Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Kottan appreciates three youngsters during talent-hunt Euro Tour

Lahore, 9 September : ‘I have checked three U20 players Harun Bhatti, Yousuf Butt and Bilal Butt keenly and am confident that these youngsters would implant a new life into the Pakistan team in forthcoming days. My European trip was successful as myself hunted out some new, young faces who are ready to offer services to Pakistan in the near future,” this is stated by Vienna-born Pakistan football team coach George Kottan.

Pakistan Football Federation (PFF)’s President Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat had asked Kottan to nurture new talent from Euro Leagues during August in order to provide muscles to the National and National U23 team for coming assignments in international arena. “there may be some good players of Pakistani origin in Europe and they could eventually prove to be very helpful for the team," he said.

Former Bolton Wanderers FC Academy, Harun Bhatti, is now right full back of Accrington Stanley FC, club from Accrington in Lancashire, in the north-west of England. Harun, who will celebrate his 18th birth day on 31 December 2009, is a first year apprentice professional and was successful in the Clubs pre-season trials. The club’s boss John Coleman says about Harun,’A tall athletic player who plays at fullback but made his debut in the midfield which immediately demonstrated his versatility. He has a good first touch and eye for the telling pass either to feet or space and will prove to be a good acquisition to the squad.’

He used to appear in The Football League Youth Alliance , a second tier of youth football competition in England, beneath the FA Premier Academy League. The competition is currently contested by 58 clubs, split into four regional conferences, with Accrington in 18-team North-West.

Bilal Butt, also born in 1991 like Harun, is centre-back of Brentford FC, a professional English football club based in Brentford in the London Borough of Hounslow. They are currently playing in Football League One.

With the excellent training he will be given at Brentford, he will have the opportunity to maximize his potential and become one of the strong footballers, said Youth Team Manager Darren Sarll about Bilal.

Yousuf Butt used to play as goal keeper in Danish 1st Division for Hellerup Idræts Klub (HIK), a Danish sport club from Hellerup, Copenhagen. Having born on 18 October 1989.Yousuf is still under 20 and impressed Manager Hasse Kuhn who called him “future star’.

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