic invited back to NextGen Series

Jan 11 2012 05:10 PM | Gaffney in Articles

After coming third in the toughest NextGen Series group Celtic have been invited back for Next season's tournament.

It was confirmed today through the official Celtic website and Chris McCart (head of youth) said:
“We are very excited about it,” he told the official Celtic website. “I think it’s been a great experience for us, playing against Barcelona Marseille and Manchester City."

“We had a taste of it last year and we all really enjoyed it. It was great for the players, and what was fantastic was the first-team management could come and watch the players in action, and we´ve seen more young players made their debut this year for the first-team."

It was a very tough group to go through, Barcelona and Marseille have fantastic youth setups and Manchester City have recently invested millions into their youth. Celtic were beaten 1-0 away by Marseille on the opening night, Barcelona beat Celtic 3-1 and 5-1 but Celtic managed to beat Man City twice and Marseille 3-0 at home.

It should be a fantastic new competition for football which will allow us to compare our youth to some of the best youngsters in the world and not just the ones from Scotland.

I enjoyed our run in the NextGen Series, lets hope next season we make it out of the group stages.

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7 Comments

CELTICREBEL88
Jan 11 2012 06:40 PM

hopefully the players who played in this Series off games can get in the first team now

awolz1
Jan 11 2012 08:56 PM

that for me screams of how well our youth set up is I am for one am made up by this news, I was hopin not expecting, and who knows a better draw net time...

marmarisbhoy
Jan 12 2012 12:42 PM

I followed the Nextgen with great enthusium, fantastic to be involved in this set-up, and i believe it has 5 more yrs to run.

Having no reserve league in the backwaters of scottish football really says it all dont you think?

Even if it was introduced again it would be the same as before, hammer throwers targetting a footballer, as i remember the old reserve leagues, and all that was missing from most was a miners helmet.

I would like to see Celtic entering a 2nd string team into the 3rd division, obviously we could'nt get promotion into the top division, but we could win the 2nd and 3rd division of the prospective league's, and a good turn-out to watch the 2nd team is a way of helping our expenditure.

The future seems bright ..........................thanks Fergus and God bless you.

carpe diem
Jan 21 2012 01:12 PM

went to every match this season, decent wee atmosphere for the young-ins look forward to next season :scarf_eire:

Gazzola
Jan 24 2012 02:43 PM

Its no more than the players deserved they performed brilliantly, i think they initially lacked confidence but asfter their performances and results they will be looking at going a step further next year. I followed this tourney with mcuh interest and was massively impressed with the caliber of young palyers we have. Half of them could walk into our first team we have already seen what dylan mcgeouch can do and he is in no way alone in the talent stakes.

Everyone at the club and all the fans should be really proud of what our youngsters have achieved.

HH YNWA WAANL