Technical shortcomings

We should all start diving like toti that will give us class and high technical marks, Teams have their style of play and Poland plays a physical game.

Hey it worked in the qualifiers, and look at all the goals we scored and not just by Olisadebe but by Zewlakow, Kaluzny, Kryszalowicz

If our players were not good or comfortable on the ball than they wouldn't play for top foreign leagues, Swerczewski is a great midfielder with great ball control and passing skills

watch a FC Lens game and you can see Jacek Bak doing bicicle kicks as well as great ball control....

watch a Feyenord game and you can see Smolarek doing 360 degre turns on the ball and running past defenders...

watch PAO and you can see OLI blow bast 3 defenders...

watch Liverpool game and you can see spectacular saves that nearly no one could pull off Dudek seems to come up with them week in and week out...

I think you get the point...

You can always find some positive exceptions, but in general we lack technical skills. Sad but true. That's why we must pay much more attention to factors like stamina or strength.

In my opinion the main reason is poor youth coaching system in Poland. It's all about the money and lack of organisation. The clubs have no cash to train young talents. One of the requirements that Polish clubs will have to meet after the licence system is introduced is the necessity of having at least few youth teams. When it was announced, there was a big lament from even the richest clubs of our league which claim they have no pitches for youngsters and no money to spend on them. Pathethic.

Another reason are coaches. Some well known Polisch coaches like Andrzej Strejlau or Henryk Apostel claim that we have a great number of very good and still working coaches. That's bullsh*t. Of course, once again, the money is an important factor. Most of those who train young players earn ridiculously small money. And a lot of them have bad attitude to their profession. They often just throw the ball on the pitch and order children to play. They teach them nothing. Most of our youngsters are taught to run, while they terribly lack activities with ball. We have a lot of successes in U-16 or U-18 tournaments, but that's only art in itself. We forget that you train a youngster to turn him into a skilled player. We too often train them to win when they are young. They are taller and stronger than their peers from other countries, but after few years this means nothing.

Unfortunately, we also suffer from weather conditions. We can't play football through the whole year like people from southern countries do. This is a serious disadvantage, especially when you have no proper facilities (heated pitches, indoor pitches and so on).

The greatest talent of our soccer was in recent years probably Marek Citko. That guy had everything... Unfortunately, injuries ruined his career :depress: That's a big loss, not only for Polish, but also international soccer...