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#42 AUG 21 2020/21 REVIEW #42 AUG 21 A total of 33 apprentices WRITTEN BY JACK WYLIE | DESIGN BY ICG received recognition for their outstanding efforts on and off the pitch last season by being named in LFE’s ‘The 11’. Careers Warren Sung Liam Ravenhill Assessment Trials LFE learners can NOV Accrington Stanley Doncaster Rovers LFE’s Assessment Trials took take advantage 2020 of employment Matthew Cox Fraser Alexander place at the end of June, opportunities thanks to AFC Wimbledon Ipswich Town featuring players from EFL, LFE’s partnerships with Premier League and National Charlie Wood Henry Popple a variety of different Bradford City Middlesbrough League clubs who were organisations. released in 2020 and 2021. Browse the range of Charlie Barker Mason McLean Full highlights from all nine exciting pathways at Charlton Athletic Queens Park Rangers matches at three regional lfe.org.uk/careers Harrison Nee Nigel Aris venues can be viewed on Coventry City Shrewsbury Town LFE’s Trials YouTube page. Visit LFE Transition www.youtube.com/c/lfetrialstv Alex Matthews Officer Derby County Individual player highlight Academy players can packages are available to seek information, advice players free of charge via LFE’s and guidance regarding Hudl Recruitment page. More alternative options at Dylan Adjei-Hersey Ollie Bate information can be found at any time from LFE’s FEB AFC Wimbledon Millwall lfe.org.uk/careers/hudl Transition Officer, 2021 Rob Apter Bryan Ly Anthony Cato. Blackpool Morecambe Contact him at [email protected] Olivier Sukinniecki Flynn Clarke Bradford City Peterborough United Higher Education Louis Chadwick Luke Chambers All LFE apprentices Cambridge United Port Vale can pursue a route to Nohan Kenneh Jacob Holland- university in the UK or Leeds United Wilkinson LFE has introduced an Alumni Player The PFA’s Education Team provide abroad if they achieve Preston North End Voice initiative, offering a safe space guidance and funding for educational the required academic Josh Scott for past apprentices to talk about and vocational courses that support qualifications. Mansfield Town their experiences, best practice and personal development and transition Download our areas for improvement in regard to towards a second career. informative guides to transition support provided by clubs PFA members can also receive support Higher Education or USA and wider organisations. in attaining FA and UEFA qualifications, Scholarships at MAY Saleem Akanbi Antony Papadopoulos If you would like to contribute, which are often mandatory requirements lfe.org.uk/touchline- Cambridge United Leyton Orient contact Kelly Butterworth, Projects when applying for jobs in coaching and downloads 2021 James Beadle Casey Pettit [email protected] ( ) management within professional football. lfe.org.uk lfe.org.uk Charlton Athletic Luton Town American Scholarships A guide for players, parents and guardians or LFE Communications For more information, For entry in 2021 Higher Education Applications Connor O’Riordan Josh Coburn ([email protected]). A guide for players, parents and guardians visit thepfa.com/players/education For entry in 2021 Crewe Alexandra Middlesbrough Evan Khouri Andre da Silva Mendes Grimsby Town Morecambe Nicholas Bilokapic Eddie Brearey Huddersfield Town Oxford United Louis Beckett Hull City 2 Touchline AUG 21 AUG 21 Touchline 3 2020/21 REVIEW 2020/21 REVIEW Academy Leagues Winners 2020/21 2020/21 EFL Youth Alliance North West Fleetwood Town Almost 45,000 votes were cast Several current and former EFL Youth Alliance North East across nine LFE Goal of the Month LFE apprentices were recognised Notts County competitions during the 2020/21 in this year’s EFL Awards, across campaign. The winners, along with a variety of categories. EFL Youth Alliance South West a ‘best runner-up’ selected by LFE, Peterborough United qualified for Goal of the Season, with EFL Youth Alliance South East nearly 7,500 votes being recorded. LFE Championship Oxford United Apprentice of the Season EFL Youth Alliance Hassan Ayari Will Trueman | Sheffield Wednesday 1ST Sheffield United Southern Merit League One September Winner LFE League One Plymouth Argyle Apprentice of the Season EFL Youth Alliance Liam Thomas Lewis Johnson | Milton Keynes Dons 2ND Shrewsbury Town Southern Merit League Two October Winner LFE League Two Southend United Apprentice of the Season Jamal Salawu EFL Youth Alliance Felix Miles | Cheltenham Town 3RD Plymouth Argyle Southern Merit League Three May Winner Sky Bet League One AFC Bournemouth Rob Apter Player of the Season EFL Youth Alliance Cup 4TH Blackpool Jonson Clarke-Harris | Coventry City – Rochdale AFC January Winner now Peterborough United U18 Professional Development Elijah Coe PFA Player in the Community League North 5TH Oxford United Will Vaulks | Tranmere Rovers – now Cardiff City Wigan Athletic November Winner Sky Bet Championship Team of the Year U18 Professional Development Haroon Salah Max Aarons | Norwich City League South 6TH Rotherham United Charlton Athletic December Winner Sean Morrison | Swindon Town – now Cardiff City Alex Mowatt | Leeds United – now Barnsley U18 Professional Development Max McMillan Ivan Toney | Northampton Town – now Brentford League National Play-offs 7TH Leeds United Wigan Athletic March Winner Sky Bet League One Team of the Year U18 Premier League North Matt Reed Mark Beevers | Sheffield Wednesday – Manchester City 8TH Bristol Rovers now Peterborough United LFE ‘Best Runner-up’ Lee Burge | Coventry City – now Sunderland U18 Premier League South Jonson Clarke-Harris | Coventry City – Fulham Daniel Jebbison now Peterborough United Sheffield United U18 Premier League National Play-offs 9TH Luke O’Nien | Watford – now Sunderland April Winner Manchester City Charlie Wyke | Middlesbrough – now Sunderland Ollie Bate U18 Premier League Cup 10TH Millwall Sky Bet League Two Team of the Year Manchester City February Winner Will Boyle | Huddersfield Town – FA Youth Cup now Cheltenham Town Aston Villa Click here to view all of this Matt Jay | Exeter City season’s goals on LFETV David Worrall | Bury – now Port Vale 4 Touchline AUG 21 AUG 21 Touchline 5 If football has taught Bobby Copping anything, it is resilience. As a 16-year-old, he was released by his boyhood club, Norwich City, and moved over 200 miles up north to sign as an apprentice at Bury. Following a promising first season, his time at Gigg Lane was brought to an abrupt end when the club’s financial difficulties led to expulsion from the EFL. And the cruellest test of all came in February, when Copping made the heartbreaking decision to retire from playing after suffering a recurring head injury that left him with impaired vision and numbness on the left side of his body. 6 Touchline AUG 21 AUG 21 Touchline 7 “I’ve had to deal with quite a lot “I talk about the highs and lows “All I want to do is help people Sheffield United, to name just of hardship over the past few of my career and the strategies and show that it’s possible to a few. years and I could’ve gone down I used to overcome the use a negative situation to gain Defender Copping was also a really dark path,” he told LFE. obstacles. a positive outcome.” handed a lifeline at a higher “You hear stories of people that “I received one message from a Copping had spent nine years level, bouncing back from his drift towards drugs, alcohol, kid who said that he had been in Norwich’s academy before second significant setback in crime and that could’ve suicidal, but after listening being released, but brushed off 18 months. been me. to how I’d dealt with my the rejection quickly, turning He said: “I had offers from “Having to retire from situation, it gave him a different down interest from Luton Town Sunderland and Peterborough something I love and something perspective and basically saved in favour of a move to Bury. United, and then I’d also been I’ve worked for my whole life his life. “It was a great club; Bury was like on trial for a week at Brighton, has been incredibly tough. After “To read that and know I’ve a family,” he said. “The Under- although unfortunately I didn’t I’d made the decision, I sat already been able to make 18s were doing so well, reaching get offered anything from them. in my room with the curtains an impact on someone is the quarter finals of the Youth “I did consider Sunderland as a closed, I turned my phone off absolutely brilliant. Cup and only losing to Liverpool. good option, but Peterborough and didn’t message anyone for just made me feel wanted. The about two weeks. gaffer, Darren Ferguson, pulled “I was ordering takeaway me in for a chat and went after takeaway. Anyone that “All I want to do is help people and show through clips of me, saying knows me is aware that I love what I do well and what he going to the gym, but I lost all wanted me to improve on. As motivation, even though I had that it’s possible to use a negative a 17-year-old kid at the time, equipment in my living room. I for the first-team manager to look back now and feel grateful be explaining exactly why he that I had a lot of support and situation to gain a positive outcome.” wanted to sign me, I couldn’t was able to find a way out of go anywhere else.” the darkness.” “To go from that to not getting The young centre-back Six months on from his paid and not knowing if we’d wasted no time in making an premature retirement, the still have a job was extremely impression at his new club, 19-year-old is using his tough. earning a senior debut in experience to help others “I remember on the last the EFL Trophy just a month via the Bobby Copping day, we were sitting in the after penning his professional Foundation, which aims to canteen waiting for news of contract, while he was an provide emotional support a new chairman.