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« on: June 09, 2005, 11:28:43 AM »
There is no need for a football academy in t&t because there are just too many people for one body of people to teach. What is the best option for the improvement of players is to have a competent director and consistent develoment programme for the coaches under the ttff or whatever association it is where they always will be taught and have the different clubs to teach out of the communities. It's a total collaborated effort by all coaches and clubs under the TTFF umbrella . From what I have been reading it seems this is taking place . There seems to be constant up grading and clubs from the leagues all are required to have a junior development programme in the budget. The fifa centre of excellence is already there, the infrastructure is already there and the programmes are in place. If everything goes right in 6 to 12 years we will be having a fairly sound base of players with good technique that can be passed on to the national team. There is a lot of positive things taking place in the football island its jus a matter of time, we got to be patient . We have always been blessed with talent so hopefully we will get the chance to see this talent really manifest with better trained players. So hold tight people we on course it's jus if people like Jack Warner will be around to pump money into the sport for travelling to games to cover every bit of expense that will be incurred by our teams. And this is the biggest hurdle when we want to have a match fit team.Without money we will go no where cause that is your means of getting the necessities. We could have the best programmes in place but money is what will take you the extra mile after everything else is put in place. Cause who will pay for the flight, hotel, food, water, coach, physiotherapist, pchyscologist. The professional league will bring a lot of extra help to the system. No need to spend all that unnecessary money on an academy. They could let the clubs take care of this and justy make sure to educate the coaches.