Mayne-Nicholls asked to review the structure of the national youth soccer competitions and delivered a proposal, after the role of La Roja Sub 20 in the South American
Harold Mayne-Nicholls, former president of the ANFP, delivered a lapidary judgment on young footballthis after the role of the Red Sub 20 in the South American of Colombia.
Rather than fill with criticism the passage of the team led by Patricio Ormazábal on coffee soil, where he added two defeats, a draw and a win, the former national football helmsman dedicated himself to provide solutions for the future.
The antofagastino formula focuses on spend more time on traininginstead of create tournaments with different divisions and that leads to the loss of talents.
“Painful elimination and defeat of the Sub 20 in the South American of Colombia. It is already a decade that we are out of the final hexagonals and the World Cupbut you have to review the issue ”, he indicated in a video on his social networks.
“Over time, due to pressure from different levels and especially from the coaches, a First and Second Division were opened in the four major categories“he added.
Due to the latter, the 61-year-old journalist pointed out that “we forgot to train and we just started to compete. And there are details that are clearly noticeable in the Chilean team: bad controls, they don’t go through the back, sometimes with the ball dominated they give it to the rival. That is, the training was forgotten.
When revealing his proposal, the man who brought Marcelo Bielsa to the absolute Red said that “the football part that the experts see, I want to go to a structural change that youth football has had in our country. Always, or from approximately 94′, we played in a north group and a south group, which allowed us toAll the children and young people shared with others on the field, that they demonstrated their talent”.
“We have to do a very deep analysis, train players again until they are maybe 17 and 18 years old. In the projection they compete, but first we have to reform. Nobody knows where talent is born. Let’s not do two divisions where there may be a talent that is lost because no one sees him and he doesn’t have the opportunity to play against the best,” he added.
In this way, the head honcho of the Chilean Football Federation from 2007 to January 2011 requests review the structure of national youth soccer competitions.