It's not strange that most European teams are composed of players in their late 20s and early 30s. That is the period when a player should be in his top form. It's rare that a player in his early 20s becomes an irreplaceable part of the team. Young players need older, more experienced players in the team to look up to.
I agree with the argument that most of the players will be in their late 20s or 30s. But in the previous editions, most of the European teams had good players in their early 20s. However this time (Qatar 2022) only a few of the European teams had such players. Some of the teams do have players who are 20 or 21 years old, but they are no match for the more experienced players. Players of the calibre of Erling Håland or Ronaldo of 2006 are extremely rare nowadays. Let's take the example of Germany. They have a few - Karim Adeyemi, Youssoufa Moukoko and Lukas Nmecha. But these players are not even regulars in the playing XI. Most of the attack is being done by Müller, Gnabry and Gündogan.
We can bet on the youth, and it's a good strategy, but let's just look at the example of Spain in Qatar, all the youngsters led, almost a Barcelona, and what did they win? nothing, go away, why? because the youngsters do not have experience, they do not know how to deal with certain eventualities that arise on the field of play, it is partly the fault of Luis Enrique who did not know how to choose a team and left the best without playing, this is because I did it due to a lack of maturity despite the fact that he is already old, so I would not bet on having a team of young people alone, that is why it is better that they focus on the championships of the sub-20 category, it is better, the professional is something else.
We need a mix of younger and more experienced players. Spain lost out, because players such as Sergio Busquets and Álvaro Morata didn't performed. To their credit, they have one of the most talented younger player in the UEFA (Ferran Torres).
Yes, in fact I am one of those who is very convinced that the teams already need their replacement generation, but for Spain it was a mistake not to take Sergio Ramos, Lucas, and in one of the games that Hakimi won, he let him know his mistake to Luis Enrique for not having taken them precisely when he did the penguin dance as a celebration when he scored the goal since he always does it at PSG with Sergio Ramos, that day was epic, just seeing Luis Enrique's face was a pleasure, without However, I am one of those who think when it comes to good players, you have to mature that rivalry for the simple fact of playing for Real Madrid.
In this sense, I believe that a technical director must mature, I prefer that Luis Enrique dedicates himself simply to being an influencer on Twitch.
this thought that some coaches have to choose young players because they think the team needs young players to be with good results for many years and a very wrong way of thinking we saw this with barcelona when they removed many players because of their advanced age, we saw the brazil that somehow didn't call up certain players because they weren't very young, what these coaches must realize is that in a team the most important thing is to have good players, it doesn't matter if they are old players, what matters is that they bring good results
while the team is bringing good results everything is fine, but unfortunately in the soccer market another big business has entered, I'm talking about the sale of players, so the teams have already seen that just by selling players it already gives them a lot of profit to the point of not having to win nothing, that's why the race started by putting very young players in the teams, when a team puts a young player with great talent, that team will sell that player for a high price, and the other team that bought the player will sell the player after a few years for a high price, but when the player gets old, even if he has great talent, nobody will want to buy him for fear of buying someone who is about to retire and they won't be able to sell him