As manager Craig Bellamy so far, boasts a flawless record in charge of the national team, will he be able to fully utilise the young talent coming through for the international setup? We look at some of the best young players throughout the Welsh national team.
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00:00The Welsh football set-up at the moment is quite an interesting one, because of course
00:08we're coming through the era now, or we've gone past the era now, the likes of the Gareth
00:11Bales, the Aaron Ramses for example, all these players who delivered so much success and
00:15great memories for Wales. Their time is coming to an end, of course Gareth Bales has retired
00:20from international football, football in general. Aaron Ramses is at Cardiff but isn't really
00:26going to be the player he once was, so it is time for a new era at Wales, I think that's
00:32the most important thing to say, under Craig Bellamy, and so there's lots of new players
00:36who are starting to burst through, and so the time is now to start looking at who are
00:40the future stars of this Welsh team, without the big names that I've just mentioned before.
00:45I think you'll get into it in further depth, but you've got the likes of Brendan Johnson
00:48at Tottenham for example, Nico Williams, Reuben Cowell, Charlie Crewe at Leeds United as well,
00:54these are all some good young talent that Wales do possess.
00:57Yeah, obviously, as you say, it's a massive transition period, you see the likes of Bale,
01:03Ramsey, Wayne Hennessy even as well, one of the top appearance makers, coming in and out
01:09the side, and I think Bellamy is working towards a new transition, a new look for Welsh football
01:16and to give these young players a chance. Starting at the very, very top, we do have
01:22obviously, some great representatives for Wales in the Premier League, Brendan Johnson
01:26is, when he's fit, he's quite remarkable really, coming to his own was fantastic at
01:32Nottingham Forest in the Championship, then came up, was brilliant for them in the Premier
01:36League, but then Tottenham Hotspur snatched them, and in years to come, I'm certain that
01:41so many of these young Welsh players will be playing at the very, very top. Brendan
01:46Johnson, he's got all the scope to be the next standout figure, you have Harry Wilson
01:51obviously there, but he's 27, so a bit older, a bit more in his prime, he's been fantastic
01:55in terms of trying to replace Gareth Bale, which is obviously a bit of a monster task.
02:00But yeah, you named a few there, Nico Williams has been fantastic, only 23, plenty more to
02:07come from him, been brilliant under Nuno Espirito Santo at Nottingham Forest this season so
02:11far. Reuben Colwell in the Championship, there's still a number of top talents in the Championship,
02:17only 22 years of age, at Cardiff as well, so you struggle to think how he wouldn't have
02:23the sort of understanding of how important Welsh football is, Cardiff City obviously
02:28being their home ground as well. Jordan James, you look at him from Birmingham City, playing
02:35in the French League now, he's only 20. Louis Koumas of Stoke City, only 19, and Charlie
02:40Crewe as you mentioned for Leeds United, a fantastic young talent, and yeah, the future's
02:46bright and Ben Amey's set up a plan where these players will be integrated into the
02:51national side, so it will be an interesting next couple of years maybe to see these players
02:56really progress.