This is still part of development where you get to test the progress of your programme. The post test evaluation would inform the way forward. Put in context are we expecting more than we're investing? Are they ahead of where the programme should be as implemented? Those answers and more would be forthcoming.
I always want us to succeed, but the result is not the end of the world. It however affect the opportunities for collective progress as a group since the plan is always - get the result to progress rather than progressing to get the results.
The part bolded…is brilliantly and succinctly put. We CONSTANTLY underinvest and overexpect. This underperformance is systemic, and symptomatic of tired old men, devoid of the ideas, and appetite for risk necessary to succeed in modern football, and who lack the energy and passion to get up to scratch.
However to place responsibility on them to evaluate the way forward is to continue placing trust in the same people who have failed us year after year, after year. Only once have the TTFF ever been consistently successful, and they have now abandoned the very principles that led to that success.
Fools will blame the coach and players. IMO Cooper is a smart coach. He was begging for games specifically against the US and Costa Rica as far back as July 2012. These games only happened a month before this tournament. Regardless of who he blank or not, I believe he prepared this team as well as anyone with the limited resources he had. And his assistant coach Leonson Lewis is no slouch either. Just look at his record with W-Connection youth teams!
To address the’ cultural’ issue…a lot of that is only organizational issues. The TTFF, operates in a competitive international arena. However the federation is also an umbrella organization for regional and sub-regional associations that do not necessarily operate in that context. Do the Eastern or Southern Football Associations see themselves as just competing against each other, or also as fierce competitors against their counterparts in El Salvador, Panama or Germany? Could organizational/structural changes in the local game translate into a better product?
To dig into the real cultural issues that impact our performance relative to our competitors, the TTFF would do well to submit to a thorough self-examination through platforms like Hofestede’s Cultural Dimensions. That kind of analysis will tell the TTFF what they
think they are trying to accomplish, what they are
actually doing, clarify their goals, and help find the best way for them to get there. But the old men running football already know everything and will never allow that to happen.
