I'm sorry but if thats the best excuse he's got for the embarrasment of the last 6 matches he's got no clue what he's doing. Goodbye Han don't let the door hit you on the way out.THE Olyroos are Australian soccer's lost generation, says FFA technical director Han Berger.
Berger was critical of the under-23 internationals born in 1989 and 1990 - the current Olyroos age class - saying they were never up to scratch.
With no goals in six Olympic Games qualifiers, Australia's under-23s ended their dismal London Games campaign at the bottom after their fourth dour scoreless draw - this time against Iraq - in Gosford on Wednesday.
"To be honest I've said that after we were eliminated from the Olympics we knew beforehand that this was the '89-'90 generation and unfortunately that was not the really the strongest generation," Berger said.
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Excuses. He took the job, with all the info in front of him.Stuckey wrote:I'm sorry but if thats the best excuse he's got for the embarrasment of the last 6 matches he's got no clue what he's doing. Goodbye Han don't let the door hit you on the way out.THE Olyroos are Australian soccer's lost generation, says FFA technical director Han Berger.
Berger was critical of the under-23 internationals born in 1989 and 1990 - the current Olyroos age class - saying they were never up to scratch.
With no goals in six Olympic Games qualifiers, Australia's under-23s ended their dismal London Games campaign at the bottom after their fourth dour scoreless draw - this time against Iraq - in Gosford on Wednesday.
"To be honest I've said that after we were eliminated from the Olympics we knew beforehand that this was the '89-'90 generation and unfortunately that was not the really the strongest generation," Berger said.
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We were obviously doing something right with player development in the late 80's early 90's to produce the quality of players in the "golden generation"...it seems all the great pathways and programs we have introduced afterwards have failed to deliver...'m an A League supporter but I feel the player development was better in the NSL days....either that or we have failed to keep up with the rest of the world and kids just aren't spending enough time with a ball at their feet....Back in my youth a promising player could play for a NSL club from juniors at local level all the way through to seniors at national level but you can't now.....So maybe the old NSL clubs aren't developing players as well as they used to??? A League sides should be able to field teams right through juniors up to U/19 level at state level.......I know some of you will say it will weaken the local clubs but as a youngster I remember Adelaide City and West Adelaide having massively stronger sides than the rest so if the same thing happened to Adelaide United juniors it would be no different.
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I agree I think this is the way forward.Porky wrote:We were obviously doing something right with player development in the late 80's early 90's to produce the quality of players in the "golden generation"...it seems all the great pathways and programs we have introduced afterwards have failed to deliver...'m an A League supporter but I feel the player development was better in the NSL days....either that or we have failed to keep up with the rest of the world and kids just aren't spending enough time with a ball at their feet....Back in my youth a promising player could play for a NSL club from juniors at local level all the way through to seniors at national level but you can't now.....So maybe the old NSL clubs aren't developing players as well as they used to??? A League sides should be able to field teams right through juniors up to U/19 level at state level.......I know some of you will say it will weaken the local clubs but as a youngster I remember Adelaide City and West Adelaide having massively stronger sides than the rest so if the same thing happened to Adelaide United juniors it would be no different.
I think having federal based funding isn't a good idea. We should just have state based funding where each HAL club can work on there youth development and receive that funding for it. But still the process on not selecting the players that aren't involved in that process is beyond a joke and shows how wrong things are at the FFA.
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agreed....they favour players coming through the AIS to justify the fundingStuckey wrote:I agree I think this is the way forward.Porky wrote:We were obviously doing something right with player development in the late 80's early 90's to produce the quality of players in the "golden generation"...it seems all the great pathways and programs we have introduced afterwards have failed to deliver...'m an A League supporter but I feel the player development was better in the NSL days....either that or we have failed to keep up with the rest of the world and kids just aren't spending enough time with a ball at their feet....Back in my youth a promising player could play for a NSL club from juniors at local level all the way through to seniors at national level but you can't now.....So maybe the old NSL clubs aren't developing players as well as they used to??? A League sides should be able to field teams right through juniors up to U/19 level at state level.......I know some of you will say it will weaken the local clubs but as a youngster I remember Adelaide City and West Adelaide having massively stronger sides than the rest so if the same thing happened to Adelaide United juniors it would be no different.
I think having federal based funding isn't a good idea. We should just have state based funding where each HAL club can work on there youth development and receive that funding for it. But still the process on not selecting the players that aren't involved in that process is beyond a joke and shows how wrong things are at the FFA.
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What has berger done? What has vidmar done? Underage squads and development need a serious looking into and these two have to go
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there is talent in this age group and younger, refusal to play amini et al was his downfallZurawski wrote:you can only do so much with an average squad...
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Especially when he (Amini) scores goals like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDLuQnvLfioReds11 wrote:Why did amini not play? Vidmar is a very average coach to me
I remember thinking when I saw first saw this months ago how good this side would be with Leckie, Oar etc....not to be.
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amini rarely played, no idea why, he and ibini would be in every olyroos 11 for me, especially with not many overseas players coming backReds11 wrote:Why did amini not play? Vidmar is a very average coach to me
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http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/237479,b ... eroos.aspxFOOTBALL Federation Australia Technical Director Han Berger is concerned about the Socceroos' chances of qualifying for future World Cups due to problems with junior development.
Speaking at the announcement of the appointment of Aurelio Vidmar (Under-22s) and Paul Okon (Young Socceroos) as coaches of Australia's youth sides on Thursday, Berger said the nation's youth set-up had reached a critical stage and he was growing impatient at the lack of progress
So now its the coaches fault if we don't make the WC. Who teaches the coaches Han?!