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Post by narko on May 25, 2012 22:39:58 GMT 8
If we're keeping score then cjeagle is blitzing bobg, hehe. I agree with the points raised by cjeagle, we got a long way to go. I'd like to add that while cjeagle pointed out Japan and the U.S. encourage their top players to ply their trade in top leagues in Europe, they are not the only ones. The Latin Americans who have quite competitive and decent leagues usually have their naitonal team players based in Europe. The Africans also take advantage of the experience and training their top players get in top leagues in Europe as opposed to playing in their local leagues.
I would like for our local league to be considered a top league in the region, it will be to the benefit of Philippine football. I would wager though that when that day comes, we'll start seeing our top local trained players being snapped up by top leagues overseas, and that wouldn't be a bad thing at all. That is what is happening in the rest of the football world.
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Post by cjeagle on May 25, 2012 23:36:13 GMT 8
It won't take that long before we see players going to Europe narko. We just need to follow the example of our neighbors like Malaysia and Indonesia. For example, Malaysian youngster Mohd Nazmi Faiz recently signed a three-year contract with Portuguese Division One side S.C Beira Mar, after impressing the club selectors in a week-long trial as mentioned in this article: www.aseanfootball.org/?p=8426Several locally based Indonesians have also gained employment in such countries as the Netherlands, albeit not in the top tier just like Nazmi above, although they don't usually get much playing time with their clubs in most cases.
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Post by xyz1000 on May 26, 2012 8:28:02 GMT 8
Thank you to Bob G for the long article. But what he asserts is completely irrelevant and moot. The national team and the PFF cannot, and will not, forget home-grown players even if they wanted to. There is just too much momentum in the rise of football.
The more relevant question "was" can home-grown players forget PFF and football, and I say was because the question has already been answered. For many, many years the answer was yes -- football was forgotten when the Americans moved in, ushering in the dark ages of filipino football. But with the advent of a new era, the rise of the Azkals, the popularity of the local leagues, more and more kids are playing and there's bound to be those gifted ones, those swift ones, those hungry ones, literally and figuratively, who will rise above the rest and prove themselves impossible to ignore by the PFF and the national team. Impossible to ignore by the international football community. Of this I am absolutely certain.
The only thing that's uncertain is when this will happen. Two years? I doubt we will have more than four or five in the same quality as Chieffy, Ian, or Freddy at his prime. Four years? We might have some playing in Europe. Six years? Maybe someone will be trying to put one past Neil in Craven Cottage.
There is no way that the Azkals can ever forget home-grown players because in the long run, it will be impossible to.
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Post by mrpmosh on May 27, 2012 15:09:29 GMT 8
As usual, I'll give my very uninformed Mexican point of view. I really think there's a huge importance in having good homegrown talents, even stars in your NT. My personal experience: When I as a kid, I had Ronaldo and Oliver Kahn as my idols, almost gods, but who I truly wanted to be like were Jesús "Cabrito" Arellano and Antonio De Nigris (RIP). Why? Cuz they were from my city, grew up in my city, spoke with my own accent, used my slang, knew the places I usually visit, I saw them play live and even attended the same university that I do, so I truly feel I could be like them, not like Ronaldo, not like Batistuta, not even like Cuauhtémoc Blanco nor Rafael Márquez, I could identify with them. That's one of the biggest roles for the homegrown talent, thought, to become a role model for the players of the future, someone they can identify and aspire to be like. That's why I feel even more excited for the latest core of Monterrey-born players ( Dos Santos brothers -born in Mexico city but totally raised in my city-, Aldo De Nigris, Hiram Mier, Jesús Zavala, Israel Jiménez) in the National teams... Of course, that doesn't mean they should select players for where they born at but for how good they are.
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