I am not sure about a 20 year plan per se for a football team. No sense devising a "plan" for the 2030 wold cup team... kind of nutty. We NEED a plan for 2014 but what we need for 2030 is a vision, very different things.
I don’t see where I proposed a 20 year plan for a football team, show me!
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The industry can be built up from age-group category to ‘real pro’ with the leader getting the most practical 10, 15 and 20 year plans in place and using his bully pulpit to push it through.
We have sponsors who come forward and put up every WCQ Campaign. Here is a great opportunity, one of many, to fuse the WCQ campaign with the 10-20 year plans by having any sponsor taking a major role in the WCQC have to commit to also participating in the 10 or 20 plan. The journey of a 1000 miles begins with a single step.
It makes sense to look at what we have and separate things that are different into different categories. One way to look at what we have is that we have national football teams and we have local football development. They are really different things even though there may be dependencies and synergism the essence of those 2 things are different and in our case it is best thought of as being different. It is possible to have, for example, a senior team comprising entirely of foreign based players (which is not too far fetched since we are very close to that scenario right now). National teams are simply the collection of eligible players regardless of where they are based. One may argue that it is not an ideal situation to be in or that it is ideal to have the local league as the sole source for national team but that is unrealistic given the state of local football and economic realities. Our top local players will be recruited to foreign based leagues absent adequate alternatives. What is disappointing is when good prospects are recruited away by bush leagues and get ruxified as they are used then discarded without any development. We should be able to provide better options.
Bush league recruiting from bush league no sah that don’t make any sense. I am with you on that. Bring our bush league up to a respectable level and Walla, we have priced good prospects way above the reach of bush leagues
Local football development is the advancing of the level of play in local school and club football. It is well and often argued that we have relatively decent primary and secondary football and that what we lack is tertiary football development. I agree with that analysis and have pushed that argument for almost 10 years on this site. Does this means that there is no room for improvement? Hardly. In fact I think one thing we should focus on is advancing the level of high school football play by mandating certification of coaches and having teams play more international games at that level. As crazy as it may sound, this is really the best prospect for advancing local football right now, to advance secondary school football. I go to penn relays every year and get to see first hand the level of recruitment that occurs there and amount of opportunities granted to our track athletes to tertiary education and development while our football athletes languish and stunted in poor unprofressional environments post high school.
Heh nothing wrong in sounding the alarm fi the 11th year. And I would add if I can scribble pon yuh proposal - Even the primary/elementary level must have a good structure to ensure first form high schoolers are not football dunces. Also, as the clubs develop they pull in the youngsters into their youth programs
Local football development is also, obviously, about professionalizing our football leagues but this has challenges on many levels. For one, fan support has been meager at best in local football and it takes money to professionalize a league. The challenges for a professional league is primarily a business challenge but the business case appears weak. I guess the government could take it over but that would just be a money sink and the last thing the Jamaican government needs right now is another way of bleeding money. The government can surely help with advancing high school though since that should fall under education but without the ability to adequately provide and fund a professional league we are stuck with a bush league farm with an occasional gem that makes it to the big leagues. Put a 20 year plan on that and you are still stuck with a bush league farm.
Or put a reasonable tax write off on some of the capital resources the clubs need to advance their plans.
Gov’t can underwrite preferred lending terms with the banks for the clubs and you are much closer to realizing a pro league.
Once good ball a roll regularly, security and safety is not an issue and the facilities are adequate the fans will come.
I had propose, a while back, to advance professional Caribbean football by creating carifootball super league. I still think that has merits, it also has it's challenges but the merits and potential benefits are huge and not just to football. In 20 years a carifootball super league could produce world beaters instead of the “might make it to the hex” that we get right now.
Well how about monetizing it and show B&W, Burrell and Warner what is in it for them and maybe, just maybe, if they see the lucre they can make - you have your Super Dooper CariBall League
The point I am making is that the senior national team is just that, the senior national team and should be treated as such. The goal of the national senior team is to make it to the word cup every 4 years. Local football development is something else, don't conflate and confuse the two.
But you just said
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“Local football development is the advancing of the level of play in local school and club football” and “National teams are simply the collection of eligible players regardless of where they are based”
As it is and to be continued the makeup of the senior team will continue to reflect the level of local football development since every WCQ campaign has pulled and will continue to pull players from the local bush league.
One WC appearance every 20 years not bad we may be on to something here hmmmm
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He will be held fully accountable for what occurs on the field.
But 75% of our problems are administrative and managerial.
Questions to be answered by the BFF:
1. Why do we only have a roster of 20 players when 23 are allowed? 2. Do we really expect players who are not match-fit to perform? 3. Can team chemistry be build in less than one-week? 4. When will we starting scouting our opponents in advance?
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Tappa,
You were one of the best midfield maestros to wear the national team jersey, know it is time for you to mentor the next generation. Tappa's main assignment for his coaching stint, find five(5)young central creative midfielders and develop and mold them into international footballers. It does not matter if where they live or play but they must be found.
I think the next step is for Tappa to get fully licensed and professionally trained as a coach. Give him the U20's to prove himself and work with that until he is ready to command the national team. His inexperience and inability to properly motivate the team caused their demise.
We gave him BIG props when he won those 3 games at home, now he has to feel the same heat when he loses. Can't have it both ways! You can't say it's not his fault when we lose, but give him great accolades when we win.
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So, should Tappa be held to the same standard that we held Barnes? Or was this a simple problem of "not finishing"?
why do our players "finish" for their clubs but not for the reggaeboyz? Hhehehe... answer? when you play ketchi shoobi yuh on yuh own.
ddread have u gone crazy!! Tappa cannot be blamed!! Its the players, they are the ones on the field!! How can our maestro be blamed. Thats Ludicrus!! I am calling up by ward 21
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