Baygo Boy
Re: Thread for the T&T v St Vincent U-20 game.
« Reply #91 on: Today at 03:07:11 AM »
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SUPA and others who continuously blaming local coaches every time we lose, answer this - What is the responsibility of the players? All yuh who ever play this game tell meh if ah wrong - on the field of play allyuh would agree that things happen fast, and no one not even the best coaches could know what de next play go be. Players have to be able to think on the spur of the moment - something no coach can teach. We have to stop putting unnecessary blame.
Williams had this team for only a few weeks - every expert know that in order to truly evaluate yuh team yuh have to see them play for 3 -5 matches. The idea that because we have the better players we should win everytime is borderline ignorant.
What ah hearing is give we local players a shot, but not we local coaches - that idea doesn't make sense to me, and ah don't know why it making sense to all yuh.
If we want to talk about we football progressing - we have no choice but to include we local coaches at every level of the game. The only thing foreign coaches have on our locals is experience. We willing to send we players abroad for experience (clubs, colleges etc), but not we coaches. What is wrong with getting local coaches foreign experience by getting into foreign clubs as a junior member of a coaching staff? But no, we seem to think that giving them access to coaching seminars is all that is necessary. Ah want all yuh nay-sayers to research how many EPL/Championship coaches have big time licenses - and at what time in their coaching careers did they get them - we know Keano doh have. What these coaches have is playing experience at the top level - it's that fact that allows them to be hired, not the license, or a seminar. However, I am not here to put down the significance of continuing education in football. Ah know ah ranting
What we need to do is offer either Latas, Dwight, Stern or Shaka Wim type salary to return home to coach. Wim probably making more paper than each ah dem.
Another thing - It is clear that ST.Kitts, DR and other so-called smaller countries have talented players - maybe not as talented as T&T players. But we have to understand that those countries have their players training together all the time, whereas our players are not - a number of our U-20 players are members of pro league teams, and cannot train together - a problem for any coach - so it stands to reason that we are going to continue to have a difficult time with those teams. Stop blaming we locals unnecessarily - pay attention to the big picture.