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About a decade ago I read a wonderful article about the West German F.A., who felt that something had to be done about the quality of coaching at the basic levels. The date: July 1966. Event that forced this: losing to England in extra time in the World Cup final. Remember this was a country that was still only 20 years old and was bankrupt at the time.
The "grass-roots" revolution (that Brooking now goes on about) was implemented in Germany by the Autumn of 1966. Soon, nobody was allowed to coach anyone - including school children - unless they had a UEFA licence. So 50,000 coaches had qualified by 1970 (England had less than 500). Every team learns the basics, and they learn to play in the same system all the time. German club teams are successful as soon as the first graduates of the new system reach adulthood. The national team follow suit and remain so for 20 years. By comparison, England do £#%&! all, instead boasting that they had always been better than Johnnie Foreigner. Then they sack the manager when he fails to retain the World Cup years later with an aged squad. Every manager - and even the Chief Executives - have had their hands tied by more levels of bureaucracy and self-serving committees than any government could dream of. £20m couldn't be found to put a proper School of Excellence in place, but £770m was wasted on a national stadium that's not needed and generally despised. But let's not forget "2 World Wars and 1 World Cup". Come on you plucky Three Lions!. |
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He won't leave until he wins that 19th title in my opinion and, if we don't do some serious spending in the summer, he may be here for another couple of years at least. |
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The coaching in this country is a joke imo. |
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To be fair, I wanted to come back as koppas but I forgot my password and the thing to get my password reset didn't work so here I am. I have even subscribed with this name so I am ad-free. Anyway, koppas is gone. Treme is here. Carry on. |
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