deceived by the fallacy of global coaching doctrines

[Intel]

African football deceived by the fallacy of global coaching doctrines

 

"Another World Cup tournament has passed and the many long years of expectation that African football would threaten the summit of the world game remain as yet unfulfilled. There was growing hope that after partial successes gained by African countries at the World Cup finals in 1990 (Cameroon), 1994 and 1998 (Nigeria) and 2002 (Senegal), the 2006 German edition would bring some glory to the continent. Sadly, this failed to materialize."

 

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Some very interesting points.

[N.O.R.F]

The warnings were there

 

The predictions (or more accurately, warnings) expressed ten years ago by Aime Jacquet, France’s renowned 1998 World Cup-winning coach, member of the FIFA’s technical committee and former chairman of the French Football Federation’s technical committee, now substantiate Africa’s predicament. His memorable forecast illustrates the present reality precisely. He said that if Africa continues to believe in the false impression created globally that French, Germans, English and Portuguese, among others, would automatically bring success to the continent; the result will only be to ’’reap failure’’.

 

Africa should have listened carefully to Jacquet, along with a host of other game technicians, who uncompromisingly and honestly base their views on scientifically supported knowledge and experience. Instead, the entire coaching philosophy in the continent became more and more dependent on the decreasingly relevant European doctrine of training.

 

Universalized sterile mentality

 

Predictably, the European coaching concept, which is tailored to suit the traits of the European type of player, also gives rise to a cautious, more rigid and not-lose mentality of football. Niall Quinn, one of the most respected game analysts in Europe joins the chorus of critics of the current conservative football dished up in Europe, and elaborates on the causes and effects that currently determine top-level football strategy. He attributes the fast growing culture of safety first, uninspiring brand of ‘caveman football’ to mechanical training and the ’coaching copycat effect’. He observes that ‘all coaches today have to go through the same qualifications.

 

They are being taught the same sterile curriculum, the same methods and often by the same people. They all influence each other – same drills, same pasta. Is it any wonder that there are so many similarities when they put teams on the pitch? A coaching qualification should have the status of a first-aid badge: useful but not an entire philosophy’. It’s like being a musician; some of the greatest geniuses have had little or no formal training. No progressive tactics from an almost universal European coaching style were detected at the World Cup in Germany, except the innovative ’tactical effects’ of the newly launched ADIDAS ball.