Our aim is to reach the semi's of Euro 2020 and win Qatar 2022!
Seriously, what is this guy on? The way we're going a better target would be to qualify for Qatar 2022!
Sort out our grass roots football, build from the bottom up, employ more professional coaches to teach our kids and then we can start worrying about winning world cups.
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Just try to sort out training more coaches and the structure of kid's football.
To win the 2022 World Cup seems a bit fanciful though.
The bottom line is that British clubs aren't buying foreign players because their worse or more expensive! Improving technique and levels of fitness and a bit of luck in the natural talent stakes are the significant factors. The FAs north and south of the border have failed to make those improvements, and concentrated on meaningless soundbites.
To say it's because of the number of non English players playing is lazy IMO.
They can't do that because it's restraint of trade and illegal these days.
Any scheme that tries to increase the standard of English football simply by forcing English clubs to play players that aren't good enough just because they are English is doomed to failure.
The only way to succeed is to make the players coming through so good they can't be ignored. And the only way to do that is by improving the standard of everyone so significantly that the top few are by their nature, the best of the best. And the only way of doing that is by increasing the standard of and exposure to coaching that every kid gets.
Number of coaches holding the following badges: Uefa's A and B Pro badges
England 2,769
Spain 23,995
Italy 29,420
Germany 34,970
France 17,588
That is the following ratio of active players:
Spain 1:17
Italy 1:48
France 1:96
Germany 1:150
Greece 1:135
England 1:812
What hope have we got?!
A lot of hope, or more hope than you think. I mentioned in the article I wrote for the Trust on academies that we are a generation behind most European teams in terms of coaching the coaches and getting the basic infrastructure right. But the academy system is now up and running and the FA etc is now taking the issue of increasing the number of coaches with UEFA A, B and Pro badges seriously - and that includes Chris Powell.
What really has to change is the amateur attitude that pervades British sport that prefers jobs for the boys and enthusiastic but clueless volunteers over professionally qualified coaches. If we switch sports to cricket the ECB ploughs the profits from the TV contracts back into the sport - that means schools of excellence, qualified coaches, improved injury treatment, specialist coaches, better facilities etc. The result is that the English cricket team after lagging behind Australia for many years are now regularly beating them. Similarly with cycling - a generation back the idea that Britain could produce a Tour de France winner would be a joke, we've had two on the trot and dozens of Olympic medals on the track plus a world champion, all are graduates of the Dave Brailsford led cycling academy. Success won't happen overnight with the academy system in football but admitting that there is a problem and getting the infrastructure in place are the first steps and if cricket, cycling and other sports with much less money can get it right, so can football.
Who knows if we will win the WC or not in 2022, being nine years away I doubt that anyone currently in the England squad will still be playing then, but we should see graduates of the FL and Prem academies who are 10/11/12 years old now getting into the England team by then.
You've obviously got the figures to hand - how many active English players would we have to convert to A & B coaches to turn the ratio to, say, 1:150 ?
the most important thing for GD to ensure is that just because players get picked for the first team, if they are still young enough to play in u21's then they should be forced to play for them in major tournaments and if mgrs like wenger object punish the mgr and the club and don't allow the national mgr to pick them for friendlies that clash with the major u21 or u20 tournament
you should out of the 25 man squad have 11 players that are of the nation where the league is played, and the rest made of transfers from anywhere they want however there should be a minimum of 3 players that is named on any given match day squad that come through their development squads and in every match day squad there should be 5 players of whom are from the nation in which the league is played
this should be led by FIFA and UEFA and endorsed by every single fa in those governing bodies
Youth development is where things need to improve. From age 5-18.
They listened to him, and did exactly what he said. The Germans, that is...
if you manage the amount needed in the first team then teams are forced to improved youth development and coaching
the aim is that the world cups and the European championships are improved and that the leagues stay competitive at the minute the best football competition in this country is the football league not the prem, the prem is where the cash is the marketing makes you believe its the best in the world, but it is not its not competitive in its essence look at the championship last season
from top to bottom competitive ,
I want us to reach the prem but mainly because the season leading to the promotion would be fantastic
That conflicts with EU law for a start, but why? If a player qualifies by residency or because he is born here while his parents/grandparents weren't then that's good enough for me. If he move to this country at say 5 years of age he would have gone through an academy paid for by the FA and then having produced a quality footballer we'd be saying to the Nigerian FA or wherever he moved from "here you go have the star striker that we've trained up and produced for you, please take good care of him...and remember us when he wins the WC for you".
what EU law does it conflict, surely there is no EU law that decides what Football associations can use to determine eligibility to play for the national football team not a dig a genuine question
This would come under prohibitions against discrimination (Article 19 TFEU) and unequal treatment contained in the Treaties. Essentially if someone qualifies by residency to be British they should also qualify to play for the national team as long as the requirements of the FA have been met. This could mean for example that the English FA won't recognise someone as being qualified if they have played competitive football for another nation within a certain time frame and that is set in turn I think by UEFA. So a person not born in England and who's parents/grandparents were also not British could claim that it was discriminatory if they were barred from being selected for England if they fulfilled all other criteria.
The only way for England to be successful is a far fairer distribution of the cash. English players are overpriced, as lower league clubs see this as the only way of getting the cash. Managers last an average of 2 years, they aren't interesting in developing players, they need results now. Again this is down to the money, and the pressure it creates.
The new academy rules ensure that the top clubs will hover up all and any promising youngsters. They may get good coaching, but they won't play enough football when it matters, the vast majority will be dropped before they've even had a chance to enjoy they game and will be lost. They won't be able to go back to playing with their mates on a weekend, they never had that, it was denied them as soon as they showed any talent.
We are heading for a time very soon where we have a huge number of disillusioned young men who given a less callous system could have developed into great players, but they were too short at 12, or hadn't developed sufficiently at 15, but at 21 they might have been world class. We are also creating a generation of players who have played no games for their club and if are lucky might have played a handful of games on loan by the time they're 21/22. They should be plying their trade in the lower leagues, learning their trade, but they're sitting in the reserves at big clubs never playing proper games and therefore stagnating and eventually being lost to the game.
If you live in England long enough to gain nationality, you should be able to play for England.