JAMAICA HAUNTED USA AT GOLD CUP FINAL… JULY 26. 2017
It was supposed to be the other way around well before the 88th minute. But could Bruce Arena’s ribbing comment about his feeling wheezy due to the advance of Jamaica to the CONCACAF Gold Cup final had something to do with it?
No, certainly not, but such ill-advised public expression will only bring out the patriotism and fierceness in the underdog, and will also brings out the otherwise silent observers who know that the US team was underprepared for the fight and lacked, like the Jamaicans, the information to produce high performance soccer/football in such a highly competitive environment. But it produced a great football game, long to be remembered by the Jamaicans and the US team, who got a feel of Bull Run and the Alamo together in one hell of a fight… never before seen between two friends.
The score was 2-1 in favor of the USA, but Jamaica won the moral victory, getting a couple of messy fingers on the flag pole of their favorite neighbor.
Should either team had the opportunity to be schooled by the Whisperer 100 Principles, the score margin would have been much wider, with the game outcome more likely to be in favor of the Jamaicans… with speed being the deciding factor.
They made no pretense about their ability or collective intelligence in attack, but instead defended their goal line, with a minimum of eight stone hearted individual talents, mostly instinctive, reactive but always courageous… with goalkeepers in the mold of the heroic Selwyn Murphy and Larry Constantine, pass Jamaican goalkeepers, the current Jamaican Goalkeeper is in the top 5 in the world. This is easier to emphasize when your team is the upstart that is FIFA ranked above 50.
The US played a more complex and slightly better organized traditional team game, but the JamaicanS replied with eleven individual contributors that were not embarrassed by their own series of unforced errors, as they sought to stay behind the ball, chase all day and late into the night; win it, give it back before the opponents were ready for it, chase again and win it again… doggedly.
This kind of mentality working for an entire half, build the euphoric mentality of greatness in the so called minnows…that is dangerous as the big team loses faith especially when they are also underprepared and in a strange game that creates an environment that they or their coaches are confounded by. What are they doing.., giving us back the ball when we are all out of position, to prove we can’t score?
The Whisperer’s own high performance information deficit analysis found both teams and many of the top teams around Europe, to be constantly in gross violation of dozens of the high performance principles identified by the Whisperer in the first unedited version edition of the book, “100 Principles for High Performance Soccer Football club Development Leadership and Quality Control”.
The Whisperer’s list of areas in which teams are sadly underserved in high performance information and the discipline it demands, is way too long… construction and receptions of attacking corners and throws, disuse of the flanks by failing to go for the goal line, insistence on fake formations, lack of three-sixty degrees awareness, consistent center of mass violations, unsafe-zone violation habit, nanoseconds absorption malaise, frequent tactile miss-calibration, senior players with under-developed skill fixation, non-option maintenance running, non-assistive controllable passing, low situational exploitation awareness, heading without purpose….
Could the absence a (Whisperer) Individual Player Qualitative Performance Assessment and Feedback Tool be the cause of all these oddities re-appearing at the professional level?.
This story can be further developed from any one game at any level, and will continue as the damming evidence mounts with the lack of collective intelligence i and advantageous reciprocation in team play, the lack of interested third party and back stopping support, over technical playing, running or dribbling away from viable options, failure to take the golden tap-in options, shooting into the obvious block, stopping forward motion on the non-kicking foot to kick at a running ball from behind, inability to slam grounders from the sitting or rolling ball, lack of bi-lateral competence, failure to pass, turning away from the sighted scanner in the attacking third who has a panoramic view of the goal area, the opposite flank and a viable plan, ignoring the viable one-on-one flank option to attack the center of mass to give away the ball in the process, defenders facilitating off-siding attackers, handling the opponent shoulder to no advantage, oblivious of impending shoulder charges about to be fairly applied…
These are only a few of the deterrence to good soccer/football, that club leaders should be aware of. If no one is viewing the game for these high performance violations, we will continue to develop great players, big fights and less team work.
So Club Leaders, will you go to my website and get the 100 Principles now, or should I continue alone to watch and cringe, while so many are celebrating the results gained from what is mostly the opponents lack of high-performance information, mis-informed, unsustainable, individual player dice rolling?
Eric U. Williams MEd, B.Sc., TT, SFW
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