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THE fledging national youth football program of the Philippine Football Federation needs a long term approach in order to be successful, according to UEFA coach and book author Maor Rozen.
Rozen was here in Cagayan de Oro City yesterday to launch his book `Tactics From The Roots’ in front of coaches from Northern Mindanao at the Country Village Hotel in (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) Bgry. Carmen.
The book is a project of the Carlos C. Cojuangco Foundation which was founded by the former Negros Occidental Football Association (NOFA) president Charlie C. Cojuangco.
He cited the example of the Indonesian FA which brought 24 of their best U15 players to join a tournament in Uruguay few years ago to gain experience. “They went to Uruguay to learn and to be better footballers. They have long term program,’’ he said.
The bulk of that team which trained and competed in Uruguay represented Indonesia in the recently concluded Asean Football Federation (AFF) U18 Championship in Myanmar.
He also said that the PFF needs quality and experienced coaches to handle our youth teams. “Look at Spain, they are very successful because they have very good and experience coaches in their youth teams.’’
The Spanish youth teams are the feeders of the Spanish National teams.
Contrary, the Philippine youth teams are always assembled hastily months or even sometimes weeks before any tournament. We also have very unexperienced coaches handling the different teams.