Caporegime
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That would be true except for the fact it isn't. Guys involved all across Europe went to spain, and have been to Germany and before that went to Holland to find out how they were training and went back home and implemented it.
We sent people to learn how they train in other countries, then we came back and did that very English thing if deciding we know better, and changed nothing important, and failed miserably.
Good football is good football, football is entertainment, the more entertaining it is the more people watch it, the more they make from it. National teams aren't particularly profitable, Fifa milk loads from it. Simple fact is if better footballers were coming out of england, Barca can grab them and use them, win.
Lambert went and simply learned to be a manager and got his coaching badges in Germany, there isn't any national secrets in coaching. We're talking about thousands, probably millions of kids being trained all over the place, you go to spain and try not to get arrested for being a peado and watch kids training, see what the coaches are doing.
Fundamentally Germany/Spain have , I forget the numbers, 30-40k coaches trained all the way up to top levels, learning from the best people training coaches in Spain and Germany. England has a few thousands coaches of the same standard, and very few involved in youth development.
Almost every successful country pays for, trains and breeds coaches basically, England doesn't...... it's the glaring and massive difference between England and most other countries producing great talent by the bucketload.
We know this, we learned this, we ignored it because "we're English and we know better, the game was invented here, we know best".... etc, etc.
We need different guys who won't do the same thing.
Rio, do kids who have been through school all make for great teachers? Do great teachers all make for great managers/headmasters? Do all footballers make great coaches? no one on the panel has an experience at all with fundamentally changing the youth coaching system......... nor training coaches, Rio isn't even a coach. Why can't we simply ask people qualified what to do... then not get all "we know best" and just do it.
Billions a year in football in the UK, and we can't get the FA to put aside 10mil a year to invite every youth football coach in the country to train to higher standards.
