Orion wrote:
Kabalega wrote:
90% of French NT players play outside France.
You guys need to learn what it takes to build a championship team.
Ha, but they were found, groomed, and trained in France. Most of them were trained at
Clairefontaine. They only moved abroad when they were already the finished article or close to the finished article.
Without a decent home league, we're dependent almost entirely now on foreign clubs for training our discovered young talent (that are just too good to be left in the decaying NPFL) and many of them fall by the wayside abroad.
Not to mention, after a certain age (lets say 14), clubs or academies are not really able to instil certain fundamentals. They can mould some new habits, but many of the critical ones such as spatial awareness are hard to hardwire at that point.
To Kabalega.
We speak of the lack of Nigerian players at the top clubs in Europe, but this is largely a measure of where they are coming from, furthermore why do we speak about creating youth channels as if this is some roadtest and our job is to simply show that we are doing something. Are our U15s, U17s trained appropriately in the fundamentals?
When you see some of our full fledged players, as good as they can be, many of them lack some basic fundamentals till their testimonial match! They succeed in spite of it! And really, to become world class, you cannot lack in too many departments nowadays!
You want to build a team around philosophies and coaching instead of talents instilled with the fundamentals? The two are one and the same! Tactics, philosophies are not something you slap on, it works best when the players fit the system. Even in the past 15 years, many of Nigeria's footballers have even been unable to play Nigerian football! What an irony. The essence of Nigerian football, apart from the transition in general is wingplay! How many Nigerian footballers can consistently put a good cross in? But you think that simply improving the tactical outlook on the game will make us a world beater? BTW Iceland are NOT World Beaters! They are alright, but their ranking flatters them, and they can only play in one limited manner. They lack true quality and get by with compactness and set-pieces. At best we can say they are 'organized', at worst we say they play 'negative football'
Nigeria needs all the things that Kabalega proposes, but we need our players being taught the fundamentals at very early ages, perhaps some of that is helped by having more qualified coaches, but a lot of that is about the academies, the leagues as well.
This is why England are not dominant than Spain, I highly doubt that Spain has better footballing resources than England, or for better measure let us point to countries such as Croatia, Italy, France, Portugal, Greece etc. England's footballing infrastructure and reach is unprecedented. Their Philosophy is back to front and that is the problem, the reason the French and the Spanish dominate the English league is not because 'Any league will do', but because the English themselves lack the foresight to be as dominant in their own league as they should be!
Login
Register
FAQ
Search
