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To The Top ! Examination the Coaches - Federation & Fans.
Examination – Coaches
The second examination is of the coaching staff. Coaching is a form of development in which a person supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance.Tappa has been a national coach from 2007; in 2014 he was the U20 coach, what has he achieved in terms of licensure/accreditation since then. What has his assistants achieved since then. Basically, the question of licensure comes up as a means of evaluating best coaching practices in this concluded G.C and in comparison, to our competitors/adversaries of getting desired results. Besides experience as coaches in the RSPL and being former players, in and for Jamaica, in the case of Tappa and Lawrence, do they have a license to coach that is of the required standard of best practices. Contrast their standard to our adversaries who we say we want to unseat as Concacaf King Pins, where the A and Pro lic is mandated to coach in North America and Europe, and without having any knowledge of the Mexican standards, I suspect it to be the same. The reason I say this is because best practices in Europe of coaching is the driving force of licensure around the world, and they dictate and mandate that in order to be a coach in a professional league you have to have the A or Pro lic. To put it bluntly USSF/USL mimics best practices of licensure from the European standard. A brief description of the UEFA A Lic; it is designed to educate candidates in the technical, tactical, physical and mental requirements of modern football. The course develops candidates' ability to devise, organize, conduct and evaluate coaching sessions in advanced skills, tactics, strategies and systems of play. It will also give an understanding of how to apply modern methods for sports science and sports medicine. In order to get the Pro lic one has to practice with the A lic for at least 12 months, also of importance before attaining the A lic,the individual must attain the B lic.
With that in mind the JFF recently had a class on the Concacaf B licensure course reported in the newspapers. No report was given if it was/is on par with the USSF/UEFA B standard or if what was taught was part of the curriculum of licensure and not the whole. With that said here are some of the comments of those who took part of a recent course in the Concacaf B license (again no Tappa) reported in our newspapers , of which coaches Marcel Gayle, Wayne Campbell, Alex Thomas , Shavar Thomas and Donovan Duckie attended and stated , “I thought, not just for me, but for coaching development in Jamaica, it was very good… I thought the course was very informative and educational, plus it broadened my horizon, and I think I speak for my fellow participants when I say that… a course like this challenged us and forced us to see the game in a different light,” said outgoing Portmore United Head Coach Shavar Thomas. Cavalier FC coach, Rudolph Spied, who also participated in the B License coaching activity, gave the exercise the proverbial thumbs up. “It is the best thing the JFF has done for the coaches, myself included, to get this pilot project to come here, and I expect all participating coaches would have improved by 100 per cent as the areas of instruction were very precise and addressed key specifics, which included how to read the opponent and how to counter them…… what these courses show is that we (Jamaican coaches) have been lambs to the slaughter because this is information that we didn't have before.
Given that context, 20 years post world cup 98, how far is Tappa and our national/local coaches behind our competitors in Concacaf, given the above statements, was our recent Gold Cup performance unexpected , and can we expect same in our world cup campaign?
Examination -The Federation
The Trinity – "At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques." Bill Shankley one of Liverpool Football Club (LFC) greatest manager, in fact the first manager to put Liverpool on the English and European football map. To sum it up a well-run club should have qualified managers/coaches running a successful professional club, and directors should not be impeding it but enabling it. This trend continues today where at LFC the owners are hardly seen. You contrast that with the JFF where there is a constant stream of negative news with the persistent theme, that they are broke and begging for money to the point of the lack of practice matches for team or money to pay players and coaches. To be fair to Ricketts he inherited this chaos, but it does not absolve him from fixing the problem, after all that’s why he ran for the presidency.
The current JFF president in September 2017, after being elected, when asked about the need for a manifesto stated he has no need for a manifesto because he has a plan forward. Well here we are almost two years later, and his plan has yet to be revealed. Given the persistence of being constantly broke ,unable to prepare national teams for FIFA competitions, not able to pay players and coaches and the lack of investing in our local or national coaches to the required standard of best practices, are we asking for too much for the plan to be revealed. Is it too late to ask for a plan and should we instead be asking for change ?
The problem that I see coming, like a brick to one’s face, is the JFF sacking our national coaches when results are not going our way in the upcoming world cup campaign. Will the shock of the impact of losses, render us confused or numb to make the right change. It’s not inconceivable for the JFF to make the same mistakes of the past in desperation and hire an overseas coach with the required standard of best practice licensure, resulting in an outlay of astronomical wages which will leave the JFF further in debt and Jamaican football worse off than before. It seems to be the predictable pattern post world cup 98, of a certain impending repetitive disaster, and the JFF seem to expect different results, isn’t that definition of madness. Seriously haven’t we been there before, all the above can simply be avoided by the JFF investing in our local/national coaches to achieve the required A standard of licensure. We can recruit within our local population of coaches and spread the knowledge of how to play the game of football within our own cultural economic reality, thereby saving millions which can be reinvested in the national program. Instead of having the repetitive flight of money and knowledge of best coaching practices when these foreign coaches leave. I believe if the JFF owes its stakeholders anything, then the least is qualified coaches that best practices demands .
Examination – Fans
Given the context of what best practices of football demands, the least of which is coaches of the required A standard running your national teams . Our knowledge of this standard leads us to demand that the JFF put that in place for the sake of Jamaican football. It is time we demand it ;we need to call for it in the media, which is print ,social media (internet), radio and in person that the least of this is (best practices in coaching standards ). Crying and blaming players is not an excuse anymore. The data is out there as to what best practices call for in terms of coaching; what is needed and what the likely results will be without it. If we continue along this vein and don’t call a spade a spade then we are party to mediocrity and we have nothing to complain about. If the JFF does not take certain action to remedy this course, we should seriously consider taking direct action to force change, as Martin Luther king stated by using economic and political acts, which "create such a crisis and foster such a tension" as to demand a response. Fans and corporate Jamaica should consider such initiatives against the JFF until best practices of upgrading our coaches to the required standard are met.
Forever Relevant !
Examination – Coaches
The second examination is of the coaching staff. Coaching is a form of development in which a person supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance.Tappa has been a national coach from 2007; in 2014 he was the U20 coach, what has he achieved in terms of licensure/accreditation since then. What has his assistants achieved since then. Basically, the question of licensure comes up as a means of evaluating best coaching practices in this concluded G.C and in comparison, to our competitors/adversaries of getting desired results. Besides experience as coaches in the RSPL and being former players, in and for Jamaica, in the case of Tappa and Lawrence, do they have a license to coach that is of the required standard of best practices. Contrast their standard to our adversaries who we say we want to unseat as Concacaf King Pins, where the A and Pro lic is mandated to coach in North America and Europe, and without having any knowledge of the Mexican standards, I suspect it to be the same. The reason I say this is because best practices in Europe of coaching is the driving force of licensure around the world, and they dictate and mandate that in order to be a coach in a professional league you have to have the A or Pro lic. To put it bluntly USSF/USL mimics best practices of licensure from the European standard. A brief description of the UEFA A Lic; it is designed to educate candidates in the technical, tactical, physical and mental requirements of modern football. The course develops candidates' ability to devise, organize, conduct and evaluate coaching sessions in advanced skills, tactics, strategies and systems of play. It will also give an understanding of how to apply modern methods for sports science and sports medicine. In order to get the Pro lic one has to practice with the A lic for at least 12 months, also of importance before attaining the A lic,the individual must attain the B lic.
With that in mind the JFF recently had a class on the Concacaf B licensure course reported in the newspapers. No report was given if it was/is on par with the USSF/UEFA B standard or if what was taught was part of the curriculum of licensure and not the whole. With that said here are some of the comments of those who took part of a recent course in the Concacaf B license (again no Tappa) reported in our newspapers , of which coaches Marcel Gayle, Wayne Campbell, Alex Thomas , Shavar Thomas and Donovan Duckie attended and stated , “I thought, not just for me, but for coaching development in Jamaica, it was very good… I thought the course was very informative and educational, plus it broadened my horizon, and I think I speak for my fellow participants when I say that… a course like this challenged us and forced us to see the game in a different light,” said outgoing Portmore United Head Coach Shavar Thomas. Cavalier FC coach, Rudolph Spied, who also participated in the B License coaching activity, gave the exercise the proverbial thumbs up. “It is the best thing the JFF has done for the coaches, myself included, to get this pilot project to come here, and I expect all participating coaches would have improved by 100 per cent as the areas of instruction were very precise and addressed key specifics, which included how to read the opponent and how to counter them…… what these courses show is that we (Jamaican coaches) have been lambs to the slaughter because this is information that we didn't have before.
Given that context, 20 years post world cup 98, how far is Tappa and our national/local coaches behind our competitors in Concacaf, given the above statements, was our recent Gold Cup performance unexpected , and can we expect same in our world cup campaign?
Examination -The Federation
The Trinity – "At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques." Bill Shankley one of Liverpool Football Club (LFC) greatest manager, in fact the first manager to put Liverpool on the English and European football map. To sum it up a well-run club should have qualified managers/coaches running a successful professional club, and directors should not be impeding it but enabling it. This trend continues today where at LFC the owners are hardly seen. You contrast that with the JFF where there is a constant stream of negative news with the persistent theme, that they are broke and begging for money to the point of the lack of practice matches for team or money to pay players and coaches. To be fair to Ricketts he inherited this chaos, but it does not absolve him from fixing the problem, after all that’s why he ran for the presidency.
The current JFF president in September 2017, after being elected, when asked about the need for a manifesto stated he has no need for a manifesto because he has a plan forward. Well here we are almost two years later, and his plan has yet to be revealed. Given the persistence of being constantly broke ,unable to prepare national teams for FIFA competitions, not able to pay players and coaches and the lack of investing in our local or national coaches to the required standard of best practices, are we asking for too much for the plan to be revealed. Is it too late to ask for a plan and should we instead be asking for change ?
The problem that I see coming, like a brick to one’s face, is the JFF sacking our national coaches when results are not going our way in the upcoming world cup campaign. Will the shock of the impact of losses, render us confused or numb to make the right change. It’s not inconceivable for the JFF to make the same mistakes of the past in desperation and hire an overseas coach with the required standard of best practice licensure, resulting in an outlay of astronomical wages which will leave the JFF further in debt and Jamaican football worse off than before. It seems to be the predictable pattern post world cup 98, of a certain impending repetitive disaster, and the JFF seem to expect different results, isn’t that definition of madness. Seriously haven’t we been there before, all the above can simply be avoided by the JFF investing in our local/national coaches to achieve the required A standard of licensure. We can recruit within our local population of coaches and spread the knowledge of how to play the game of football within our own cultural economic reality, thereby saving millions which can be reinvested in the national program. Instead of having the repetitive flight of money and knowledge of best coaching practices when these foreign coaches leave. I believe if the JFF owes its stakeholders anything, then the least is qualified coaches that best practices demands .
Examination – Fans
Given the context of what best practices of football demands, the least of which is coaches of the required A standard running your national teams . Our knowledge of this standard leads us to demand that the JFF put that in place for the sake of Jamaican football. It is time we demand it ;we need to call for it in the media, which is print ,social media (internet), radio and in person that the least of this is (best practices in coaching standards ). Crying and blaming players is not an excuse anymore. The data is out there as to what best practices call for in terms of coaching; what is needed and what the likely results will be without it. If we continue along this vein and don’t call a spade a spade then we are party to mediocrity and we have nothing to complain about. If the JFF does not take certain action to remedy this course, we should seriously consider taking direct action to force change, as Martin Luther king stated by using economic and political acts, which "create such a crisis and foster such a tension" as to demand a response. Fans and corporate Jamaica should consider such initiatives against the JFF until best practices of upgrading our coaches to the required standard are met.
Forever Relevant !
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