grandad wrote:
gusmac wrote:
grandad wrote:
That simply isn't true. Junior football is getting bigger every year and the football league and premiership academies are taking in thousands of the best every year. unfortunately out of the thousands there are very few who will be good enough to make it. In my time as a referee I officiated at many academy games and out of all the players that I saw only 1 ever made it. That was Jermaine Pennant and he was head and shoulders above the rest.
That'll be why England are such a class act then
I don't think it is possible to make a player great. You can make a good player a better player but to be a great player requires something extra special. TALENT! You simply can't teach talent.
Correct. Talent needs to be discovered, then encouraged.
When we were kids, we played all the time - nobody organised it, they didn't have to - just jackets for goalposts and the most popular kid was the one who had a ball. Talent shone through and the best ended up playing for their schools etc.
Now the future's greats are sitting around playing computer games, unaware that they even have a talent.
Bottom line is fewer and fewer kids are playing less and less football. The fact that more are taking part in organised football is irrelevent if the talented ones never take up the game in the first place.
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