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The work of a football player is training and learning about tactics as well as the 90/180 minutes they spend on a pitch each week. They get paid to take part in training regimes as well as to play.
FIFA endorses plan to limit foreign players in clubs
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The work of a football player is training and learning about tactics as well as the 90/180 minutes they spend on a pitch each week. They get paid to take part in training regimes as well as to play.
Phenotypic Dai
The girdle of Venus
Blatter's an arsewound. He's been told from the start that this sort of thing isn't going to work.
Remember when he said women should wear tight shorts to improve their chances of better sponsorship? The bloke is the Prince Philip of the football world.
Problem is people aren't looking at the root, which is why English players aren't technically good enough to play tournament-winning football. Instead they just want to have a greater number of mediocre English players in the Prem, which won't really help anything.
We need to look at kids when they are 8 and start teaching them real football. We're too stick in the past and the fact that we 'invented' the game.
That ideas OK in principle, but even at academy level the big clubs have an enormous amount of power and can entice players away from other clubs without too much difficulty
Phenotypic Dai
The girdle of Venus
To be fair, that's been the mantra since I were a wee sexy Taff way back in the early 80's. We've all watched the videos of Brazil from 1970 world cup and the 'Total Football' of the Dutch, and it's got the home nations nowhere.
I blame the fucking rubbish facilities in this country compared to places like France and Germany.
It's all broken glass and dogshit.
Agreed on that RD and you can also say that the coaching and development structures of youth level & potential coaches at various levels of the game.
If my memory serves me correctly UEFA enforce player quotas in the early 90's for the European club competions - Silva is right on that. I remember the likes of Liverpool, Arsenal & of course Man U not progressing because of the fact that e.g. Ryan Giggs and Dennis Irwin weren't allowed to play in vital games. In otherwords the three foreigner rule which rightly & eventually got scrapped a few years later.
To me ol duffer Blatter seems to have forgotten last weeks European Cup final in Moscow that United had six English born players in the starting line up. And of course Chelsea and 4 English born players in the match.
I'm being quite cynical to suggest that the reason why Blatter, if gets his way - (a big, big if because he'll face major opposition from the top European clubs on this controversial issue) is beacuse he doesn't like the English teams being quite dominant in the European Cup in the last 4-5 years.
Phenotypic Dai
The girdle of Venus
Of course you are correct here. Man Utd got famously stuffed 4-0 at the Nou camp way back in '94. Mind you, what good did it do anyone? Spain have won the sum of fuck all in international competition.
My lads involved with the academies at 2 Championship level clubs, and whilst not quite the standard that kids at Ajax or Bayern can expect, they're well-above the broken glass & dogshit level, you'll be pleased to realise.
The problem that exists with UK teams is that the mens senior side always comes first. Not such a prolem if it Man u or Arsenal, but should the mens side get relegated, the first thing thatclubs tend to do is ditch or reduce the academies, womens and disability set-ups when really the financial saving should be made reducing the wage bills of (in the main) overpaid male players who haven't performed.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
This has nothing to do with who can play where and everything to do with cash.
As I have pointed out in the past, quality English players will get into quality teams. There have been many notable examples of that. The higher up the league you go the more multi-cultural you get because finding world class players is both difficult and costly.
There are only a limited number of world class or top rated players. You can't make them, they are just gifted. The FA are the guardians of grass roots football, but no matter how much they put in to the grass roots its not going to be churning out world class players. People like say Gascoine are exceptionally rare.
As I have pointed out in the past, quality English players will get into quality teams. There have been many notable examples of that. The higher up the league you go the more multi-cultural you get because finding world class players is both difficult and costly.
There are only a limited number of world class or top rated players. You can't make them, they are just gifted. The FA are the guardians of grass roots football, but no matter how much they put in to the grass roots its not going to be churning out world class players. People like say Gascoine are exceptionally rare.
Has Blatter ever indicated his view on the Welsh-England situation. Are the likes of Giggs, Bellamy, Bale, etc, "foreign"? Likewise, are Cardiff, Swansea, etc, players from England "foreign"? It goes further, in that no English player in the Premier League is playing in a league competition run by their national FA. How would it work for AS Monaco, who technically don't play in France? Finally, how would it work for players born in what were the USSR, East and West Germany, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, prior to the formation of the current borders?
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