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The last few years modern football has developed dramatically as far as its determinants are concerned, such as talent, technical skills, tactics, physical strength, right nutrition and inner stability.
More and more often we see football games where:
- There is a constant motion during the whole game
- The players decisively exercise pressure in every phase
- The tactical structures of the teams have changed, as a result of which teams
- Need to make more individual and team choices concerning technique, tactics and physical strength.
In order to be able to cope with the challenges of the games, the players should be subjected to an insistent, systematic and long lasting training, starting at a young age. This is the most decisive period for the formation of complete football players. Training should be based on rules about the body as well as the mind, if we want to develop all kinds of skills (mental, physical and technical) and make them more efficient in the game. Under no circumstances should training be regarded as an easy job. It is not easy at all to train correctly, so as to make a body function better and more efficiently. Any excessive strain imposed can result in possibly irrecoverable damages to the human machinery.Nowadays, however, several sciences (psychology, biology, pedagogic, medicine, ergo physiology, etc.) offer, more than ever before, their concrete findings to football, so as to achieve the goals of training. Subsequently, today’s football programs should not be empirical but composed based upon scientific rules and research. It is a well known fact that in the more developed countries in the field of football, this scientific training is led by specialized scientists, with a long-existing infrastructure at their disposal (well organized football schools, research on football and a wide bibliography). Unfortunately, in a lot of countries training is not what it should be.
Nor can we say that there is any serious infrastructure. In a lot of countries football develops rather accidentally and at random. Everybody is aware of the situation and makes diagnoses, but nobody commences a therapy. A lot of coaches make the mistake to exercise the profession just to gain a lot of money. Of course, there are also coaches who distinguish themselves through their good and serious work and who find a good training job based on their MERIT, but this is a small minority. The choice of coaches should be based on meritocratic criteria for the good of football and not through circles of acquaintances.
I matter I would like to stress is the matter of TALENT:
There are talents in every country on earth. The big questions is:
- Does the evaluation of new talents happen in a correct way of selection?
- Do the people in charge of training make the best out of young talents, whose dream is also to become great and famous football players?
- Is the person, to whom other people entrusted the responsible job of the coach, a coach who will also work hard to pass on all the basic elements of football to these young talents?
- Or is he a coach who will only work so as to just justify the money he receives for a years work?
Talent is to possess a special gift at a higher level than others. A talented football player has skills such as perfect control of the ball, transmission, dribble, simulation etc., which are necessary in high performance football. Often these young talents qualities are not fully developed, in other words the natural talent does not come out on its own. It first needs to be DISCOVERED and then to be UTILIZED. While discovering talents is a matter of mass athletic exercise, the utilization of a talent is a matter of methodical, insistent and long-lasting training, in combination with other performance factors.
Indeed, sheer talent does not guarantee good performance. This is only achieved when talent is combined with physical training, training of technical skills and tactics and right nutrition. To sum up, if a team wishes for itself a bright future, if it wants to be distinguished for its nice and qualitative football, its durable performance, but also wants to stand out and above all, to be able to compete with football teams of more developed countries, then it should first be able to track down young promising football talents and thereupon train them in a scientific, methodical, consistent and durable way, in order to prepare them for success with a clear target and objective, but also so as to achieve the above mentioned results. To realize this one needs PATIENCE and PERSISTENCE, one needs QUALIFIED COACHES, who must have thorough knowledge of physical training, technical skills, tactics, anatomy, physiology, psychology, pedagogic, sociology, teaching experience, kinesiology, training sessions etc. and who naturally love football genuinely.
What I also want to point out, since I used to be a professional football player myself, is that there is a big difference between being a football player and being a football coach. Furthermore, I believe that like you have natural talented football players there are also such talented coaches.
A matter I would also like to mention, because I consider it to be of big importance, is the NUTRITION of football players. Out of sincere respect, I am making an exception for some days of the year, during which people fast, according to their belief and religion.
The great strain, both during training and during the games, calls for a specific and healthy nutrition. The body of a football player needs energy, which it gets from food with great nutritious value, such as carbohydrates, fats, albumens, salts etc. The nutrition should be determined, both qualitatively as quantitatively, according to the needs of the training session and the special needs of the game. This means that the player is not to eat without control, but should regulate his nutrition as far as the calories intake, the food quality and the time of intake are concerned. The coach-Trainer plays an important role as far as the players nutrition is concerned, since he has to inform, advise and control the players. Hence, correct nutrition, in combination with training, constitutes an important and decisive factor for performance.
DEAR SIR,
From what I have seen and heard, I have noticed that indeed in Asia and overall because of the advanced economy in Japan, Korea, a good job has been done up to this point by certain individuals involved in sports, as far as their advancement in football is concerned. On the other hand however, I’ve seen many countries, especially countries that are not economically well off, that need our help, especially that of coaches and trainers.
From the few days that I spent in Nepal (2002),and from the few trips that I took at that time to countries whose football is not well known, I noticed that there were many young, talented people that have a true need and want to be trained and participate in football, with the dream of course to one day become great football players.
Unfortunately though, in my opinion, as time passes these young talents disappear due to the fact that necessary and organized training does not take place and thus the football in these countries continues to remain in a low level.
To your COUNTRY you have very Good Players, BUT you MUST make SOMETHINK for these Players!!
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We really get pretty taken aback when a stranger comes forth and explains our position as if he himself is another one to feel like us. SoccerAgeNepal.com.np hacked into same bewilderment when a never-talked - to European football expert abruptly made a bid to discuss our football with it .That gentleman is Dokas Dennis who introduces himself as: