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The Irish team would benefit from extending their horizons beyond the UK

  • 28-06-2016 4:19pm
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    Mec27
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    I argue that if we had players playing throughout the continent our style of play would be fresher and we would have a greater diversity in ideas and playing styles than we do currently. I think it is detrimental that we have such a reliance on the British game in shaping our football culture.


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    Oat23
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    Another suggestion involving another country fixing our problems.

    In Ireland & the UK our players are taught to play a certain way. In other, more advanced countries, they are taught all the skills necessary to play the game anywhere. This is why you see players from all the best countries playing all over the shop and UK & Irish players playing in the UK & Ireland. They don't have the technical or mental ability to play in other countries.

    We need to fix the problems ourselves when our players are young. If our players head to Germany/Spain/NL when they are 20+ it is like trying to teach an old, under-developed dog new tricks.

    Michael Mancienne went to Germany when he was 23 and said the first few months there almost killed him because he had so much ground to make up technically and physically. He had spent more than half his life a Chelsea player before that, so he was getting a fairly high standard of coaching (by UK standards) before he moved.


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