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John Guidetti is on the path of success - He now gets to train with the senior team: No small blokes.
John Guidetti have been moved up to the Manchester City reserve team. This means that he will regulary get to train with Roberto Mancini and the senior football team.
- Everything goes like a dream, he says to fotbollskanalen.se
The talented 17 year old Swedish Manchestery City academy player have just come home from a youth tournament. He will now be moved up from the City's U18 team to the reserves.
- Everything goes like a dream. I just came home from a tournament in Abu Dhabi. Inter, Valencia and the UAE national football team where there. We played two group stage matches and a final. I was selected as the best player in the first two matches and later on awarded the best player of the tournament.
Johns strong performances have made an impression with city's leaders. He will now be moved up from the U18 team to the reserves.
- Im coming closer and closer [to playing football at senior level]. I will now train full time with the reserves, where there are alot of U21 national players. Many of these get to go on loan, but only to teams at the highest level. Hopefully things will move quickly. If I play great in a game, that just might be enough, if Mancini is looking.
Do you get to play alot with the senior team?
- Yes, every time the senior team wants to test a new setup or play games in traning.
You will go head to head with Micah Richards then?
- Exactly, no small blokes.
How did you perform with the U18 team?
I made 13 goals in 13 matches in the U18-series and thats a damn good serie. Federico Machedo came directly from that series last season when he went straight into a Manchester United side. He never scored versus us. We beat them with 5-0 and 2-0.
Whats your next step, to go on loan, or perhaps change club for a chance to play with the senior team, or are you staying with City jumping at every opportunity that comes your way?
- I dont know. I just have to perform. But sure, if Barcelona calls tommorow and tells me they want me, then I would lie if I wouldn't consider to say yes. At the same time, if City would offer me playing with the first 11, then I would go for that instead.
It has been rumored with a move to Sweden, is there anything in it?
- I dont know. I love football as much as the next football fan and I know that every little thing gets blow out of proportion in the media. There is always alot of rumours. But I have my agent and my parents helping me with all of that. I just play [football]. I dont even know how my contract looks like.
Have you noticed any difference with Mancini in place of Mark Hughes, who was fired?
- He tends to give the youth players more chances. Many of my friends who are two years older has made a debut now. Guys that I played with last year, Dedryck Boyata, has played 4-5 games. I feel that I am at their level. Same story with Abdi (Abdisalam Ibrahim), he have also gotten the chance to play. That would never had happened with Mark Hughes.
- It is a lot more relaxed at the tranining facilities. Hughes where very strict. You now have the feeling that you can participate in some lighthearted fun, as long as you keep focused with the training etc.
Guidetti was recruited by Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2008 and has in addition to playing with City's U18 team also made a breakthrough with the swedish P92-squad, where he scored four goals last fall against Holland.
