England presented with Maurice Burlaz Trophy

England has won a 2017 Maurice Burlaz Trophy, a esteem awarded to a inhabitant organisation that has achieved a best formula in UEFA’s men’s girl competitions over a prior dual seasons and that is named after a Frenchman and former vice-chairman of a UEFA Youth Committee.

The esteem was presented to England’s FIFA U-20 World Cup-winning manager Paul Simpson, representing a Football Association (FA), by UEFA Youth and Amateur Football Committee authority John Delaney during a UEFA girl competitions pull rite during a House of European Football in Nyon on Wednesday.

The Maurice Burlaz Trophy, named after a former vice-chairman of a UEFA Youth Committee, has been awarded to European inhabitant associations given 1990, on a basement of formula performed in a UEFA European Under-17 Championship and a UEFA European U19 Championship over a prior dual seasons.

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Paul Simpson (left) receives a Maurice Burlaz Trophy

UEFA President Aleksander ÄŒeferin said: “I would like to honour everybody during a English Football Association who has been concerned in England’s successes in a competitions over a final dual seasons.

“This esteem is a covenant to a illusory work we have all been doing during girl level, and it is a earnest pointer for what could be achieved by your comparison inhabitant teams in a future.”

This is a initial time England has claimed a Maurice Burlaz Trophy, that they clinched by winning a 2017 U19 EURO, and reaching a 2016 semi-finals, and finishing runners-up during a 2017 U17 EURO and creation a 2016 final eight.

That left them dual points forward of a republic they kick in a 2017 U19 final, 2016 U17 champions Portugal. England’s strength in girl foe was reliable when they won a 2017 U-17 and U-20 World Cups, a initial European organisation to explain both trophies in a same year. England horde next May’s U17 finals.

Highlights: England win U19 trophy

2017 Maurice Burlaz Trophy heading positions
1 England 23 points
2 Portugal 21
3= Germany, Netherlands 16
5 Spain 15
6 France 10
7 Italy 9
8= Czech Republic, Turkey 6
10= Austria, Sweden 3
(tournament win=8 points, runners-up=7, beaten semi-finalists=6, U17 beaten quarter-finalists=2, U19 organisation third place=2, U17 organisation third place=1, U19 organisation fourth place=1)

Watch England strech a 2017 U17 final

Roll of honour
2017: England
2015: Germany
2013: France
2011: Spain
2009: Germany
2007: Spain
2006: Spain
2004: Spain
2002: Spain
2000: Portugal
1998: Spain
1996: Spain
1994: Portugal, Spain, Turkey
1992: Germany
1990: Portugal

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