Calderon said in chinese media about Saudi football after being sucked by KSA FA, Calderon told the media something about saudi football: 1. the Standard of saudi league is very low~ even it has super class teams like ittihad, but only three clubs are competitive. 2. lack of victory desire is a big problem to Saudi players. 3. faulty youth program, Saudi clubs don't have U-15 teams while in other countries kids started football training at 7 years old!
Can't dissagree too much with what he said. 1. The league is dominated by 5 clubs, who take turns in being on form. The rest make the numbers. All the attention is on the big 4 (+ Shabab) and the rest are made to starve. 2. Mentality is a problem. 3. What youth programme?
Lol, so that reached China? Its the normal chit chat, any coach who gets sacks talks bad stuff about his old team, and while he still is coach he talks good stuff. 1. First of all, if you notice the Saudi Cup topics we have been talking about, you would see that Ittihad, Champions Of Asia etc couldn't reach the semis of the Saudi Cup, and that a Second Division club reached the Quaterfinals, after beating a Premier league club. How can that be uncompetitive? Ittihad hasn't won any Saudi local club tournaments since 2003, I'm not lowering them, they are a powerful club, but the Saudi club competition is tough. 2. I don't understand this one. 3. Most of the big 4 clubs have U-15 sure about that. Yusuf AlThunyan was playing with hus youth club Hilal since he was 11, and he turned to be one of the best saudi players. So most of his talk was just trash, like AR.
No he's not in China, the site doesn't mention where this interview took place~ maybe in Saudi about competitive~ I think 4 big clubs is just enough for a league~ most asian and european leagues only has 4 or 5 regular champions competitors, I don't know the quality of other saudi clubs but I think the top four are competitive.
Right now their is 4 clubs that can lose or win against each other any day. Shabab, hilal, ittihad, and ahli. Nasr, Wahda and Qadysia are inconsistent, and play good from time to time, on their best day, they can beat the top 4. Wahda nowadays is turning pretty solid.
Qadesiya and Wohda are best of the rest, but there's still a big gulf between them and the big teams. They are not capable of sustaining a challenge. They have trouble winning against any of the big teams. They're good enough to do it occasionally (along with Ta'ei and Ittifaq) but it is always a surprise. 9 out of 10 they lose. As for youth teams, there's an U18 (shabab) and U16 (nashe'in) league. That's it. And it's not like they're given much attention. They are very much an afterthaught as far as the clubs are concerned. Every once in a while they talk about "the foundations", but it's just talk.
Wasn't that obvious, sah? Never the less, here you go. Read a google translation of the article: http://www.google.com/translate?u=h...1964173.shtml&langpair=zh-CN|en&hl=en&ie=UTF8
what a translation After reading the title only, i said leave it..................... "Lao Ma in former days the teammate low-spirited said goodbye to Shutt just before leaving the spot has the west Asia soccer world two big chronic diseases" what the heck does that mean