Brooking, Coaching and England
England, as usual looked inferior in terms of basic technique. Brooking as usual blamed our youth systems and coaching.
Yet I find it hard to believe that the South Americans have the facilities in terms of youth coaches, quality of pitches, equipment etc that match those of the UK.
I think the difference is cultural and not unrelated to the weather. Though recently winters have been milder and pitches have got much better with technology. However our game is based on stamina and power. The hot weather countries, by necessity play more slowly, or at least stop-start and have time to develop skills.
When you see the foreign stars adapt to the pace of the EPL (which not all do - such as Forlan) do you watch a game and think Essien has better technique than Gerrard?
For some reason the English club style of football does not translate well to internationals.
Maybe the brief dominance of the champions league by the EPL has led to other Euro clubs adopting the faster pace game to compete, which may have done Italy and France no favours.
Is it still the case that no European country has won the world cup outside of Europe?
Posted By: Firstnews on June 29th 2010 at 11:56:52
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- Brooking, Coaching and England (Other Football) - Firstnews, Jun 29, 11:56:52
- You don't need hundreds of good coaches to have a good system (Other Football) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jun 29, 12:08:35
- Messi's the player he is cos he's allowed to express himself, and gets the free role (Other Football) - pants, Jun 29, 12:17:10
- Re: " ex players make good managers. They maybe don't want how it was done to them....." (Other Football) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jun 29, 12:23:15
- Just always remember that interview with Simon Charlton (Other Football) - camcan, Jun 29, 12:10:42
- I remember Charlton being a solid left back for years at top level, solid, & played loads (Other Football) - pants, Jun 29, 12:22:34
- Re: "when the kids first come in they just want to run around all over the pitch....." (Other Football) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jun 29, 12:16:02
- He really did (Other Football) - camcan, Jun 29, 12:32:07
- Messi's the player he is cos he's allowed to express himself, and gets the free role (Other Football) - pants, Jun 29, 12:17:10
- The organisation of the FA is the problem... (Other Football) - Fierce Panda, Jun 29, 12:01:19
- You don't need hundreds of good coaches to have a good system (Other Football) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jun 29, 12:08:35
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