West Ham United Football Club News

• Nickname:Hammers
• Founded:1895
• Manager:Sam Allardyce

• Ground:Upton Park
• Capacity:35,595

Zola praises Irons youngsters

06 Apr 2009 - 09:29:26

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West Ham United boss Gianfranco Zola is delighted with the way several homegrown players are progressing at Upton Park under his leadership.

The Hammers won 2-0 at home to Sunderland at the weekend, with full debutant Junior Stanislas and James Tomkins the goalscorers.

Zola told the club's official website: "I like to look for young players. We can bring some good ones from abroad, but the idea was also to develop the players we have here.

"It is fantastic when you see young players coming from the youth team into the first team and they do well, do their jobs and score also.

"It's great, not just for me and the club, but for the atmosphere, for the supporters and that's what we want to do. We need to feed it and that's the job we need to do for the next few years.

"The tradition at this club is to produce very good players and that's the reason why I believe the club appointed me.

"They know I like working this way and so they want to carry on doing this."