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Are you serious, Rene Simoes?
SOMEHOW I think our football National Technical Director, Rene Simoes, either underrates the intelligence of the average football fan or he truly has no clue how to go about preparing us for the upcoming CONCACAF World Cup qualifying series.
Right on the heels of the notso-well-thought-out tour to Brazil where he creamed off the best local players, robbing the local clubs of their services for an extended period, we now hear he invited Englandbased Deon Burton for last night’s friendly international against Trinidad and Tobago at the national stadium.
Maybe by today we’ll be recalling an outstanding game by Burton last night and my griping will be like water on a sow’s back, but based on the clips we heard on television and radio, the Sheffield Wednesday striker was invited to join the Reggae Boyz, not on what he is doing now, but hear this, what he did during the successful 1998 campaign.
Since Simoes is hoping lightning will strike in the same place twice and we will advance to the World Cup finals in South Africa two years hence, he might as well try to resuscitate the careers of Marcus Gayle, Robbie Earle and Fitzroy Simpson, the other English-based players who had made the trip here over 12 years ago.
Maybe Simoes is still trying to come to grips with the language when he spoke about Burton’s heroics off the bench in the 1997 campaign, as I am certain he could never hope the player would still be as good as he was then, given the passage and ravages of time on the body.
Eleven years is a lifetime in sports, especially football, and to think that Burton can produce today as he did then is nothing short of foolhardy or maybe being way too hopeful.
Maybe Burton’s seven goals for the relegation-threatened Sheffield Wednesday was what caught Simoes’ eye, but if he thinks Burton is the answer to our goal- scoring problems, then we are in a worse-off situation than we thought.
Time is too short for experimenting with players on the downside of their careers, trying to hang on bad teams.
It would be wise for Simoes to remember his description of our qualification to France when he described it as building a house from the roof down. Maybe he needs to concentrate more on putting in infrastructure for long-term development rather than trying to build the house from the roof down... again.
SOMEHOW I think our football National Technical Director, Rene Simoes, either underrates the intelligence of the average football fan or he truly has no clue how to go about preparing us for the upcoming CONCACAF World Cup qualifying series.
Right on the heels of the notso-well-thought-out tour to Brazil where he creamed off the best local players, robbing the local clubs of their services for an extended period, we now hear he invited Englandbased Deon Burton for last night’s friendly international against Trinidad and Tobago at the national stadium.
Maybe by today we’ll be recalling an outstanding game by Burton last night and my griping will be like water on a sow’s back, but based on the clips we heard on television and radio, the Sheffield Wednesday striker was invited to join the Reggae Boyz, not on what he is doing now, but hear this, what he did during the successful 1998 campaign.
Since Simoes is hoping lightning will strike in the same place twice and we will advance to the World Cup finals in South Africa two years hence, he might as well try to resuscitate the careers of Marcus Gayle, Robbie Earle and Fitzroy Simpson, the other English-based players who had made the trip here over 12 years ago.
Maybe Simoes is still trying to come to grips with the language when he spoke about Burton’s heroics off the bench in the 1997 campaign, as I am certain he could never hope the player would still be as good as he was then, given the passage and ravages of time on the body.
Eleven years is a lifetime in sports, especially football, and to think that Burton can produce today as he did then is nothing short of foolhardy or maybe being way too hopeful.
Maybe Burton’s seven goals for the relegation-threatened Sheffield Wednesday was what caught Simoes’ eye, but if he thinks Burton is the answer to our goal- scoring problems, then we are in a worse-off situation than we thought.
Time is too short for experimenting with players on the downside of their careers, trying to hang on bad teams.
It would be wise for Simoes to remember his description of our qualification to France when he described it as building a house from the roof down. Maybe he needs to concentrate more on putting in infrastructure for long-term development rather than trying to build the house from the roof down... again.
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