Johannesburg, Monday, 18th April 2011

For the past two weeks I have been working on the evaluation I did on the Gauteng Future Champions Tournament and after concluding it, I came up with some interesting findings.

From those findings I could learn that we are not too far from the amount of work the Europeans and the South American teams have put in the development of young players.

For instance our lack of converting the chances we create throughout the tournament, was also one of the major problems we had and I can gladly say that we will work tirelessly to solve these problems.

Football has become a totally different game whereby players that aspire to play at the highest level, have to learn more than just playing football.

I have discovered that in Europe there is a big emphasis on nutrition and psychological wellbeing of the players. Looking at the games we played against Unversidade Catolica and PSV Eindhoven, our players struggled against the physical condition of the visitors as well as the psychological superiority they showed during the matches.

Of course, there is no ways we could be equal to them in terms of having our players matching them in every aspect of the game, simply because of our lack of appropriate resources and the minimum investment that is done here in South Africa in terms of producing top quality players at a younger age.

In terms of playing with the foot-ball, I am still to find an European team that can match African teams