The beautiful game or so they say. Has anyone ever watched a football match and come away thinking it was anything but beautiful? Games where players where more likely to have banged on their chests King Kong style than to have attempted to pass the ball to a team mate. Players behaving like animals, puffing out their chests and strutting around like they have a television under each arm, whilst being encouraged to "Get stuck in" and "get rid of the ball". And this is a match between children, not a Sunday league pub team.
Many people have their theories on what is wrong with English football and why we don't produce elegant footballers. Get your self down to your local park and you might begin to understand where we are going wrong. There is nothing wrong with children being competitive and wanting to win but the focus needs to be on getting the ball on the floor and playing football not just hitting it 50 feet in the air. Until we learn to be patient with young players, allow them to make mistakes and praise them for their technique instead of encouraging them to rely on their physical attributes to win, then we will continue to fall behind countries like Spain.
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