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A bloggers role, in football, is perhaps simply to call and comment on things as they see them.
Free of entrepreneur "vision" or the paymasters check I can call it as I see it. Simple as
that.
For too long Australian football media has produced unscintillating football reportage.
Robbie Slater has taken Craig Foster to task over Fozzie's article/analysis of Melbourne Victory's
Coaching appointment.
Fozzie's article is intelligent, well thought out and something we need in this country - even if
you don't agree with it's sentiment.
It adds to our football intelligence, it makes us think.
Now Craig Foster and the like can ooze over Harry's nice touch, his nice pass - so can I - but come
on Australia - how many has there been?
Is the Emperor wearing any clothes?
We all want Harry to do Harry stuff - but Carlos is outperforming him. If you want skill, touch and
goals look to Carlos Hernandez.
Well I must say I was a little surprised when Ben Buckley called last night to offer me the job of
Socceroos' Head Coach, starting immediately.
Of course I know when the time for my national duty has come, and I accepted. But not before I had
a long talk with Buckley in which I said I would be making a number of changes, some of them which
will shock some people and many fans, and he guaranteed that I would have complete freedom and
control over the roster.
There are only five....I know there are heaps more these days but most blog readers have the
attention span of a gnat.
1. Friday night football - Adelaide United at home, I love it and United and Heart always play or
try to play good football. Both our Dutch Coaches under the pump, with Versleijan gone and taking a
pop at our Craig Foster this week - Dutch are cellar dwellars just now.
Harry Kewell is back to play in Australia, in the A-League and I like most other football fans are
delighted.
Sure on Twitter, The Australian's Ray Gatt and surprisingly The Age's Mick Lynch, have been
defending the so-called "opinion piece" from Sydney Morning Herald writer and Fox Sports
Commentator Mike Cockerill on Harry's return - oh how Mike despises Harry.
Well everyone has an opinion and there is always a debate between those who've played
professionally and those Coaches who haven't.
Do you need to play professionally to develop young players? I don't think so but then I didn't
train professionally - I played in Canberra!!!!
But maybe our Coaches who are full-time, but haven't played professionally have lacked real
guidance from the professional side of the game down the years.
Well everyone has an opinion and there is always a debate between those who've played
professionally and those Coaches who haven't.
Do you need to play professionally to develop young players? I don't think so but then I didn't
train professionally - I played in Canberra!!!!
But maybe our Coaches who are full-time, but haven't played professionally have lacked real
guidance from the professional side of the game down the years.
Each of these competitions has its own vested interest and with a limited talent pool,
the same girls or boys are training and playing in the same elite competitions across all of these
areas, with no co-ordination whatsoever.
Full article here
Raise an issue on a blog and you'll be criticised for simply having a thought - but someone needs
to be raising these issues and in Craig Foster we have someone prepared to discuss, argue, and when
necessary advocate for change.
Each of these competitions has its own vested interest and with a limited talent pool,
the same girls or boys are training and playing in the same elite competitions across all of these
areas, with no co-ordination whatsoever.
Full article here
Raise an issue on a blog and you'll be criticised for simply having a thought - but someone needs
to be raising these issues and in Craig Foster we have someone prepared to discuss, argue, and when
necessary advocate for change.
The winter season can be quiet on the media front. Not this year.
The news from the World Cup has been bad, particularly on corruption at FIFA. However, Ben Buckley
and the clubs have followed this up with a truck load of good, OK and other news. So soccer is
staying there on the sporting pages, reminding families that it is an entertainment option for next
season.
I wish I had this book 5 years ago when I started coaching. I would have got 'it' more quickly. It
is about having space, which equals time.
His passion comes through. So does Craig's reputation for not pulling punches. He isn't going to
count to 10 before saying what thinks, and if he does it isn't going to change anyway.
If Australia wants to win a World Cup then the style of play and individual performances at the U17
and U20 World Cups are always a good guide to how well or otherwise a national team might perform
in coming years and certainly to their style.
Australia has shouted long and loud about how we are going to change, indeed are changing our style
of play, but after todays performance the Kaz Patafta inspired U17 team of 2005 under Ange
Postecoglou was no worse than this performance.
I love to go to the beach and build a castle, a sand castle. But despite all the oohs and aahs from
passers by I know that in the arvo someone will have come by and stamped on my creation.
Nothing permanent.
And such is football in Australia - it seems to me.
How many times have we heard Manchester United are coming, or in recent times Celtic, Juventus or
Beckham.
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.
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.
Ross Aloisi received the PFA Craig Foster Football Media Scholarship, in recognition of
his work as a football analyst for Fox Sports and a regular columnist for Soccer International.
Aloisi played in the old NSL and was a part of Adelaide City's championship in 1992. A Socceroo who
spent 6 years in Europe, he was a key player in the establishment of both Adelaide United and
Wellington Phoenix in the A-League.
Craig Foster building football - on his own. Check the video from around the 13th minute to hear
Fozzie on the Southern Cross Uni development in his home town of Lismore. Video link
Fozzie is an Australian visionary, not just a football visionary.
His football education and development centre based at Lismore will become a magnet for football
fans, students of the game, coaches, football administrators.
How come all the organisers of football, the media, the FFA, the whole lot of em run everything out
of Sydney...or so it seems.
So tonights plan to "Save the Game" or some other such football fanfest, while of course an
interesting intiative - but we hold it in Sydney.
Reckon Adelaide would have been better - at least they'd get a few fans!
