Poll: do you prefer locals that little chance or "foreign talents" that will get us gold?
How come STTA and MCCY just don't get it? Too focused on short term KPIs?
That's the major issue.The incumbents must show immediate results.... else get no money
Just curios, why Man U can have players all over the world with England being kicks off in the 1st round, yet still many supported it. Why we can't have foreign players representing us for table tennis leh?
One is a club, one is a country. Singapore used mostly China players to win for us and hardly other countries doing that. Recent WC, Germany got foreign player in their team?
Exactly The talent system was there but got additional funding and improvements after the Euro 2004 disaster (Germany got kicked out in group phase without winning any of the three games). That's the key: government commitment and funding. One cannot find talents if it's an economical decision to do sports in a club.Actually many of the German players were once foreign nationals. But the matter is that they were very young when they immigrated (less than ten years old), and they developed their talent in the national talent system.
No.. it's the mindset of "One must make money with everything one does."One word: Sportsmanship... Something we don't have or lost it to the spirit of kiasu-ness.