From kings of Oceania to Asian minnows: Behind the Socceroos’ decline | micklynch_age
, an FA board member. All three first played locally and fought to establish themselves as senior players.
“Think of Harry as a kid. Imagine in today’s system where he can’t just get the ball and run at players. He would have to slow down, pass the ball, move it,” Colosimo says. Smith adds: “It’s as plain as anything – we don’t play enough football and haven’t done for years now and unless we change that, nothing is going to change.
“In the last 15 to 20 years you have had the NSL collapse, the A-League start, the arrival of private and club academies, the demise of the AIS, so it’s an imperfect storm,” Sticca says. “We need to be smarter about how we develop our talent, as we don’t have the population base of these other countries,” he says.
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