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Many congratulations to Cristiano Ekene Anah, an U-15 player in Albion's academy, who has been called up to the Italy U-16 squad for the UEFA development tournament at the Pinatar Arena in Spain which commences later this week.
I don't know a whole lot about Cristiano - I first heard of him when he was a member of the Albion mainly U-16 squad that competed at the SuperCupNI in Northern Ireland for the first time in July. Not sure how long he has been in the academy, or what his football background was previously. He is also a sprinter who is a member of the Crawley Athletic Club and set an U-15 Sussex League record for the 100m (in a time of 11.3 seconds) at an U-15 Sussex League meeting at Withdean on July 14 last year.
He could come face to face with his academy colleagues on Friday as Italy take on England, who have Harry Howell and Freddie Simmonds in their squad.
Anyway, to paraphrase a chant from many years ago, we (potentially) have an Italian (U-16) inter-nat-ional!
I don't know a whole lot about Cristiano - I first heard of him when he was a member of the Albion mainly U-16 squad that competed at the SuperCupNI in Northern Ireland for the first time in July. Not sure how long he has been in the academy, or what his football background was previously. He is also a sprinter who is a member of the Crawley Athletic Club and set an U-15 Sussex League record for the 100m (in a time of 11.3 seconds) at an U-15 Sussex League meeting at Withdean on July 14 last year.
He could come face to face with his academy colleagues on Friday as Italy take on England, who have Harry Howell and Freddie Simmonds in their squad.
Anyway, to paraphrase a chant from many years ago, we (potentially) have an Italian (U-16) inter-nat-ional!
especially when is a player I've not heard about. What position does he play? (Yes I'm sure could google but others might be interested too)
