But Redknapp argued that an influx of foreign players at youth level was damaging the progress of homegrown talent.
And Wassall was also delighted that Hughes was by no means the only homegrown Derby player to progress into the first team in the past couple of seasons.
The best sides in the Champions League have tended to contain a core group of academy or homegrown players who have progressed together.
Southgate believes the FA and Premier League clubs are in fact in agreement on the importance of progressing young homegrown talent from academy sides to the first team, but that the pressure placed on managers and coaches means they are unwilling to take a risk on inexperienced players.
Indonesia has made relatively good progress in stamping out homegrown Islamic extremism after attacks in Bali and Jakarta.
His progress tracked the rise of a new homegrown sound: grime.
On Saturday afternoon, a giant screen in the middle of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) displayed four livestreams of attacks in progress, including an assault by "a violent homegrown extremist group" in the theater of a local community college.
Even more progress will come from training and nurturing homegrown talent, creating a career pathway for motivated students to eventually run their own basic research labs and lead the fight against global diseases.
The former BBC director general, who has set a target of England winning the 2022 World Cup but struggled to make progress on the issue of increasing the proportion of homegrown players in the top flight, announced his decision to the FA board on Thursday.
The international community, especially the United States, should realize that progress in Afghanistan should be measured in the number of successful homegrown projects that assistance makes possible, not in the mileage of roads built or the amount of aid dollars spent.
A critical first step along that path, the Kickboard founder says, is giving teachers a better way to capture, analyze and share evidence of student progress so it isn't tucked away in a filing cabinet or trapped in a homegrown maze of Google Docs, Excel spreadsheets, and email.
