“I would like to give credit to the youth coaches of Iceland. They are probably among the best in the world.” Heimar Halgrimsson, Iceland National Team Assistant Coach.
For such a small country, it seems that everyone involved in the sport has played a role in making a difference, starting with the fans.
Achieving excellence in the violin is vastly different from mastering a football. Or is it?
Author Danish sporting anthropologist, Rasmus Ankersen, travels around the globe trying to understand the plethora of talent in various locations. The focus of his study includes Brazilian footballers, Kenyan distance runners, Jamaican sprinters and South Korean golfers.
Liverpoool’s latest 29 million pound signing, Roberto Firmino, was turned away from a trial with Sao Paulo FC without even kicking a ball.
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed”
Michael Jordan
This theme, from Matthew Syed’s Bounce, is core to talent development but is it a central theme across our junior footballing environment here in New Zealand?
Diego Maradona’s prolific ability was the accumulated result of hours upon hours spent playing in the streets.
