Yngwie74
11-10-2007, 20:12
Xbox is to blame for poor English footballers says top UK soccer coach
Top UK soccer coach Harry Redknapp has pointed towards the impact of the Xbox for the lack of quality English soccer players. Redknapp blogged that computer games are now taking the place of a kickabout in the local park unlike the old days where working class folk used to eat, live and breathe football for real and not on their Xbox. He goes on further to state that maybe the drive the English had 30 years ago has been replaced by computer game passion. Harry, we'd hate to break it to you but there is a lot more that has to been done at a grass-root level and even before the advent of computer games England was never a world beater on par with the history of Brazil (apart from in '66).
"I'm fed up with managers being made scapegoats for the state of our domestic game.
"The English working class is turning its back on football - and that is not my fault. It may sound old and corny but when I was growing up, working class lads like me in the east end lived and breathed football.
"Now I rarely see a kickabout in the park. All I see are the dazzling lights of bedroom windows from the glare of TVs and computers. It seems football cannot compete with an Xbox."
Now he’s being forced to look abroad for top talent, he adds, because the motivation of youngsters is greater.
"I do have a lot of foreign players at Portsmouth but believe me I'd love nothing more than to field a team of 11 so-called 'home-grown' lads born within the city limits.
"But it has become harder and harder to find enough kids of the kind of quality required to make the grade without buying an air ticket."
"Maybe they have the hunger and drive that working class boys of England had 30 years ago but now is replaced by videogame passion," he said.
Fonte maxconsole.net
In fin dei conti a ste console sono state affibiate le colpe per qualsiasi crimine commesso ultimamente in questo mondo, vogliamo non imputargli anche il fatto che la nuova generazione di calciatori inglesi sia composta da pippe? :D
Il coach Larry Redknapp si lamenta del fatto che i ragazzi invece che giocare sul serio a pallone nel parco lo fanno piuttosto alla Tv.
Anche se ci si scherza su, un fondo di verita' in cio' che dice c'e' sicuramente.
Io la mia infanzia me la ricordo soprattutto per strada a giocare a pallone con gli amici, pur avendo avuto il vecchio C64 nel 1983 all'eta' di 9 anni.
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Top UK soccer coach Harry Redknapp has pointed towards the impact of the Xbox for the lack of quality English soccer players. Redknapp blogged that computer games are now taking the place of a kickabout in the local park unlike the old days where working class folk used to eat, live and breathe football for real and not on their Xbox. He goes on further to state that maybe the drive the English had 30 years ago has been replaced by computer game passion. Harry, we'd hate to break it to you but there is a lot more that has to been done at a grass-root level and even before the advent of computer games England was never a world beater on par with the history of Brazil (apart from in '66).
"I'm fed up with managers being made scapegoats for the state of our domestic game.
"The English working class is turning its back on football - and that is not my fault. It may sound old and corny but when I was growing up, working class lads like me in the east end lived and breathed football.
"Now I rarely see a kickabout in the park. All I see are the dazzling lights of bedroom windows from the glare of TVs and computers. It seems football cannot compete with an Xbox."
Now he’s being forced to look abroad for top talent, he adds, because the motivation of youngsters is greater.
"I do have a lot of foreign players at Portsmouth but believe me I'd love nothing more than to field a team of 11 so-called 'home-grown' lads born within the city limits.
"But it has become harder and harder to find enough kids of the kind of quality required to make the grade without buying an air ticket."
"Maybe they have the hunger and drive that working class boys of England had 30 years ago but now is replaced by videogame passion," he said.
Fonte maxconsole.net
In fin dei conti a ste console sono state affibiate le colpe per qualsiasi crimine commesso ultimamente in questo mondo, vogliamo non imputargli anche il fatto che la nuova generazione di calciatori inglesi sia composta da pippe? :D
Il coach Larry Redknapp si lamenta del fatto che i ragazzi invece che giocare sul serio a pallone nel parco lo fanno piuttosto alla Tv.
Anche se ci si scherza su, un fondo di verita' in cio' che dice c'e' sicuramente.
Io la mia infanzia me la ricordo soprattutto per strada a giocare a pallone con gli amici, pur avendo avuto il vecchio C64 nel 1983 all'eta' di 9 anni.
Oggi le cose sono parecchio cambiate...