This thread is talking about football player from third person POV, but i wrote it in second person POV. Hope ppl can understand.

1) Talking of nature, one must be born with good enough flexibility, if he doesnt have, then he can only overcome it by training at young age, once he grows up, its difficult and painful for someone to develop his flexibility, especially at the groin, without that, either you gonna miss kick very often or suffer injuries due to stiffness.
2) Good football education is VERY important, when i go back to my hometown, i see ppl that i had not seen for 3 years, and they still seem to play the same football without anything new, which means, no improvement.
With proper football upbringing, a player can develop and grow up faster and more efficiently, notably in instilling good habits. Weakness can be improved but bad habits are hard to change.
Just like defender has to rush out of the penalty box to make all opponent forwards offside when u clear the ball out of penalty box, this is HABIT, you dun think about doing it, you do it like pre-programmed.

3) To get scouted you must be already a key player in the team. The kind of player that if you dun have transport your manager will come and fetch you personally. If your not, then forget about it. Scouts are not gonna look at subs. Why look at subs when there are already better players on the starting line?

4) The nurture part, nothing can replace hard training, NOTHING. There are so many players out there, what makes you different from them? Why should professional clubs sign you instead of them??? You gotta make that difference. Every player has to work their ass off to sharpen their skill, including those talented ones.

There's a saying : Normal player trains until he gets it right, Good player trains until he cant get it wrong.

Its too right, you gotta train so hard you have the moves in your muscle memory, in your sub-conscious mind. Real game and training is different. In training, you just focus on what you do, in real game situation, u dun have that luxury. Its just too fast. You got to have the next 3 steps in your mind already.

Nicol David quote : "Winning is about thinking one step ahead."

But how are you gonna actually do that when you're thinking of how to dribble? receive with left foot or right foot? Turn left or right? You simply cant. You gotta focus on the match situation. Therefore, in training, you got to train until its already in your subconscious, you can even execute that move with your eyes close.

You got to train insanely hard for that. To become different from other players you simply have to put in effort that other players won't. Dun find yourself tons of excuses for not training. When its raining, you can do push ups, crunches, sit ups indoor, when no one is playing, you can kick the ball against the wall, or go jogging, push yourself to your limit so you can develop better stamina.

Yes training IS boring cause you keep repeat the same moves, BUT to sit on the bench watching other ppl playing is MORE BORING.

last and not least

"Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger man" - JFK

So does Malaysia... Malaysian footballers hardly get scouted by any big leagues in Europe. One of the reason should goes into the nurturing part. I believe during the youth training...The kids were taught to play basic football skills only but not study them. Studying football based on diagrams, video clips etc is important as to practice them (well more or less important). Some left out cardio training or more accurately cardio improvement.... They did cardio until a certain level then they slow down the process....maybe fewer reps.

however your question as to why Asian countries hardly get results in the World Cup. Football is not a one person game. It involves more than the first eleven. Including the manager's strategy and formation, Reserve's impact, atmopshere, player's mutual relationship and understanding and many more. I personally think the Japan national football team put up a good performance in 2010 world cup- losing one match only in group stage to the year's finalist Netherlands by conceding one goal only in that match. Would say they are quite unlucky in Knock out stage losing by penalty. Japan's problem may be the way they control their pace...Go all out too fast in the beginning, pressing opponents too often and too fast, run too much and too hardworking but stamina goes down as the match goes. But yet I still think that Japan team is good. As for South korea....They are ....fine...rather nto talk about it.