Englands world cup performance review

Last Updated: Sunday, Feb 7, 2010, 9:02

Review of Englands World Cup 2010 performance

So England are on their way home from the World Cup, and it is upsetting to see such a poor performance.  But, also it is an awakening to our country and the way we educate and coach our children.  Many creative thinkers believe we are in need of a reform in order to change our soccer for the better, I believe this is not enough.  Reform is no use anymore, because that is simply improving a broken model.  What we need, is not a reform, but a transform, we need to totally transform the way we play and educate the game in order to survive an ever improving game, worldwide. If we are going to do this we need to start challenging what we take for granted, I don’t know the answer but what we need to take into consideration is part of a speech that Abraham Lincoln gave in 1862, in the "Second Annual Meeting of Congress":
 
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise—with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
 
To save our game we need to 'disenthrall' ourselves - meaning that the ideas we have on how the game should be played, we are enthralled to in which we take for granted.  But many of our ideas have been created not to meet today’s game, but to cope with the way the game used to played.  Our minds are hypnotized by them and the World Cup of 2010 has shown it is time to disenthrall ourselves. 

Darren Laver - ISSA