{"id":184079,"date":"2025-06-14T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/184079\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T15:28:12","slug":"englands-latest-generation-of-stars-are-hungrier-than-ever-to-dominate-feels-lee-carsley-as-u21s-boss-outlines-germany-and-spain-similarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/184079\/","title":{"rendered":"England’s latest generation of stars are hungrier than ever to dominate, feels Lee Carsley… as U21s boss outlines Germany and Spain similarity"},"content":{"rendered":"

By NATHAN SALT<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 10:09 EDT, 14 June 2025 | Updated: 10:13 EDT, 14 June 2025 <\/p>\n

Lee Carsley<\/a> believes England’s conveyor belt of young players is now producing groups of winners who are determined to dominate at every single age group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former England winger Theo Walcott<\/a> questioned how seriously England took international football compared to other nations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Carsley, who was speaking prior to the Under-21’s second Euros group game against Slovenia on Sunday, believes this current generation are cut from a different cloth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I think that’s definitely a generational thing,’ he said when referencing the German Under-21 team that won the Euros in 2009 before winning the World Cup five years later.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Years ago that German team, they went through to the senior team and then done so well and it was the same with Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Hopefully the 21s from the last campaign can be that kind of team.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Lee <\/p>\n

Lee Carsley feels England’s latest generation of young stars are hungrier than ever to dominate<\/p>\n

\"England's <\/p>\n

England’s Under-21s are looking to win back-to-back European Championships this summer<\/p>\n

He continued: ‘Winning one tournament is great but it’s the dominating bit that we want to get better at.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘There is a big difference between hope and belief. I feel that we are producing a generation of English players that believe that they can win and they can do really well in these tournaments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘But it starts from those building blocks with making sure first and foremost we qualify from the group and then trying to build on that.’<\/p>\n

On the men’s side, England are involved in major competitions at Under-17, Under-19 and Under-21 level this summer and they all boast strong prospects across all three.<\/p>\n

Having won the Euros two years ago for the first time in 39 years, a lot of the focus is on going back-to-back with a squad that has only two faces in it from the 2023 group.<\/p>\n

But for Carsley there is no divine right that England should win because they are England.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I think from an Under-21 point of view, we won it in 1982, won it in 1984, hadn’t won it before then.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Won it again in 2023 and so I don’t think we should ever have an expectation of, “Oh,\u00a0England<\/a>\u00a0should win that” because our past would prove that we haven’t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Charlie <\/p>\n

Charlie Cresswell, who scored against the Czech Republic, was in the victorious 2023 group<\/p>\n

‘I definitely feel that this generation of players, and not only this group but in terms of the 17s and 19s who are all involved in major competitions this summer, I spoke about it before, the level of player coming through there is definitely a conveyor belt of players that aren’t happy just to be here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I definitely feel in their minds they have come here to win.’<\/p>\n

England Under-21’s face Slovenia in their second group game on Sunday afternoon knowing victory would book their place in the quarter-finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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