Uefa promoting home-grown talent
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Uefa promoting home-grown talent
Times Online – Dec 16, 2004
The proposals are not based on nationality — clubs can sign foreign players to their academy — because Uefa has to comply with European Union legislation on the freedom of movement of labour across borders. If accepted, Uefa is thought to want the changes in place for the 2006-07 season. Should 18-strong squads need to include seven home-grown players a team could still select an entire starting XI of acquired talent, so the planned changes are hardly revolutionary, but they would nevertheless require at least a slight change of approach among Premiership clubs. Only Aston Villa, Manchester City and Manchester United selected squads of 16 that included at least five former trainees last weekend. Arsenal named three former trainees in their 16 — Ashley Cole, Francesc Fàbregas and Justin Hoyte — and Chelsea had just John Terry.
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Free with registration – News & Record – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 16, 2004
(EDITORIAL) –> COPYRIGHT 2004 News & Record Since RF Micro Devices was born in Greensboro, it seems only fitting that it should grow up here. The maker of chips for cell phones, which was founded locally in 1991, announced plans Tuesday for a $75 million expansion that will bring with it 75 new jobs. Those new jobs will be the kind that.
The $65m question
Guardian – Dec 16, 2004
Comparative data suggests that people in Arab countries are more enthusiastic about democracy than we are. But it’s obvious that pumping in large sums where there are few local initiatives can be distorting. Solidarity in Poland was a wholly authentic, home-grown movement that then got western support. Some subsequent east European initiatives seemed to start at the other end. One east European friend commented wryly: “We dreamed of civil society and got NGOs. ” In Arab countries, it will be even more vital, and difficult, to identify initiatives that are authentic and home-grown. This is, I repeat, just a first attempt to rough out a few first principles.
Montana keeps tradition going despite youth
USA Today – Dec 16, 2004
Games in Missoula turn into daylong festivals that fill Washington Grizzly Stadium to overflowing. “Our game day is one of the really good ones in all of college football,” says Hauck, who beat Sam Houston State last week in the semifinals in front of a record crowd of 23,607. “Football is really intertwined with this state. No one has deeper roots to the program than Hauck, who was born in Missoula and is the third generation of his family to attend the school.