One Two Magazine Edition 1 December 2015 One Two Magazine Edition 1 December 2015 | Page 20

Football Factory

Football Factory
– The elite player
production line
When you see an Aston Martin you see
years of careful engineering tweaked time
and time again from its initial creative
design to the finished product in the
showroom. The designers know what they
want to achieve and the teams of engineers
put it together. Eventually they have a
product that as well as looking great has
great performance and reliability. It’s fast,
strong, agile, stable and most of all
desirable. The biggest feature of all is that
the template can then be repeated using a
factory to assemble multiple versions for
sale. So what has this got to do with
football?
In many ways I think of football
development being perceived to be the
same process. Many of us in professional
football would have you believe that once
in an ‘elite’ football academy you are
automatically in that Aston Martin garage
with an inevitable end product being the
gleaming new Premier League footballe