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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Winning is important Winning is important. anyone who says it is not so is not addressing reality.
We believe it is extremely important that winning is defined within the parameters of the greater good.
Those who would seek to win, if they mean to create a meaningful football industry; if they seek to make meaningful improvement at every level; if they mean to improve the lives of the persons involved in our fledging football industry and as a consequence stimulate associated economic activities and provide such economic benefit to persons involved and impacted by activities at that level, then winning, for them, must be defined
within the context of what is good for Jamaica.
Sometimes we get the feeling that those who lead and provide guidance at and from the top are myopic and cannot see or even understand the enormity of the responsibility they bear to those whose lives are touched by football.
The desire to attend at the World FIFa Cup finals cannot be merely about the “feel good factor” gained by being on the world’s largest sports stage. The underlying desire must be to be a part of the multi-billion activity that is part and parcel of being active participants in a multi-billion football industry and reaping ‘fair share’. It must be about changing lives for the good.
It is extremely difficult to get information on the size and scope of activities within and associated with our local football. although we have tried to get answers from those who oversee our football at various levels, answers are not forthcoming.
If we should hazard a guess on the size of that segment of our economy defined in dollars by using the base figures found in the 2006 FIFa Goal Project publication, “The Big Count”, of there being 168,494 active players, 274 clubs and 5,037 officials -
and we then go on to make the following assumptions:
a) spending on players clothing and equipment averaged JaD20,000.00 per player per year for that reported 168,494 players would be JaD3,369.880,000.00 annually;
b) spending on nutrition, medical expenses, insurance policy premiums averaged JaD547, 000.00 per player, per year for the reported 168,494 players would be JaD22, 447,613,150.00 annually.
Following on the preceding assumptions make us not surprised when we were told that the average annual budgeted expenses of each of our National Premier Club/Digicel Premier League Club are JaD50, 000,000.00…that our 12 NPL/DPL clubs have combined budgeted expenses of approximately JaD600, 000,000.00 per year.
We will leave you to think on possible numbers of associated persons who provide services to local football and sums of monies involved.
So when we speak of the ‘greater good’, how should we view leadership of this fledging industry? What will it take to have other sections of the society come on board in viewing football as worthy of serious consideration to expend resources? How can we convince our private sector movers and shakers to get in the game?
What is it our football leaders want to win? …and how do they define winning?
However they define winning, that winning is important to the entire Jamaica.
http://www.reggaeboyzsc.com/editoria...x?val=a&id=131
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Winning is important Winning is important. anyone who says it is not so is not addressing reality.
We believe it is extremely important that winning is defined within the parameters of the greater good.
Those who would seek to win, if they mean to create a meaningful football industry; if they seek to make meaningful improvement at every level; if they mean to improve the lives of the persons involved in our fledging football industry and as a consequence stimulate associated economic activities and provide such economic benefit to persons involved and impacted by activities at that level, then winning, for them, must be defined
within the context of what is good for Jamaica.
Sometimes we get the feeling that those who lead and provide guidance at and from the top are myopic and cannot see or even understand the enormity of the responsibility they bear to those whose lives are touched by football.
The desire to attend at the World FIFa Cup finals cannot be merely about the “feel good factor” gained by being on the world’s largest sports stage. The underlying desire must be to be a part of the multi-billion activity that is part and parcel of being active participants in a multi-billion football industry and reaping ‘fair share’. It must be about changing lives for the good.
It is extremely difficult to get information on the size and scope of activities within and associated with our local football. although we have tried to get answers from those who oversee our football at various levels, answers are not forthcoming.
If we should hazard a guess on the size of that segment of our economy defined in dollars by using the base figures found in the 2006 FIFa Goal Project publication, “The Big Count”, of there being 168,494 active players, 274 clubs and 5,037 officials -
and we then go on to make the following assumptions:
a) spending on players clothing and equipment averaged JaD20,000.00 per player per year for that reported 168,494 players would be JaD3,369.880,000.00 annually;
b) spending on nutrition, medical expenses, insurance policy premiums averaged JaD547, 000.00 per player, per year for the reported 168,494 players would be JaD22, 447,613,150.00 annually.
Following on the preceding assumptions make us not surprised when we were told that the average annual budgeted expenses of each of our National Premier Club/Digicel Premier League Club are JaD50, 000,000.00…that our 12 NPL/DPL clubs have combined budgeted expenses of approximately JaD600, 000,000.00 per year.
We will leave you to think on possible numbers of associated persons who provide services to local football and sums of monies involved.
So when we speak of the ‘greater good’, how should we view leadership of this fledging industry? What will it take to have other sections of the society come on board in viewing football as worthy of serious consideration to expend resources? How can we convince our private sector movers and shakers to get in the game?
What is it our football leaders want to win? …and how do they define winning?
However they define winning, that winning is important to the entire Jamaica.
http://www.reggaeboyzsc.com/editoria...x?val=a&id=131
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