Nigeria should follow the Uruguayan system
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BP leave tori, two World Cups when? before you were born.Bigpokey24 wrote:2 worldcups..olodo1naija wrote:We will hear this crap until they lose. What the heck is Uruguayan system and what has it won then that the "Nigerian system" hasn't won Nigeria?
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Oboy it's still 2 worldcups ooookalani JR wrote:BP leave tori, two World Cups when? before you were born.Bigpokey24 wrote:2 worldcups..olodo1naija wrote:We will hear this crap until they lose. What the heck is Uruguayan system and what has it won then that the "Nigerian system" hasn't won Nigeria?
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Re: Nigeria should follow the Uruguayan system
1930 and 1950. Some system.Bigpokey24 wrote:2 worldcups..olodo1naija wrote:We will hear this crap until they lose. What the heck is Uruguayan system and what has it won then that the "Nigerian system" hasn't won Nigeria?
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Uruguayan players play for the love of country
Naija players, like their politicians, are there only for the money & exposure
Naija players, like their politicians, are there only for the money & exposure
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And Ghana players play to make up the numbers.Rawlings wrote:Uruguayan players play for the love of country
Naija players, like their politicians, are there only for the money & exposure
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They do not have a well organized league. What they have is a solid structure of educating their small pool of players before they leave the shores.
YUJAM wrote:There is a lot more to the Uruguayan system than keeping the same manager for 12 yrs. They have solid football structures and a well organzed league. Look at El Matador’s two goals. He learned that technique early in his career
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Why is everything about Ghana?1naija wrote:And Ghana players play to make up the numbers.Rawlings wrote:Uruguayan players play for the love of country
Naija players, like their politicians, are there only for the money & exposure
Nwabali -- Aina, Bassey, TroostEkong, Sanusi --- Chukwueze, Aribo, Ndidi, Iwobi --- Osimhem, Sadiq Umar
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African footy is a reflection of African society. You can't expect our football to be good against a backdrop of corruption and incompetence. Until we address our societal woes we will continue to be woeful in this sport.
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What a hypocrite. Abeg someone post those pictures of Ghenien players kissing Dollehs and burning Cedis1naija wrote:And Ghana players play to make up the numbers.Rawlings wrote:Uruguayan players play for the love of country
Naija players, like their politicians, are there only for the money & exposure
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No we had our way/identity and even young folks in the early 20s atleast my Kids mates even knew this..........the only thing they kept asking my kids is 'why is Nigeria not playing their explosive style' .Coach wrote:Uruguay have established a way of playing, an identity, they do what it says on the tin. Nigeria are still finding their way.
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We are not ready we want short cuts. we want Dele Alli to suddenly leave England and come and play for Nigeria and busy checking ancestry.com to find which LGA Mbappe is from.
Serioulsy read about the hardwork Uruguay have put in, apart from greed and corruption the economic and social conditions of Nigeria would make an approach like this very challenging.
Serioulsy read about the hardwork Uruguay have put in, apart from greed and corruption the economic and social conditions of Nigeria would make an approach like this very challenging.
Uruguay: Soccer’s Dead Poets Society
Óscar Tabárez, the man they call Maestro, has found World Cup success by running his team like a boarding school
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uruguay-so ... 1530264601
Sochi, Russia
In the 150 years since soccer was invented on the muddy playing fields of English boarding schools, the sport has changed so much that it would be almost unrecognizable to the blue-blooded boys who kicked around a heavy leather ball.
But it hasn’t changed completely.
Because in a small outpost on the Volga River, a gray-haired 71-year-old who walks with a cane, the man they call Maestro, is still educating young men to carry themselves with character—and win World Cup games.
His name is Óscar Tabárez. And in 12 years in charge of Uruguay’s national team, he has helped turn a country of 3.5 million into the best pound-for-pound team in world soccer by treating his players as if he were a housemaster at Eton or Harrow.
Just as any British boarding school, Tabárez has long said his primary goal was to mold well-rounded men. He imparts lessons about respect, decency, and the importance of good manners. At Tabárez’s request, Uruguay might be the only team in Russia to have its squad of millionaires share bedrooms for the duration of the tournament. And they drink tea constantly.
“He would always say that being a football player is a profession but it is the way you behave as a human being that is important,” said Diego Forlán, a former Uruguay captain under Tabárez. “You can be a talented player, but if you don’t behave well, it’s going to reflect badly on you and your teams.”
Nothing reflected worse on the team than its record in the years before Tabárez took over in 2006. Though Uruguay won World Cups in 1930 and 1950, when squads were still traveling to the tournament by boat, the modern era had been less kind to them. The team hadn’t been near a World Cup semifinal since 1970. And it missed the 2006 tournament entirely. Worse still, Uruguay had earned a reputation as playground bullies with their reckless and physical play.
When Tabárez was called in to fix it, he immediately identified the problem. Uruguay had talented players, but lacked the structure to turn them into upstanding citizens. He drew up a plan to revamp the training of the national teams, a dossier known by the catchy title, “Project for Institutionalizing the Processes of the National Teams and the Training of Their Soccer Players.”
The document wasn’t so much a tactical or technical treatise as a charter for his program. “A young talent should train and prepare for life’s challenges,” Tabárez wrote. “The young person must study, we shouldn’t obstruct that, we should favor it, it increases their sporting potential.”
Other managers at the World Cup simply coach the senior squad. But Tabárez became the dean of the entire men’s national program, from the Under-15s to the team that travels to the World Cup. Every member of those squads would come to train under Tabárez at the national training center, where he could shape their development as players and as people.
First, the setting had to be right. The Celeste Complex outside Montevideo needed to foster a sense of heritage—and, unlike Eton, Tabárez didn’t have a long line of British prime ministers to point to. So he started by commissioning a giant Uruguayan crest for the lobby. He decorated the walls with black-and-white photos of players who had fought for the team’s colors before. And outside, he ordered the federation to install a fogón, a traditional Uruguayan grill that doubled as a campfire, where he could sit with the players and tell stories at night.
Tabárez’s professorial air is no coincidence. Before he went into management full time, he was an elementary-school teacher. To this day, he likes to educate his players on history, geography, the arts, and anything else he happens to find interesting in the moment. This too is part of the Tabárez curriculum.
“One time we played in Japan and we were talking about how we were surprised by the culture,” said Forlán, an analyst for Telemundo Deportes at the World Cup. “So after dinner, the Maestro got the lads together and we listened to him talk about Japan, its history, everything that has happened in the country. He is a very knowledgeable man.”
Tabárez organizes trips for young players to attend museums and the theater. He engages his players on subjects as diverse as classical music and botany. “What Tabárez knows about plants is tremendous,” Claudio Pagani, who runs Uruguay’s national training complex, has said.
Tabárez is also a stickler for good manners. Many a Uruguayan star has run afoul of his no-muddy shoes rule. And there are strict rules about not leaving plates on the table or putting feet up on chairs. The use of cellphones is prohibited at breakfast, lunch, and during team talks or meetings.
Tabárez wants the players to talk to each other, even if it’s only hello.
“When the kids arrive from the U-15, we say that here are two things that can’t be missed: The way you greet people when you arrive and how you interact with the people who work here,” he said in a new book, “Maestro: The Legacy of Tabárez” by Luis Eduardo Inzaurralde and Jorce Señorans. “It doesn’t matter if you don’t know them, it is a sign of coexistence and respect.”
That also extends to the field. Before Uruguay competes in any tournament at senior or youth level, Tabárez lectures the team on what behavior is expected of them. His message is always the same: No fouls, no bad conduct, and whatever happens, no back talk to the referees.
Like every teacher, the Maestro knows that some lessons go in one ear and out the other. During his time in charge, he has overseen striker Luis Suárez commit a deliberate handball in the 2010 World Cup finals and bite an opponent at the 2014 World Cup, for which he was suspended from all soccer for four months. His team has also racked up eight red cards at tournaments, plus countless yellows, including a whopping 18 in six games at the 2011 Copa America, since he took over in 2006.
Still, Uruguay captain Diego Godin said Tabárez continues to tell players how disappointed he is with them, even when they are sent off while playing for their clubs. And Suárez credits the Maestro’s exhortations with turning him into a reformed character.
No matter what happens to this team at this World Cup, Tabárez’s mission to educate Uruguayan players on matters away from the field will continue. He is considering making English lessons available for all youth-team members and providing them with counseling that covers basic contract law to help them navigate the world of professional soccer.
Above all, he wants to keep them in Uruguay for as long as possible, where they can graduate from the Maestro’s school for upstanding soccer players.
“It is as I say to the players of the National Team,” Tabárez said. “You can make good contracts in clubs, gain prestige, but there are some things you can only get playing for Uruguay.”
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Re: Nigeria should follow the Uruguayan system
Uruguay's system is borne out of a national academy structure in which kids are taught to play from the streets and their primary schools all the way through their national academy. What do we have?Bigpokey24 wrote:That's how you ptb and win...also they have the same manager for almost 10 years
They have a Coach who has dedicated his whole life to the betterment of their football. Everything about Uruguay football is planned and it serious commitment and hard work. We got no such things.
We we had a structure, we produced players from home via our football clubs and leagues. Remember we had primary school football competition, sports clubs, Principles Cup, Academicals, inter state competition and the Eagles. Then, everyone knew the players that will be considered for the Eagles because we have seen them develop through a structure. Now, there is no such thing.
We do not have any structure for our football yet we expect miracles at the WC. Thanks to our players, who have gotten no help whatsoever, we were at the WC. It is the sheer desire, determination and hard work of our players that we have a team. It is their efforts alone that has put us where we are. Until, we realised that you cannot plant corn and reap peas, until we put in the right program and structure for our football, we will continue to be 2nd class in a game in which we should be leaders at the top table being the best of the best.
Uruguay Coach, Oscar Tabarez is seriously ill but he is unbowed as he fights on. That inspires his players. I have said this many a time, they are as good as any team to win this WC.
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I think NIgeria should have national and/or regional/state football academies.
FGFCs (Fed Govt Football Colleges) and RGFCs (Regional)
Boarding schools for elite footballing kids from 11 through to 18.
Once you are in there, you get a quality academic education, but football is high on the curriculum.
And it is free.
A little like the drama schools and colleges they have in the UK.
FGFCs (Fed Govt Football Colleges) and RGFCs (Regional)
Boarding schools for elite footballing kids from 11 through to 18.
Once you are in there, you get a quality academic education, but football is high on the curriculum.
And it is free.
A little like the drama schools and colleges they have in the UK.
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Nigerians are not patient people and will always go for a quick fix or a short cut thus keeping a manager for close to a decade probably will never happen.The Uruguayan National League is probably one of South America’s top leagues which is a clear indication that they invest in the sport.Bigpokey24 wrote:That's how you ptb and win...also they have the same manager for almost 10 years
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I kept reading this thing ooo and I dey wonder say Suarez dey under tis regiment so? Me, I no believe say Suarez go respect this kin ting ooo! Any way, I jus read am.
I kept reading this thing ooo and I dey wonder say Suarez dey under tis regiment so? Me, I no believe say Suarez go respect this kin ting ooo! Any way, I jus read am.
AreaDaddy wrote:We are not ready we want short cuts. we want Dele Alli to suddenly leave England and come and play for Nigeria and busy checking ancestry.com to find which LGA Mbappe is from. :big grin: :big grin: :big grin:
Serioulsy read about the hardwork Uruguay have put in, apart from greed and corruption the economic and social conditions of Nigeria would make an approach like this very challenging.
Uruguay: Soccer’s Dead Poets Society
Óscar Tabárez, the man they call Maestro, has found World Cup success by running his team like a boarding school
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uruguay-so ... 1530264601
Sochi, Russia
In the 150 years since soccer was invented on the muddy playing fields of English boarding schools, the sport has changed so much that it would be almost unrecognizable to the blue-blooded boys who kicked around a heavy leather ball.
But it hasn’t changed completely.
Because in a small outpost on the Volga River, a gray-haired 71-year-old who walks with a cane, the man they call Maestro, is still educating young men to carry themselves with character—and win World Cup games.
His name is Óscar Tabárez. And in 12 years in charge of Uruguay’s national team, he has helped turn a country of 3.5 million into the best pound-for-pound team in world soccer by treating his players as if he were a housemaster at Eton or Harrow.
Just as any British boarding school, Tabárez has long said his primary goal was to mold well-rounded men. He imparts lessons about respect, decency, and the importance of good manners. At Tabárez’s request, Uruguay might be the only team in Russia to have its squad of millionaires share bedrooms for the duration of the tournament. And they drink tea constantly.
“He would always say that being a football player is a profession but it is the way you behave as a human being that is important,” said Diego Forlán, a former Uruguay captain under Tabárez. “You can be a talented player, but if you don’t behave well, it’s going to reflect badly on you and your teams.”
Nothing reflected worse on the team than its record in the years before Tabárez took over in 2006. Though Uruguay won World Cups in 1930 and 1950, when squads were still traveling to the tournament by boat, the modern era had been less kind to them. The team hadn’t been near a World Cup semifinal since 1970. And it missed the 2006 tournament entirely. Worse still, Uruguay had earned a reputation as playground bullies with their reckless and physical play.
When Tabárez was called in to fix it, he immediately identified the problem. Uruguay had talented players, but lacked the structure to turn them into upstanding citizens. He drew up a plan to revamp the training of the national teams, a dossier known by the catchy title, “Project for Institutionalizing the Processes of the National Teams and the Training of Their Soccer Players.”
The document wasn’t so much a tactical or technical treatise as a charter for his program. “A young talent should train and prepare for life’s challenges,” Tabárez wrote. “The young person must study, we shouldn’t obstruct that, we should favor it, it increases their sporting potential.”
Other managers at the World Cup simply coach the senior squad. But Tabárez became the dean of the entire men’s national program, from the Under-15s to the team that travels to the World Cup. Every member of those squads would come to train under Tabárez at the national training center, where he could shape their development as players and as people.
First, the setting had to be right. The Celeste Complex outside Montevideo needed to foster a sense of heritage—and, unlike Eton, Tabárez didn’t have a long line of British prime ministers to point to. So he started by commissioning a giant Uruguayan crest for the lobby. He decorated the walls with black-and-white photos of players who had fought for the team’s colors before. And outside, he ordered the federation to install a fogón, a traditional Uruguayan grill that doubled as a campfire, where he could sit with the players and tell stories at night.
Tabárez’s professorial air is no coincidence. Before he went into management full time, he was an elementary-school teacher. To this day, he likes to educate his players on history, geography, the arts, and anything else he happens to find interesting in the moment. This too is part of the Tabárez curriculum.
“One time we played in Japan and we were talking about how we were surprised by the culture,” said Forlán, an analyst for Telemundo Deportes at the World Cup. “So after dinner, the Maestro got the lads together and we listened to him talk about Japan, its history, everything that has happened in the country. He is a very knowledgeable man.”
Tabárez organizes trips for young players to attend museums and the theater. He engages his players on subjects as diverse as classical music and botany. “What Tabárez knows about plants is tremendous,” Claudio Pagani, who runs Uruguay’s national training complex, has said.
Tabárez is also a stickler for good manners. Many a Uruguayan star has run afoul of his no-muddy shoes rule. And there are strict rules about not leaving plates on the table or putting feet up on chairs. The use of cellphones is prohibited at breakfast, lunch, and during team talks or meetings.
Tabárez wants the players to talk to each other, even if it’s only hello.
“When the kids arrive from the U-15, we say that here are two things that can’t be missed: The way you greet people when you arrive and how you interact with the people who work here,” he said in a new book, “Maestro: The Legacy of Tabárez” by Luis Eduardo Inzaurralde and Jorce Señorans. “It doesn’t matter if you don’t know them, it is a sign of coexistence and respect.”
That also extends to the field. Before Uruguay competes in any tournament at senior or youth level, Tabárez lectures the team on what behavior is expected of them. His message is always the same: No fouls, no bad conduct, and whatever happens, no back talk to the referees.
Like every teacher, the Maestro knows that some lessons go in one ear and out the other. During his time in charge, he has overseen striker Luis Suárez commit a deliberate handball in the 2010 World Cup finals and bite an opponent at the 2014 World Cup, for which he was suspended from all soccer for four months. His team has also racked up eight red cards at tournaments, plus countless yellows, including a whopping 18 in six games at the 2011 Copa America, since he took over in 2006.
Still, Uruguay captain Diego Godin said Tabárez continues to tell players how disappointed he is with them, even when they are sent off while playing for their clubs. And Suárez credits the Maestro’s exhortations with turning him into a reformed character.
No matter what happens to this team at this World Cup, Tabárez’s mission to educate Uruguayan players on matters away from the field will continue. He is considering making English lessons available for all youth-team members and providing them with counseling that covers basic contract law to help them navigate the world of professional soccer.
Above all, he wants to keep them in Uruguay for as long as possible, where they can graduate from the Maestro’s school for upstanding soccer players.
“It is as I say to the players of the National Team,” Tabárez said. “You can make good contracts in clubs, gain prestige, but there are some things you can only get playing for Uruguay.”
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KYLIAN MBPAPPE IS 19 YEARS OLDkajifu wrote:While we are at it at copy copy,why not copy France with alot of African players?
and ran through the argies defence like it was nothing. Yet people take offense when I say Iwobi should and can do the same.
Colo mentality is still strong.
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Who is taking offense?guest83 wrote:KYLIAN MBPAPPE IS 19 YEARS OLDkajifu wrote:While we are at it at copy copy,why not copy France with alot of African players?
and ran through the argies defence like it was nothing. Yet people take offense when I say Iwobi should and can do the same.
Colo mentality is still strong.
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France is a young team second youngest after us but nobody is saying they are there to learn. The youngsters are giving the chance to express themselves.guest83 wrote:KYLIAN MBPAPPE IS 19 YEARS OLDkajifu wrote:While we are at it at copy copy,why not copy France with alot of African players?
and ran through the argies defence like it was nothing. Yet people take offense when I say Iwobi should and can do the same.
Colo mentality is still strong.
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My point exactly. But there is no use discussing this further. And this topic is sensitive so I will not make any more post on it. We just have to wait until people wake up..and it's it a pity we are still not there in the year 2018. It's a shame.maceo4 wrote:France is a young team second youngest after us but nobody is saying they are there to learn. The youngsters are giving the chance to express themselves.guest83 wrote:KYLIAN MBPAPPE IS 19 YEARS OLDkajifu wrote:While we are at it at copy copy,why not copy France with alot of African players?
and ran through the argies defence like it was nothing. Yet people take offense when I say Iwobi should and can do the same.
Colo mentality is still strong.
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The records are not significantly superior when you check the relatively recent records.1naija wrote:1930 and 1950. Some system.Bigpokey24 wrote:2 worldcups..olodo1naija wrote:We will hear this crap until they lose. What the heck is Uruguayan system and what has it won then that the "Nigerian system" hasn't won Nigeria?
Records from 1960 -
Nigeria FIFA World Cup record
Code: Select all
Year Host(s) Round Position Pld W D L GF GA
1962 Chile Did not qualify
1966 England Withdrew
1970 Mexico Did not qualify
1974 West Germany Did not qualify
1978 Argentina Did not qualify
1982 Spain Did not qualify
1986 Mexico Did not qualify
1990 Italy Did not qualify
1994 United States Round of 16 9th 4 2 0 2 7 4
1998 France Round of 16 12th 4 2 0 2 6 9
2002 South Korea and Japan Group stage 27th 3 0 1 2 1 3
2006 Germany Did not qualify
2010 South Africa Group stage 27th 3 0 1 2 3 5
2014 Brazil Round of 16 16th 4 1 1 2 3 5
2018 Russia Group Stage 21st 3 1 0 2 3 4
2022 Qatar To be decided
World Cup total 6/15 21 6 3 12 23 30
Code: Select all
Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA
Chile 1962 Group stage 13th 3 1 0 2 4 6
England 1966 Quarter-finals 7th 4 1 2 1 2 5
Mexico 1970 Fourth place 4th 6 2 1 3 4 5
West Germany 1974 Group stage 13th 3 0 1 2 1 6
Argentina 1978 Did not qualify
Spain 1982 Did not qualify
Mexico 1986 Round of 16 16th 4 0 2 2 2 8
Italy 1990 Round of 16 16th 4 1 1 2 2 5
United States 1994 Did not qualify
France 1998 Did not qualify
South Korea and Japan 2002 Group stage 26th 3 0 2 1 4 5
Germany 2006 Did not qualify
South Africa 2010 Fourth place 4th 7 3 2 2 11 8
Brazil 2014 Round of 16 12th 4 2 0 2 4 6
Russia 2018 Quarter-finals TBD 4 4 0 0 7 1
Total 10/15 0 titles 42 14 11 17 41 55
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Records from 1994 -
Nigeria FIFA World Cup record
Uruguay FIFA World Cup record
Nigeria FIFA World Cup record
Code: Select all
Year Host(s) Round Position Pld W D L GF GA
1994 United States Round of 16 9th 4 2 0 2 7 4
1998 France Round of 16 12th 4 2 0 2 6 9
2002 South Korea and Japan Group stage 27th 3 0 1 2 1 3
2006 Germany Did not qualify
2010 South Africa Group stage 27th 3 0 1 2 3 5
2014 Brazil Round of 16 16th 4 1 1 2 3 5
2018 Russia Group Stage 21st 3 1 0 2 3 4
2022 Qatar To be decided
World Cup total 6/7 21 6 3 12 23 30
Code: Select all
Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA
United States 1994 Did not qualify
France 1998 Did not qualify
South Korea and Japan 2002 Group stage 26th 3 0 2 1 4 5
Germany 2006 Did not qualify
South Africa 2010 Fourth place 4th 7 3 2 2 11 8
Brazil 2014 Round of 16 12th 4 2 0 2 4 6
Russia 2018 Quarter-finals TBD 4 4 0 0 7 1
Total 4/7 0 titles 18 9 4 5 26 20
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Chief Dammy sef. You guys are hilarious.Dammy wrote:When we tell some CEs, Rome was not built in a day, they don't accept.
A lot of the Uruguayan players are attending their 3rd WC I.e. Suarez, Cavani, Godin, Rodriguez, Caxares, Muslera and reached the SF in 2010, played 2 Copa America and won one, played in 2013 Confederations Cup. That is 6 major competitions over the past 8 years, contrast that to Nigeria that has 17 of it's 23 man squad attending their first senior competition.
The difference is clear, you can't buy experience in the market.
Your coach gave you guys a built-in excuse of using the ULTIMATE football competition to build for the next world cup yet he took some older players who didn't give you anything in this world cup or the one he was building for.
Uruguay rewarded their coach for good performance hence why he is still there 10 years after. If he had failed, they won't have rewarded him with contract extension to supervise the Forlan/Cavani/Suarez generation. In his initial go around with the team, he was FIRED for failing. But when he was given the job the second time around, he succeeded hence he why he is still there.
But you guys want to extend the contract of a coach who failed. He would have had a solid argument to be retained if we went out like Senegal, via technicality.
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I thought the same thing myself the article itself touches on thisEnugu II wrote:AreaDaddy,
I kept reading this thing ooo and I dey wonder say Suarez dey under tis regiment so? Me, I no believe say Suarez go respect this kin ting ooo! Any way, I jus read am.
AreaDaddy wrote:We are not ready we want short cuts. we want Dele Alli to suddenly leave England and come and play for Nigeria and busy checking ancestry.com to find which LGA Mbappe is from. :big grin: :big grin: :big grin:
Serioulsy read about the hardwork Uruguay have put in, apart from greed and corruption the economic and social conditions of Nigeria would make an approach like this very challenging.
Uruguay: Soccer’s Dead Poets Society
Óscar Tabárez, the man they call Maestro, has found World Cup success by running his team like a boarding school
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uruguay-so ... 1530264601
Sochi, Russia
In the 150 years since soccer was invented on the muddy playing fields of English boarding schools, the sport has changed so much that it would be almost unrecognizable to the blue-blooded boys who kicked around a heavy leather ball.
But it hasn’t changed completely.
Because in a small outpost on the Volga River, a gray-haired 71-year-old who walks with a cane, the man they call Maestro, is still educating young men to carry themselves with character—and win World Cup games.
His name is Óscar Tabárez. And in 12 years in charge of Uruguay’s national team, he has helped turn a country of 3.5 million into the best pound-for-pound team in world soccer by treating his players as if he were a housemaster at Eton or Harrow.
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How reformed he is is a matter of opinion. Having said that no system is perfect and despite his flaws as a human, Suarez is a good (i just can't bring myself to say great) player and they would have found a way to fit him in.Like every teacher, the Maestro knows that some lessons go in one ear and out the other. During his time in charge, he has overseen striker Luis Suárez commit a deliberate handball in the 2010 World Cup finals and bite an opponent at the 2014 World Cup, for which he was suspended from all soccer for four months. His team has also racked up eight red cards at tournaments, plus countless yellows, including a whopping 18 in six games at the 2011 Copa America, since he took over in 2006.
Still, Uruguay captain Diego Godin said Tabárez continues to tell players how disappointed he is with them, even when they are sent off while playing for their clubs. And Suárez credits the Maestro’s exhortations with turning him into a reformed character
I actually think even that would not have been that much of a compromise. It was reported for instance he has happily gone along with the room share, sharing his room with Cavani who he grew up, and played with as a kid.
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