Craig Foster did a short interview on the World Cup today on the Radio National Breakfast program.
I have extracted a particularly relevant section of the interview for our local football scene. Craig makes observations that make plain sense around the development of our junior players. We have a National Football Curriculum, we have a model for development provided by the Dutch, which is excellent. But it can be improved upon and its no secret that Spain (and Barcelona) are the most prominent exemplars of the style of play we would hope our "technical revolution" will produce going forward.
The interesting feature of this section of the interview is Craig's refernce to the number of high level qualified coaches in several prominent football nations. We are a long, long way off that mark. Coach education and training is vital to all levels of development in the game. The national curriculum will fail if the coaches are not there in the numbers needed, at the appropriate level of qualification and all on the same page!
This is well worth a listen - won't take long.
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