can Australia compete when it comes to Developing Football?

[thesoccercoach]

Is there still a place for soccer academies in Australian Youth Soccer which are run by foreign clubs??

With the restructuring of youth development in AUstralia, particularly the shift to small sided games.. do we still need youth training academies run by forgein clubs?

Well first of all, I think Australia is a great sporting nation, and has always looked at worlds best practice in other sports, but at the same time has forged ahead and set standards for the rest of the world to follow. The same cant be said for Football. I think Australia needs to set its own standard, and conduct its own research in developing its own football philosophy.

One privately owned soccer program (or soccer academy in Sydney), has for long rejected the notion that Australians are not good enough to develop their own coaching systems and soccer youth development policies.

Football Elite ( http://www.fbelite.com ) has been running in sydney since 2001 and in that time has developed its own coaching philosophy based on best practice in regards to health and physical education standards world-wide, as well as, youth development policies world wide. The major difference being, that Football Elite is Australian owned and Australian operated, which has been more of a disadvantage, even amongst Australians themselves. Does sporting a british accent make you a better coach?

Football Elite (http://www.fbelite.com) , is one of many soccer coaching businesses, based in sydney and around the country, run my qualified and well travelled professional coaches, trying to put Australian Soccer on the map as a world leader in youth development. Quality is important, but dont assume that anything foreign provides quality. Support Australians like that of Football Elite and others, is providing quality coaching for Australians by Australians.

[swannsong]

There was a big debate in the Coaching Forum on this subject !

[MegaBonus]

dont get sucked in swannie.

this bloke is doing some marketing!!!!

[ozzie owl]

Yep another of those $1,000 courses and we will get you a trial with Milan.

[swannsong]

Yep another of those $1,000 courses and we will get you a trial with Milan.

What, not even a trial with a decent team ?

[Nova]

dont get sucked in swannie.

this bloke is doing some marketing!!!!

That's the sad part MegaBonus, a lot of these are just about the money!

[fossil]

dont get sucked in swannie.

this bloke is doing some marketing!!!!

That's the sad part MegaBonus, a lot of these are just about the money!

so true on the money the adverts are everywhere now the holidays on, what about the rest of the year, I would like to see more experiened coaches or top level players passing on the knowledge and experience they have been exposed too and do it for all age players.

most of the current academies stop at 12 and go into development squads for the older ages, why don't they run the academies to 18 and have the development or highly talented players taken out each year.

[finderskeeper]

Yes.

[roundball]

Junior Development should be driven from the top down. In a similar fashion to education. The FFA should create a training program that is adopted by the state football associations and then pushed down to all affiliated clubs. When I say training program I am not saying a complete take over of what clubs teach their youth but a set of core skills that need to be trained and learnt per age group. This training program could be a copy of what has been succesfull overseas or a hybrid of overseas and local experience.

Until the FFA and state associations increase the investment in junior Development the true football will never get the players or crowds it deserves.

Todays player is tomorrows spectator