QUOTE(Duke Red @ Nov 29 2011, 06:37 PM)
Not my theory actually I'm repeating what I was told by this bloke I mentioned. Like I said, he is trying to get his class "A" coaching license but was denied. He plays for a pretty good team and participates in local tournaments.
well whosever theory it is, it’s quite blatantly absurd. Maybe we are misunderstood. if you catch him again try to ask some names as an example to add base and substantiality to his comments for us to understand better.
I really want it to be true though. to have a competitive and commercial college league like America, japan and Korea have. that way the colleges will bear the cost and responsibility of conducting structured football academies to prepare them for pro work life like what they are doing for other industry. this eases off the pressure on SSBJ a bit and also narrows the divide between academic and sports world.
Private IPT also need to be cooperate also. But I doubt they will as sports are not high on their profit accumulating agenda. We see a lot of gov IPT in the IPT league roster also only because the gov force and provide them the fund to participate.
I try to consult a private football academy coach about A license and below are his comment and I quote :
"thats normal (stigma of FAM unofficial requirement that for A must be an ex player)..every coaching course I went..there is someone will say these courses are made to help ex pro. it is not true..im not an ex pro..."
Asked whether he has already applied for his A license :
"nope..not yet...if im not mistaken in Malaysia we have no more than 50 A or Pro Licence coach....if someone know this correct me if im wrong..might be even less than 50...i assume it is difficult..passing rate in Malaysia is one of the toughest in the region...instructor are strict and quality is a must"
For the record he is holding AFC C License , FIFA Grassroot. 'A' license now under AFC and not FAM but FAM chooses the candidate. the only best way to know what their selection criteria are is to ask them directly. For what I know, 'A' License is a very exclusive club and even ex-pro legends like Radhi Mat Din and Hashim Mustapha only have B and perennial assistant coaches. it is that hard for former pros so non ex-pros probably need to make a really strong case to fight off the pre-competition due to the standard.
QUOTE(Duke Red @ Nov 29 2011, 06:48 PM)
I can't imagine why the Chinese would avoid football by choice. I mean it pays much better than bowling or basketball.
I think it's safe to say that there are ample local tournaments but the questions is, are there scouts present? Also what age groups are present during these tournaments? Primary level would be a good place to start looking and identifying talent that you can still mold and develop. The thing about clinics are that they are often one off. You pick up a few tips but still, you need a coach to guide and push you, hence the importance of academies. How do we fare when it comes to academies? Do we have enough? Are the coaches sufficiently qualified? Are development programmes at these academies adequate?
Try to chat with FLampard of this forum. He is a Chinese that is aspirant to be a pro player. Maybe we will understand better.
yeah. academies are the real deal. currently save the SSBJ guys, all the players we have in the league are on-the-job-self-trained work force. football academies are the universities for football players. like doctors, lawyers, and accountant, football also needs to do full term in their 'university' before they are qualified to be pro.
Problem for football academies is, they need a lot of upfront investment with a subjective and long term result, so not many would like to delve long term in it. Politicians especially only on 4 year term so anything they do must show result in that period. Football academy investment need at least 20 years to bear fruit provided they are done with the right way consistently. State FAs also financially survive on year to year basis. They don’t have the capital that can support them on long term planning. Overseas clubs have fans who buy season tickets and stay with the team through thick and thin. We don’t.
That’s why I think it’s the government responsibility to support grass root football development either through schools or universities. In Malaysia, they control the most precious entity in football grass root development. That “time of youth” in primary and secondary school.
QUOTE(Duke Red @ Nov 29 2011, 09:00 PM)
Do you reckon that we're guilty of being a little too proud and perhaps we do require foreign expertise? I mean even England broke tradition and hired foreign managers to stem their decline in the form of Sven Goran Erickson and now Fabiola Capello. Japan and South Korea, both Asian giants we used to beat employ foreigmanger hers and coaches. What else did they do right that we didn't? We had in the past employed the likes of Josef Venglos and Claude Le Roy, both of whom went on to lead teams into the World Cup but it was reported neither really had full control over the selection of players and neither was kept on for very long. We seem to change managers like we change t-shirts but the problem lies not with the manager I feel. Foreign expertise has developed local champions in badminton, bowling, cycling, archery, shooting and swimming, so why not football? I've met a few people who are linked with overseas academies and they seem to have some solid ideas. What I've heard however is that FAM aren't exactly the most open-minded people hence why these academies and largely available only to private schools students whose parents can afford to pay for it. Why not adopt proven systems?

But record shows that local coaches, Sathianathan, K. Rajagobal and Ong Kim Swee have been more successful than all our previous foreign coaches put together. So I don’t think nationality matters in this.
What all 3 coaches have in common advantage over foreign coaches is understanding and time with the players. All of them pick, choose and groom their players since the U-19 stage. So it’s just nice by the time become national team head coach, “their players” has already matured and can be used. Foreign coaches do not have this advantage.
But I sense that our coaches don’t have good enough training and experience in grass root level. So if foreign coaches can help there and there are people supporting that cost, then why not…