Impact Players............!!!!!!!!!.............

Talking about the Big 4 clubs in the Premier League, most of the impact players in those clubs are from international football giants like Spain, Brazil, Argentina, France, Italy, England, and Germany. First lets have a look at the impact players of the champions Manchester United, and we have got Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes, Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Carlos Tevez, Carrick and Gary Neville from the above mentioned countries and Cristiano Ronaldo, Edwin Van der Sar and Nani from lesser dominated countries like Portugal and The Neitherlands and Nemanja Vidic is from Serbia. One look the last year’s runner ups Chelsea and the players which come to mind are Frank Lampard, Michael Ballak, John Terry, Nicolas Anelka, Alex, Joe Cole and Florent Malouda are from the above mentioned countries while Deco, Ricardo Carvalho, Petr Cech are from lesser dominating countries like Portugal and Czech Republic, and Michael Essien and Didier Drogba are from African countries. Liverpool have Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Xabi Alonso, Javier Mascherano, Pepe Reina and Jamie Carragher from the mentioned countries whereas Dirk Kuyt and Ryan Babel are from from The Neitherlands. Lastly at the Emirates we have William Gallas, Gael Clichy, Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas from the mentioned countries, and Robin van Persie, Tomas Rosisky, Andrei Arshavin,Eduardo da Silva are from lesser dominating countries like The Neitherlands, Czech Republic, Croatia and Russia and Emanual Adebayor is from Togo. So from the text above we can see that maximum impact players are from the dominating countries like England, Germany, Spain, etc. I beg pardon if I missed out some of the impact players. So we get the conclution that the great players mainly emerge from traditional soccer playing nations. 20-30 years ago there were no Indian players in the Premier League and now still there are none. Well it seems that there are only three reasons for the failure of countries like India that despite having a large population it can still not produce world class players. One reason may be the youths are not interested in football or despite having interest and talent they are discouraged by their parents or infrastructure for learning football is not big enough. Whatever the reason you decide my friend and hope things change.

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By Attacking90

02.04.2009 22:52

Hi Ankur! This is a great topic - one that we think about a lot in the USA! A few possibilities: (1) passion of the country for the sport (2) whether it is the country's top or only sport (3) history of producing great players (4) standard of instruction and coaching (5) strength of the country's league (6) number & salary of careers that can be made in the country's league (7) whether the kids play the game "in the street" daily. In the USA many many kids play and enjoy soccer but they only play it in organized leagues during league season. Hardly any kids go out everyday and find a little game of soccer - so 10 year old kids anywhere in the world who do that may be better than a 14 year old kid in the USA who only plays a few days a week during the soccer season coached by parents who do not even understand the Offside rule. You can see the depth of our problem in the USA, no?! As for India, perhaps they have too much cricket! :)

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