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Karl
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USA
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 Posted - Mar 21 2003 : 8:58:12 PM
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Poverty Anywhere is Poverty everywhere
27-Feb-2003
H Najjar
Poverty Anywhere is Poverty Everywhere
It is often said that a chain is as strong as its weakest link. What that subtly tells us is that a good chain does not have a weak link.
Other thoughts that come to mind when considering the chain, and given the weak link concept, are the uncertain feeling of not knowing which link, if any, might be the weak one. The uncertainty in and onto itself quivers us to the bone, especially if our lives depended on the uniform and consistent strength of the chain. Does it have a manufacturers defect? Is it an alloy inconsistency, or is it a case of wear and tear? Whichever, the fear of the link being weak wears heavy on us if our lives are hanging from the chain.
What also comes to mind, is the examples of our everyday living, and it begs the question, why are some people so economically strong in our society and others are not and/or the opposite?
Well, it is my sincere feeling, and I apply the hot knife theory that, poverty anywhere is poverty everywhere, regardless of the topic. Once there is a weak link, there is weakness in the chain, and therefore the chain is no good. This concept leaves one with many questions just as they help provide answers, as it provokes in us an arousing of failings and repair.
It is in this notion, the notion that, Poverty Anywhere is Poverty Everywhere, that I am committed to training all of our national team players – there must be poverty nowhere, there must be no weak link whatsoever in our National Teams. It is in this notion that we are committing to ensuring that there are no weak links in our coaching hierarchy or in our player developmental path. The goal is to seek and flush any strain of poverty.
The National Team, in particular, will be exposed to what I refer to as, equitable coaching, which simply means that the least of our players will be dealt more.
At no time would we have a “bona fide” bench player, which simply means that, players on the bench will never be sitting there because they have no right to be on the field – the only reason why they are not on the field is because of tactical deploy and because of game rules - anyone that sits the bench is there for that (those) reason(s) only – this is the aim as we focus on developing a full National Team for battles ahead and for the all future journeys.
All players will be trained and ready to carry out any task successfully because he will be at his peak’s best and ready to make Trojan contributions – as stated by John Wooden, who urges that all “shall get ready and perhaps their chance will come”. To Coach Wooden, getting ready is the answer, but there is a chance that that chance would not come. Sad will be the day if the chance comes and you are not ready though. It is vividly clear that, at no time must the team’s peak performance be spiraling downward because of a “weak link” substitution.
And so, I reiterate, poverty anywhere on the bench is poverty everywhere on the team, and this will not be the plight of this, and soon to be, any Trinidad & Tobago National Team – indeed, the converse will be the case.
Copyright© 2003, Hannibal Najjar (Technical Director/Head Coach)
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Poverty Anywhere is Poverty everywhere
