One conversation I've had with another 442 member off forum, is why FFA in particular continues to ignore the recruitment of continental European coaches to join the FFA and HAL ranks.

In the HAL we have had continental Euorpeans, JVS, Coolen and Gombau coaching senior teams. Also, I think JVS and Berger have had a role in the Technical Development at Heart and Roar.

HAL clubs have recruited Poms Steve McMahon, Richard Money, Paul Nevin, Terry Butcher and Irish Jim Magilton for roles coaching senior teams.

Scots, former HAL coaches Ian Ferguson and Lawrie McKinna, have had teams playing more like archetypal British clubs, but I'm not sure of their training, whether it more was done more in the old country or here?

At this stage I'll leave out British Mike Mulvey, Kenny Lowe, Ernie Merrick and Darren Davies, because they have undergone a lot of coach education in Australia.



Peter de Roo and Jan Versleijen from Holland have had roles in FFA. Yet Neil Orr, Dean May, Kenny Lowe, Spencer Prior, Sean Douglas and Paul Lonton are just a few, there may be many more, from the Anglo countries who have been recruited by FFA.

Dutch and Spanish coaches have been inculcated in the football methodology we want to impart to our players for some time. They are often very experienced. Yet there are still many foreigners recruited in FFA ranks from New Zealand, England and Scotland. Any coaches of these countries have only recently acquired the type of methodology that FFA wants to impart to developing players in Australia.

Other than speaking English, which the Dutch are usually very proficient at, we cannot see why so few Dutch, Spanish and French coaches have been recruited by FFA? Germany has not been imparting this type of methodology for as long as the other three European nations at this point in time.

Surely the coaches from the continental European countries, that our FFA NC is based on, will have a lot more practical experience at delivering similar content?






Edited by Decentric: 14/1/2014 03:26:07 PM