So Wim is homing in on the footballer here and how our culture is engrained in them.
I still say de man fleckin right.
Allyuh never watch a PFL or West Indies practice or warm up?
In fact ah going beyond that. Allyuh never sweat abroad and see de level of intensity and then come home and de whole game just seem ultra slow??
But is it really the footballers fault? I mean.. Lets say i growing up in Trinidad and decide football is my career path. Who really providing me with de infrastructure, de regime, de facilities, de overall environment to foster de kinda professionalism that is on par with the international game? Do you know how exceptional i have to be to get to and stay at that level?
Furthermore, lets be honest, footballers by and large ain't de brightest bulbs in de box (thats worldwide not just in trini).. And given that our local education system does do much in terms of engendering those without the academic leaning, (those who's calling is vocation and sport etc) with an environment to foster true professionalism in non-traditional fields.... Can we really blame them??
In an environment where sport is not well supported, and all the factors to build true professionals is absent it only follows that they won't subscribe to discipline level of de average 9 to 5 joe who beating out academics from since when and hence get to understand the importance of a professional lifestyle to make ends meet...
So live with the fact they will be doing more liming, feteing, brushing, drinking, eating (under coconut trees
) than said average joe in Trinidad...
Ah mean of fleck is footballers we talking bout u know!
But unless as a footballer in T&T, you are head and shoulders above the class in terms of talent, that attitude not going to cut it to enable you to match up to the international game.
I eh no big Wim fan but he right on this count.
Its cultural and until things change here, dey absolutely hadda go outside to get somewhere.
PS: Allyuh stink! how nobody eh yet talk about de $7000 outta he non-scheduled deposit salary he pelt out for visas?