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Capital Football have a clear mission to spread the game, the joy of the game.
So when the recent Futsal teams were announced for the National Championships to be played in
Canberra there were some interesting mutterings from around the local futsal scene.
Previously Capital Football has run the Cobras and Colts, two teams in all divisions.
Canberra Club members may have an opportunity to assist Australian player development. If history
in the local clubland is anything to go by, there is no guarantee they'll do it -at least not
without a fight!
Along time ago I was good enough to take on Mark Viduka and Craig Moore in football.
Should football associations and federations call for tenders and financially support the one or
two clubs in a region who can provide the best development model.
Gets the Federation out of Rep and player development - something they have struggled to really
develop over the years - consistently.
There still seems to be a lack of Technical Development in Aussie football - not perhaps for the
chosen 12 kids in a High Performance Federation program but in the rest of the cohort - the other
99% of players.
Australia: Does anyone care?
If 12 and 13 year old boys and girls at ALL levels of the game are expected to play on the same
field as our men - ie the biggest ones you can find - how do we expect the culture of the players,
the watching parents and the small-sided games philosophy to actually take hold across the land.
It's Kanga Cup week and visitors have come from Sydney, Witsundays, NT, Tassie, NZ, Phillipines,
Malaysia and Korea to name some of the 230 plus teams in Canberra this week.
It's cold, it always is in July in the Capital but two things have got my goat this week.
Lots of great football, cheery spirit and great comaraderie.
It was reaffirmed that Canberra's possible inclusion in the Hyundai A-League was
postponed for the forseeable future. The idea of a separate, stand-alone Canberra team in the
National Youth League was canvassed, but economic factors were identified as a major impediment at
this stage
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In no particular order:
1. Blatter out.
2. Capital Football to produce a vision, a plan for our boys post-15. (It is possible to make
professional ranks despite missing out on the AIS or ACTAS - just not in Canberra football.)
An A-League Youth team, inspired but not run by Capital Football.
Now if you criticise Capital Football in Canberra you get chastised but sometimes someone needs to
voice what many voices are saying.
What are the priorities for Capital Football going forward?
Let's start with the girls/women. The number one focus for Capital Footbal over the last few years
- and seemingly into the future.
Frustrations abound with Capital Football, Canberra football, to achieve competitive football
post-15 for our boys.
A boy coming out of 4 or 5 training sessions a week can go and train twice a week at the best
Canberra Premier League clubs. Waste of time isn't it if you really want to push on as a player.
Peter Funnell author of all things www.nearpostlocal.blogspot.com is on to it. So I'm going to use
Twitter to get to the man that matters - the Foz! Not sure this is a Capital Football thing - they
are more about U12
Football People Power In The ACT - We Need it!
Sourced from the SBS World Game, Craig Foster's Blog http://theworldgame.
I'm serious about football, technical skill, education, kid development and abusing clerics in the
Catholic Church...but hey that's another story!
When Capital Football the Peak Body in Canberra announce that u12 boys and girls will now play
competitively, ie with results and league tables produced each week, I'm wondering on what criteria
this could be considered beneficial to the development of players.
FourFourTwo are reporting
ACT starlet Tom Rogic said he was stunned and elated after winning one of eight
professional contracts at the Nike Academy in England announced in London on Saturday
night.
First Chris Bush gets an A-League contract with the Brisbane Roar - now Tom Rogic scores an amazing
contract, one of eight, and he was up against the Rest of the World!
FourFourTwo are reporting
Unknown ACT teenager Tom Rogic has caught the eye of professional European coaches at
Nike's Chance trials ahead of the final 32 being announced later today London
time.
The fertile ground of football development known as Canberra continues to produce, over-produce
quality players despite little FFA or Capital Football support or leadership for our post-15 age
group - of boys.
The FFA might not want a team in the A-League from Canberra but Canberra will host up to seven
games in the 2015 Asia Cup.
Fantastic.
Now show us how the FFA, Capital Football, ACT Government has any plan to use this huge and
significant tournament to build the game either through a professional football team, a youth team
and a legacy for the kids who play the game in Canberra.
