Several of Bayern Munich's stars - including Thomas Muller and Philipp Lahm - are home grown It's a lot easier – not to mention less risky – for clubs to spend money on proven players who have been schooled elsewhere, no matter which national team they are eligible for. In this respect, German clubs are no different to teams from the Premier League. So why did they suddenly change their ways and decide to invest in youth? There are three main reasons. Why German clubs invested in youth: history, money and force The first has to do with history. These days, the German league model resembles the English one. The DFB is responsible for the national team, the domestic cup competition and the referees, while the professional clubs have their own association, the German Football League (DFL), which operates the top two divisions autonomously.

However, this setup is of fairly recent origin. Getting dumped out of Euro 2000 at the group stage was a wake-up call The second reason why the clubs eventually came around to the cause of the national team has to do with money – paradoxically, a lack of it. In late 2001, German football was plunged into a major financial crisis when the Bundesliga's major television partner ran out of money (the rough equivalent of BSkyB going bust, without BT being there to pick up the slack).

Construction boom benefits german football German academies are the best on international level. Sults in the field of youth development do not stagnate. “As ECA, we would like to strongly promote grassroots football and point out the benefits of an established youth policy for a football club and its supporters. Banks, Maya - Zoete Bezitting 5 2015 Dundy more. The Football for Development strategy in general. Football youth camps. German, Italian, Hungarian and Czech.

Suddenly all teams except Bayern were more or less forced to go with young talents, because they could no longer compete with clubs from England, Spain or Italy in the transfer market. A good example is Borussia Dortmund. For a few years, BVB have been synonymous with the German youth movement, but things used to be very different. Using Gi Bill On Active Duty more. Even though Dortmund had a successful youth setup (the club won the German U19 title for five years running between 1994 and 1998), hardly any youngsters broke into the first team. Joshua Kimmich, right, is another young beneficiary at Euro 2016 The rule even specified how many players eligible for a German national youth team had to be in the squads, how many coaches and physios the club had to employ, in which way the clubs had to interact with local schools and so on and on. Failure to do this would result in a club's licence being withdrawn.