Let’s not limit our footballers exposure and development opportunities

[Karl]

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">Let’s not limit our footballers exposure and development opportunities <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o></SPAN></U>[/B]<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">In a recent sports commentary programme, Mr. Oral Tracy raised an interesting point worthy of review, thought and discussion amongst football lovers.<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Mr. Tracy raised the point admittedly as a question as to whether Technical Director Bora was not ‘wasting time’ by doing the scouting of players island-wide as he has been doing since early January. <o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">To date, of writing, the Technical Director had sessions with coaches of senior and under 23 teams of all four confederations and sessions with players in these categories in three of the confederations.<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">The Technical Director had also been to numerous Premier League, Super League and Corner League matches as well as matches at the schoolboy level. He has reportedly been stressing some basic coaching principles necessary for all players to develop their full potential including making the transition to the national level.<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">According to the sports commentator, it may be wasting time because when it comes to the time to choose and put together the squad for World Cup qualification, Coach Bora will have no choice but to choose overseas based players as they are the professionals and they have the required international experience.<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">The position went further; Mr. Tracy submitted that whereas this scouting was necessary in the 1998 world cu

[Siya]

RE: Let’s not limit our footballers exposure and development opportunities

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Isn’t our mandate also to expose, facilitate and create opportunities to as much of our football talent as possible?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t we want as much of our footballers to earn for themselves, their families and the country, big time?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o></SPAN>

What say ye"fast food fans".

[Karl]

RE: Let’s not limit our footballers exposure and development opportunities

Siya (1/29/2007)

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Isn’t our mandate also to expose, facilitate and create opportunities to as much of our football talent as possible?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t we want as much of our footballers to earn for themselves, their families and the country, big time?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o></SPAN>

What say ye"fast food fans".

...and, to do that you do as does...say, Brazil.

1st - Create a TOP OF THE WORLD senior team.

2nd &amp; 3rd- Do the same with your other national teams...that is, CreateTOP OF THE WORLD teams...

...and, rotate youngsters within the national senior team. Why rotate? You keep good national team displays! You create the climate/environment in which the youngsters can shine! You make our yongsters display their 'shining wares' in the world's marketplace! (What you do not do is put the youngsters in situations where it is almost impossible for best possible performances!)

Result shall be - Improvement of local NPL teams and the world will come running NOT JUST for those seen at the NATIONAL TEAM level or other national teams' levels but from our NPL teams...and, schoolboys.

We are happy to have had the current outflow ('98 to present) of players...but any reasonable person will agree the numbers are pitiful when we consider the vast numbers of our players who would welcome the economic advance a 'fair' professional contract would bring. Certainly we (JFF &amp;The Massive) want to do for our people? ...and, we surely want to do well for a very many of our footballers?

So let's do things right! A running around the world with'****-arsed' teams, will get us the continued trickle of professional contracts...while rotating our youngsters in good team - (teams...ifgood national senior, U-23s,U-20s and U-17s, as they should be, are properly prepared) - will bring a flood of opportunities and professional contracts.

Which team do we really think will cause the world to sit up and take notice...

a) Half-arsed 5th rate team?

b) Good team?