India Have Rich Football Talent!
Winning a medal in the Olympics, World Cup and other international competitions is not an easy task in the tough globalized world of football competitions. It is the long-term plan in the clench of die-hard competitive football training. This has eventually compelled coaches, trainers, and all those concerned with the development of football to pick-up children at an early young age in order to train them in long-term planning for winning of the football competition in future. The search and selection of potential football players in the early age is a matter of routine in many football-developed countries. However, in India, this aspect has not been given serious consideration.
The identification and selection of future elite football players in childhood or adolescence has become a necessity. It takes years of intensive regular training for an International performance to achieve. The children selected for elite football require suitable conditions and different exuberant facilities, hi-tech quality equipments, a rational style of life and the service of experts, physician, well-educated and experienced coaches, trainers etc.
High level football performance is the result of a multiple factors such as physical, motor abilities, constitutional mental abilities, high physiological work out put, technical and tactical efficiency etc. The poor performance of players at the higher competitions, not only concerns especially to the coaches, trainers and sports scientists, but it is also concerned directly to the player's inborn quality or natural ability. Numerous factors like skill abilities, motor abilities, psychological and physiological factors, social and environmental factors, etc. are responsible as the performance limiting factors behind the football players on the marks of poor performance in major competitions. Natural ability is essential, but it needs to combine with good coaching with hi-tech modern facilities, hard work, and more challenging match experience.
Therefore, the performance of excellent football players is the result of interactions of a number of these performance limiting factors, which includes high psychological and physiological demands. Not only is that traditional type social football culture of the society also very much important to create more football talent in the Indian scenario. It is distinguish that football is a game of psycho-physio-physical activity and highly influenced by traditional type football atmosphere. Now, India need mass participation in football all over country to make a traditional football society like European and Latin American countries if India want to make a classic stage in the global football world. Only that India could produce more potential football talent for future champion. It is recommended that "catch them young and plan today for better tomorrow."
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