What a great debate we have happening here.
I like many are disappointed with the coaching system in Australia. I firmly believe that the FFA's new NFDP [National Football Development Plan] is a step in the right direction.
I can't speak on how it compares to any other nations developemnt plan, but history tells us that for some reason [which will become obvious] countrys with a large poor population seem to be able to produce greater skilled football players than countries with a thriving economy and a large middle class. Is it because we have become lazy and expect things to be given to us, is it because of the McDonalds syndrome, where everything is fast and on demand.
Our kids have most everything they actually need to get by on and then some, I'm sure they have a good life, yet we are unable to produce players of the ilk of Messi, Ronaldinho, C Ronaldo, why is that? It is just natural talent, to a degree, but what else is happening to them at their developmental age that makes them special. We turn out a Kewell or a Cahill once a generation and we sit back and say, aren't we good, look at Harry go, go Timmy.......in reality we should be turning out players of that skill every year, but we don't.
We of the older generation should sit back and be totally ashamed of how we have let this sport down. We have to change our ways and I mean NOW, this year, today..........We should have a Free Style Street Soccer program running, 12 months of the year, the kids don't need to go and play at club level until they are 15 or 16 until then it should all be about skill development not about how many games and training sessions they attend.
I think it is time we change the way we teach our kids to play football, why can't the next Maradonna, Messi, Ronaldinho or Pele come from Salisbury, Croydon, Reynella or Campbelltown?
We produce some of the best swimmers, cricketers, Netballers, rugby players the world has seen yet we still can't find a truely world class footballer. Shame on us oldies!
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valid points and with australia being unique int he world we share the sports with not only what is played overseas but what we have created in our own history.E. Grant & Co wrote:What a great debate we have happening here.
I like many are disappointed with the coaching system in Australia. I firmly believe that the FFA's new NFDP [National Football Development Plan] is a step in the right direction.
I can't speak on how it compares to any other nations developemnt plan, but history tells us that for some reason [which will become obvious] countrys with a large poor population seem to be able to produce greater skilled football players than countries with a thriving economy and a large middle class. Is it because we have become lazy and expect things to be given to us, is it because of the McDonalds syndrome, where everything is fast and on demand.
Our kids have most everything they actually need to get by on and then some, I'm sure they have a good life, yet we are unable to produce players of the ilk of Messi, Ronaldinho, C Ronaldo, why is that? It is just natural talent, to a degree, but what else is happening to them at their developmental age that makes them special. We turn out a Kewell or a Cahill once a generation and we sit back and say, aren't we good, look at Harry go, go Timmy.......in reality we should be turning out players of that skill every year, but we don't.
We of the older generation should sit back and be totally ashamed of how we have let this sport down. We have to change our ways and I mean NOW, this year, today..........We should have a Free Style Street Soccer program running, 12 months of the year, the kids don't need to go and play at club level until they are 15 or 16 until then it should all be about skill development not about how many games and training sessions they attend.
I think it is time we change the way we teach our kids to play football, why can't the next Maradonna, Messi, Ronaldinho or Pele come from Salisbury, Croydon, Reynella or Campbelltown?
We produce some of the best swimmers, cricketers, Netballers, rugby players the world has seen yet we still can't find a truely world class footballer. Shame on us oldies!
what used to be main stream in sports is now on the change, netball and tennis for the girls and rugby and footy for the boys and athletics and swimming for both, remeber when australia dominated in the Olympics people followed.
now peple are seeing a more professional sport coming, no longer for the minority or a specific culture who played it.
good points are raised by others about the ground hardness and this is where the all year player isn't always possible, but we can now let a junior player see the end result on the world stage from home and this without having to leave the country.
The next generation is coming and when it does it will be in droves, we may even start seeing england sides full of aussies, then the oldies will take notice.
Street Football has been introduced in the last few years in countriesd such as Scotland and Columbia (plus many more).
The Scottish play it late on Friday nights - small crimes dropped by up tp 40% in soem areas! Each week scouts watch and select several players to come and trial with professional clubs.
In Columbia one version played in Bogota I think, each team must have at least one girl playing and she must be the first to score for her team!
What this demonstrates is a willingess by the local organisers to think outside the square and use football positively.
Johan Cruyff, Franz Becekenbaur, Stanley Matthews and many more have said in interviews that they learned many important football skills playing street football when they were very young and it helped them immensely when moving to clubs.
The Scottish play it late on Friday nights - small crimes dropped by up tp 40% in soem areas! Each week scouts watch and select several players to come and trial with professional clubs.
In Columbia one version played in Bogota I think, each team must have at least one girl playing and she must be the first to score for her team!
What this demonstrates is a willingess by the local organisers to think outside the square and use football positively.
Johan Cruyff, Franz Becekenbaur, Stanley Matthews and many more have said in interviews that they learned many important football skills playing street football when they were very young and it helped them immensely when moving to clubs.
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Thanks mate, I love you too !!!!harrycripps wrote:
From what I have read over the last year or so on this forum, Megabonus, Squizzy and Zelko Jurin and others, speak intelligently and with passion, so I think that sledging is not appropriate. We have more class than the tossers who think that cricket is actually as important as football.
God bless, vote for Harrycripps
PS.....And harrycripps falls into this category too, I have seen his kids play, they are VERY talented. I assume that is from just "playing", and kicking the ball around in the backyard and in the street.....everyday
Spot Željko Jurin Jnr ......
