By Decentric - 20 Jun 2014 9:55 AM
England should be my second team. Nearly all my extended family live in England and I've spent 10 years living there.
However, England, always underperforms in international football.
Why?
Because the English Football Association, ethnocentrically refuses to adopt practices from Europe. Yet English clubs import coaching continental European expertise and players.
In the past few years, English triallists from this state have sent youth training programs from League One and Two clubs. They are just a joke!
When will the penny drop in England?
When will the FA stop thinking football ends at the English Channel?
When will the English media stop blaming individual players and the national team coach for their constant lack of success and underperformance? England has close to the best league in the world, the EPL, but few of English players are key players in the the big clubs, or, if they are, they are overly reliant on foreign players to make them perform.
English coaches are rarely instated as coaches at senior or youth level in EPL clubs. Why? Poor coach education through the FA.
Why can't the FA observe the improvement of some football nation like us, Japan, Korea, Belgium, and the fantastic continued success of a little country, Uruguay, and find out why?
For all those Eurosnobs that follow English teams below the English big five clubs, and rubbish Aussie teams, the rest of English football is almost irrelevant in a global context.
Edited by Decentric: 20/6/2014 09:58:36 AM
Edited by Decentric: 20/6/2014 09:59:00 AM
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By libertarian - 22 Jun 2014 6:50 PM
Shouldn't English fans be happy? They've been waiting years to perform like Spain....
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