Please don't let Ego get in the way...
Any high level competitor know, "not good enough" if proven in competition is not a negative comment, but an indicator/measure of the individual's station on his path to success. It tells me I must work harder to be attain or catch the wave/means of attain my chosen glory...If any athlete sees losing as a failure then they shouldn't bother compete.
What gets me is the characters who have the the ability to access, who is shithound, and who put down ah load, and who not good, without they themselves attempting to swim in that exact sea of turmoil.
Neither as player, coach, trainer,administrator or otherwise....
In my opinion, W Connection played well, the Chivas club is way better.
As an indicator of T&T level of football, as well as our National team members performance, it indicates, that coaching and selection, should be based not just athletic skill, but in addition mental(football) ability as well. I don't know for sure, but I feel the Chivas players did not just possess equal or better skill than OUR players, or even greater fitness 9they didn't run more or faster) but additional knowledge of positional awareness, technical strength and flow of the game. These are things that can be learned and developed. Yet, in todays game(and yesterdays game), emphasis has to be placed on a National scale devlopment, and not necessarily, on winning. Using myself as an eg., and later teams I have coached, I was a above avg. goalscorer, because I had above avg athletic ability, and although I was successful, my teams, were not always such.
I became a better footballer after a major injury, which served to reduce my pure athletic ability, and forced me to compete, by strengthning my mental aspects of the game, DURING practice and games. I scored less true, but my teams became stronger and eventually more successfull, which made me attain higher levels of success. Thus increase of Team fortitude, at the sacrifice of more individual flair.
The great players are the ones who has an understanding of maintaing both (individual & team success) at high levels. I did not say the highest recognized professionals...but the great ones..
Maradona, Pele, Zidane, and many, would not have achieved such greatness, if their teams always crash-out in early rounds....they would still be good, cause they could naturally do their thing, but we wouldn't be able to measure their greatness, against lesser opponents.
Yet this can be applied to all of T&T culture...Once we strived to be the best, through insult and injury, today, we JUST want to show we better than our neigbours...be it school, community, region, house, job, finance, party..."At least ah better than you"
In any society it isn't easy to stay focus, I away here for over 35 years, and it occurs in some cases here as well, yet, if we are to improve, we have to check and ascertain where we really are....and where we really want to be..
on football, if all we want to be is at the big party (WC), then the only people we might surpass is the ones we must to get there...
is only ah thought eh...I not stating ah fact....if ah wrong, please help meh with some guidance still.