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Old 05-26-2010, 12:21 PM   #269
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Originally Posted by mmanzz View Post
After all look at teams like T@T, Jamaica, New Zealand and such! The bottom line is Canada needs to improve there general gamesmanship skills like diving and delaying the game when needed.
Bollocks. I'm sorry to be crude but I feel you are way off the mark. It's not a matter of our players being willing to throw themselves down in order to draw a foul, do the Aussies and Kiwis do that? When comparing us to nations that we should be able to compete with, you mention countries like T&T and Jamaica. While the structure of our formal systems is more professional than their's, their informal systems of player development are better than our own and complete the job even our formal player development system fails to do; develop footballers.


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Win with an average coach would take alot of funding which is another issue. I still think coaching at the top level is the key.
With a statement like the one above, I'm thinking that you are trying to take a shortcut that might not even get you to your desired destination.
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