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National Football Center - Will It Help?

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evilwebby

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First I've heard about this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19872455

Do you think it will improve our national side?

For me, I am dubious. For until we can cure our addiction to importing foreign players, the performance of the national team will reflect the opportunities available to homegrown players.
Also, as a player, if your club team is made up of 70% overseas players, any time you suddenly thrown into a situation with all English players you suddenly have a collective inferiority complex.
 

I don't think it's an addiction to foreign players, just that a foreign player will usually be cheaper than an English player of similar skill levels.
For me the biggest issue holding England back is the mentality. Too many people are stuck in the 442 kick and rush mindset and still don't see that other countries have progressed far far beyond this. The only reason England compete is because of the size of the country, with 50M people and football as the national sport, there is a fair chance that they are going to be able to put out a decent team.
I dread the day when they finally realise that technical ability is more important than physical ability, for they will no doubt win the world cup soon after
 
I hope so but at least it shows intent by the FA to finally try and build something from the bottom up instead of the blinkered top 4 (Sky 4) in the Prem or nothing
 

Our players will only ever be as good as the people who coach them. While we've got managers like Allardyce, Pulis and the like in our top division we'll continue to struggle. Also a team managed by Woy will never, ever do anything better than a Greece 2004.
 

evilwebby said:
First I've heard about this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19872455

Do you think it will improve our national side?

For me, I am dubious. For until we can cure our addiction to importing foreign players, the performance of the national team will reflect the opportunities available to homegrown players.
Also, as a player, if your club team is made up of 70% overseas players, any time you suddenly thrown into a situation with all English players you suddenly have a collective inferiority complex.
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Teams wouldn't have to rely on foreign players if we had a better youth system. That's the point.
 
Not really, things won't change greatly whilst blokes with no real ability or football skills are coaching young lads across the country & it all being about winning some poxy local league, rather than any emphasis on actually developing the lads skills.

For the centre to make a real difference, they'd have to train up hundreds of county coaches to a level that they could then go back to their local areas & set up their own coaching courses that all youth coaches had to attend & was funded by the bloated PL coffers.
 

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