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Originally Posted by RedRover
I couldn't agree more. We have seen teams with players no one outside of their country has heard of - yet they can all control and pass a football - a skill many players even at the top level lack.
England seem to be light years away from the top international sides and the reason can only be because of the grass roots coaching in the UK, coaching which seems to champion the physicality of the game rather than teaching kids to actually play football.
Why are we persisting with Beckham's slowing play down every time he gets the ball, over the skill and ingenuity of the likes of Bentley? It seems to sum up the attitude of English football from a certain level.
The problem with football is not the numbers of foreign players, indeed we could learn a thing or two from their approach to the game.
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Exactly. Cristiano Ronaldo, for example, is a player that will hopefully change the way this country's youth play football. People will aspire to dribble past players in a similar fashion and hopefully more exciting and technically astute players will be produced as opposed to those we currently have who very little attacking instinct.
The only hope for youth in this country is if more Ronaldos and other such players are plying their trade in the Premiership. I can only hope that footballing wise they are used as role models as the coaching system in this country will ensure that players are never encouraged to be creative. A bad thing that could come out of this however is that youngsters may start diving......