Regarding 3 above, the typical international player development model in professional football is club based. That is the national associations do not operate centralised high performance systems and programs. Professional clubs run the high performance part of the game around their needs, to be successful in highly competitive longitudinal competitions. National Associations select players from clubs for national teams as they need them.Football in New Zealand has been built domestically on the amateur game and the logical evolution has been to centralize high performance around the national squads. New Zealand Football’s vision is that football becomes stronger at franchise and club level, so that in future a decentralised model (for talent development, high performance programs, academies etc.)evolves, creating a more effective early player development system and ultimately improving the strength of the overall high performance system.
Which is fine in theory, but the overseas clubs that are developing talent to international level have significant resources available to do so. Here in NZ the average club needs to run sausage sizzles to raise money for new junior kit or goals.
Are NZF proposing that they help fund clubs to develop the players, or are they suggesting they cut FTC programmes and hope the clubs pickup the slack ?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, otherwise I'm reading this document as 'we need more more money, but want the clubs to develop players for us'...