Tanzania Football Federation President Jamal Malinzi recently disclosed
that Tanzania will seek to host the Confederation of African Football
youth championship lined up for 2019.
He added that, as one way of making sure that the country’s junior team performs well in the tournament, plans to form a national Under-12 outfit were already well in progress.
Malinzi elaborated that the side would bring together young talent from all Mainland and Zanzibar districts, the idea being that it would undergo intensive training for such a long time that it would be ripe for the 2019 continental assignment.
According to the TFF president, players to form the team would be so nurtured as ultimately to form a national team to compete in the senior CAF championship and seek to qualify for the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup.There are few short-cuts to success in life generally, and soccer is no exception. For a country to make it in the game, young players must be trained and groomed rigorously – and at high cost – before they can withstand pressure at senior level.
In the circumstances, TFF ought also to make it a mandatory for all soccer clubs in the country to have departments or people whose main responsibility will be to scout for talents in across the country.
Yes, we could be having many talented young players even in villages, but they are rarely given the opportunity to display their worth – and, whenever they do, talent scouts are often nowhere in sight.
TFF ought to cooperate with the corporate world in organising serious youth tournaments, preferably running continually around the year. Here we don’t mean holding only tournaments aimed at promoting new products and services but even those merely seeking to groom budding players into soccer greats.
The national soccer governing body should also make sure that there are facilities right down to district and lower levels where it’ll be easy to notice hidden talent.
We believe that if the TFF leadership devises and implements appropriate and workable strategies, we can surely host CAF 2019 with much hope of doing well. Well done, Malinzi, for deciding to plan early.
He added that, as one way of making sure that the country’s junior team performs well in the tournament, plans to form a national Under-12 outfit were already well in progress.
Malinzi elaborated that the side would bring together young talent from all Mainland and Zanzibar districts, the idea being that it would undergo intensive training for such a long time that it would be ripe for the 2019 continental assignment.
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According to the TFF president, players to form the team would be so nurtured as ultimately to form a national team to compete in the senior CAF championship and seek to qualify for the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup.There are few short-cuts to success in life generally, and soccer is no exception. For a country to make it in the game, young players must be trained and groomed rigorously – and at high cost – before they can withstand pressure at senior level.
In the circumstances, TFF ought also to make it a mandatory for all soccer clubs in the country to have departments or people whose main responsibility will be to scout for talents in across the country.
Yes, we could be having many talented young players even in villages, but they are rarely given the opportunity to display their worth – and, whenever they do, talent scouts are often nowhere in sight.
TFF ought to cooperate with the corporate world in organising serious youth tournaments, preferably running continually around the year. Here we don’t mean holding only tournaments aimed at promoting new products and services but even those merely seeking to groom budding players into soccer greats.
The national soccer governing body should also make sure that there are facilities right down to district and lower levels where it’ll be easy to notice hidden talent.
We believe that if the TFF leadership devises and implements appropriate and workable strategies, we can surely host CAF 2019 with much hope of doing well. Well done, Malinzi, for deciding to plan early.
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
