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FFA Tech Director Han Berger had a chat with me last night about the new technical development plan
put out or about to be by the FFA.
First thing that struck me is that elite sports for kids is so serious these days, and I guess
Aussie football juniors are about to get a rude awakening! Maybe it's already happening in other.
Two streams: Talented and Community; but who are the FFA talking to in Canberra?
I went along to the FFA Tech Director Han Berger's introduction to the National Curriculum.
There are two streams; the Community stream and Talented Development stream.
One for the community players which I reckon judging by the standards laid out in the curriculum
for training etc from age 8-19 covers almost 98% of Canberra male players are community.
Gary van Egmond has already had to take a Public Service funded job and he's only been in Canberra
a week.
The FFA has seemingly backed down on their Under 17 AIS/FFA Funded job....so now it's just an AIS
position. A Public Servant!
And that means he must be a target for the Canberra A-League team.
The AIS have been playing the local Premier League teams recently.br /br /With oldest AIS player
now born in 1992, that makes the oldest player just 17.br /br /They've already beaten Canberra FC,
ANU and O'Connor Knights. Belconnen did beat them but the AIS had a player sent-off in the 15th
minute so maybe that influenced the result.
No AIS creative player since Zelic!!!
Aussie media have been whinging for months about the Socceroos style of play...and I'm from the
school that it's not all about the Coach.
If you don't have the tools it's hard to paint a picture.
But, until recently, our so-called best of the best came through the AIS, and therefore it's worth
noting who is our most creative player to come through such an organisation.
Training once a week is enough for anyteam, particularly a girls team.
Parents don't want to commit more than once a week to sport?
Right, no wrong!
Had a great post from Mr A. Nonymous...so thought I'd give it it's own heading...
We have many thousands of young swimmers in Australia doing a minimum of five training
sessions a week between 1 - 2 hours per session.
To be honest I am stunned by this turn of events for Gary Van Egmond. The FFA have sacked him from
the AIS because they claim he said he had no contract with Newcastle when he did. The story is here
and Mike covers it here.
As Newcastle Con Constantine says, his beef is with the FFA not Gary.
Well this has really got the locals talking. And thank god for the Nearpost; always got a solution
and right now that's just what we need.
And in blogland solutions are easy.
Capital Football has put on hold, maybe even scrapped, their plans for a change from the less than
equitable and limited current Academy structure to the proposed and advertised FFA facilitated
Talent Id program.
You have to love the world we live in today. Everyone is to blame but ourselves! So it comes as no
surprise that some media commentators are quick to lay the van Egmond fiasco at the FFA's doorstep
rather than the individual responsible.
In his latest blog, Jesse Fink points the finger at FFA and a lack of due diligence on their behalf
as the root cause for the problems that Gary van Egmond now finds himself in.
Local show Download
The closing program is given to a lengthy "fireside chat" with John Mitchell, Coach and technical
director of the ANU Premier League club, the U20 Elite program, which broke new ground in the
Capital Football Premier League in the 2009 season.
