Any one else feel the reasons England have lost their way now,is because of the lack of young blood being allowed to come through the ranks.
The top clubs want instant success so much,they haven't the time or paitence to let many young stars come through and the few we have got are not yet fully
skilled,apart from the exception of one or two.We keep changing the manager,when its the system itself that needs changing, years ago you were only allowed
upto 4 non english,now it appears to be the other way round.If it carries on,we'll be picking players from league 1 to make up a team.
It certainly doesn't seem to work that filling your team with exspensive imports, brings out the best in our players when they don't have enough of our players to start with, bring back the old league 1 days now that was English football at its exciting best.
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Who can forget 74 and 78 when we didn't even qualify.
There are problems and we do need to make changes but harking back to a mythical past when everything was OK won't help.
Look forward and give the current managers and players the thing you ask for: time.
But seriously, when it comes down to it, if you gave me the choice of Charlton winning the league with eleven foreigners or England doing well I'd take Charlton every time.
Also it's massively illegal to try and limit the number of players from the EU at a club anyway.
With all the money in the top flight surely we can produce some decent players. Just ask any of the top flight bar Man Utd, how many players in your team have come up from there youth team?
Teams like bayern have indeed had dry periods, but how strong is the German team? Now look at how many home grown players are in the German premier division compared to us.
Not knocking imports, just the quality of imports
This was the situation after the last World Cup, that the FA said would be addressed.
• Only 2,769 English coaches hold Uefa's B, A and Pro badges
• Spain has 23,995, Italy 29,420 and Germany 34,790
You also have to remember that Italy and Germany are simply bigger countries.
The following is a quote from the FA:
"In comparison to our European counterparts, we do not place the same degree of importance on the status of coaching in this country. This must change if we are going to progress".
The FA looked at the number of A Licence coaches in other European nations - France has 2,400, Germany has 5,500, Italy 1,298 and Spain has 12,720 A Licence coaches.
Why then aren't they becoming good enough? Amount of coaching time? Do more of our kids spend more time on their computers than outdoors compared to other countries? Are our kids not as dedicated etc?
I don't know, I haven't got or seen the data. I think changing to the smaller sided games for longer is a good idea and kids should be encouraged to express themselves & take risks - the win at all costs mentality that's voiced from parents & coaches needs to take a back seat for a bit until kids get older.
Need kids who are free from pressure who can try passes, tricks, dribbles, passing & moving etc, without the worry of being bellowed at.
Wasn't Lilleshall billed as being able to do all the things the new national academy is supposed to ? Michael Smith - did very well in the few games he had at Accrington (one in two goal ratio) but would Charlton have got promoted with him upfront ? Probably not.
Italy has a million or so less people, but in a slightly larger land mass, Germany has 20 million more people, Spain about 15 million fewer.
So it works out that
Germany has 1 coach per 2,357 population
Italy has 1 coach per 2,005
Spain has I coach per 1 coach per 1,997
England (and Wales) has 1 coach per 18,418
But you're right though.,,
1. More coaches qualified to a higher level (a point already excellently made by Floyd).
2. To lose the "hoof it" mentality. Football for youngsters should not be seen as win at all costs. It should be primarily about enjoying the game, secondarily about developing skills and only after those two about winning. Coaches need to understand this and parents need to be educated that bellowing "get stuck in" and this like is not helpful.
3. Better facilities. My boy's team (not that he's likely to be a professional, but I have high hopes for one of his friends) has recently had a few training sessions cancelled due to bad weather. Meanwhile the sports hall in our village remains firmly padlocked because the council cannot afford to employ any staff to keep it open. If the weather is that bad that they can't train outside, they should be indoors playing futsal (or similar).
4. To stop fannying around and get intermediate sized football organised across the board for 10-13 year olds. The step up from mini soccer to full sized soccer is just too big and means that teams become dependant on having one or two big lads who can thump a ball over the head of a keeper who hasn't got a chance of defending and 8' high goal.
5. To rip those bloody Playstations out of the wall and teach our kids to live in the real world rather than pixelland (not that I've personally dared to try this with mine).
We want NOW. A player has a poor game so he's " s*** get rid."
Hodgson was slammed for taking younger players instead of the same old same old. Forget giving them tournament experience we must win now.
The sad thing is nothing will change. We look at the coach stats but out clubs will still appoint a newly retired player with no badges and fans will say medals are more important than coaching qualifications.
The extra money from the Sky deal will go to the same mega rich clubs, not grass roots football.
The new academy rules allows the EPL clubs to take the best players earlier but kills off dozens of strong academies at league clubs. There is less incentive for both sets of clubs to develop kids as the little clubs will get peanuts for any decent prospect and the big clubs get who they want cheap either way.
It can be changed but it won't because we blame the manager, society (the Xbox arguement), the players etc etc but won't change the fundemental structure of football from age 5.
Keep on doing what you've always done and you get what you've always got.
Everyone talks about 'no expectations' yet when we go out on a penalty shootout to a decent Italian side, it's all about pointing the finger. Idiots.