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Posted September 14, 2024 01:26 · last edited September 14, 2024 01:30

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Why do we need a foreign coach? Get the best NZ coach and as the role is not full time send them and their assistants to overseas clubs to do research and get new ideas. Previous hires of foreign coaches haven’t worked out well have they? A NZ based coach will already have a clear idea of what they have to work with and the reality of easily winning the ofc qualifiers and then getting a pasting at fifa events. The only real way we can significantly change our talent base is to make the highest coaching courses free so that is not a barrier to people doing them and then we will have more players to choose from. And more chances of coaches making a career out of football as well. Iceland I believe have a small population and over-achieved as a result of that game plan. 
For a great insight into Icelandic football and culture, I recommend the recent internationally popular ("Audience Prize" Glasgow Film Festival 2024) Icelandic football documentary "The Home Game" which has been screening on Rialto Channel on Sky here in NZ.
Small countries like Iceland and NZ are not hampered so much by a class system and can draw on a community's diverse talents - here even a tiny Icelandic fishing village has some very smart people with good coaching and organizational ability and people from all walks of life throw their hats in to achieve above anyone's expectations.
"The Home Game is a delightful low-budget Icelandic documentary that couldn't be further removed from the cash-rich, morally bankrupt propensities of professional soccer, and follows the tale of the reformation of a rural Icelandic village's football team, whose aim is to compete in the country's FA Cup competition on home soil for the first time in their history. Hellissandur, a remote fishing town in the West of Iceland, is home to a population of just 369 people and to the area's football team, Reynir FC....
This sleepy, rather unremarkable town is the birthplace of Kari Gylfason, a 30-something father of one, who seeks to complete what his father could not 25 years earlier when he first established the club and built a pitch with difficulty amongst volcanic rock, losing 10-0 away in their first and only FA Cup game. Kari must fashion a half-competent soccer team out of the community's willing and able-bodied — a tall order considering the limited pool of players and the extremely harsh Icelandic conditions." Review, Movieweb.com
Postscript: Reynir FC now compete in the Icelandic league system.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1wPzVNCJI

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Why do we need a foreign coach? Get the best NZ coach and as the role is not full time send them and their assistants to overseas clubs to do research and get new ideas. Previous hires of foreign coaches haven’t worked out well have they? A NZ based coach will already have a clear idea of what they have to work with and the reality of easily winning the ofc qualifiers and then getting a pasting at fifa events. The only real way we can significantly change our talent base is to make the highest coaching courses free so that is not a barrier to people doing them and then we will have more players to choose from. And more chances of coaches making a career out of football as well. Iceland I believe have a small population and over-achieved as a result of that game plan. 
For a great insight into Icelandic football and culture, I recommend the recent internationally popular ("Audience Prize" Glasgow Film Festival 2024) Icelandic football documentary "The Home Game" which has been screening on Rialto Channel here in NZ.
Small countries like Iceland and NZ are not hampered so much by a class system and can draw on a community's diverse talents - here even a tiny Icelandic fishing village has some very smart people with good coaching and organizational ability and people from all walks of life throw their hats in to achieve above anyone's expectations.
"The Home Game is a delightful low-budget Icelandic documentary that couldn't be further removed from the cash-rich, morally bankrupt propensities of professional soccer, and follows the tale of the reformation of a rural Icelandic village's football team, whose aim is to compete in the country's FA Cup competition on home soil for the first time in their history. Hellissandur, a remote fishing town in the West of Iceland, is home to a population of just 369 people and to the area's football team, Reynir FC....
This sleepy, rather unremarkable town is the birthplace of Kari Gylfason, a 30-something father of one, who seeks to complete what his father could not 25 years earlier when he first established the club, losing 10-0 away in their first and only FA Cup game. Kari must fashion a half-competent soccer team out of the community's willing and able-bodied — a tall order considering the limited pool of players and the extremely harsh Icelandic conditions." Review, Movieweb.com
Postscript: Reynir FC now compete in the Icelandic league system.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1wPzVNCJI