Kossie on Total Football
John Kosmina always speaks his mind.
Except maybe when it comes to Mark Milligan. See earlier post today.
On Harry Kewell and Mark Viduka.
Has Harry Kewell got three more years football in him.
Kozzie says, "No, I think not."
It's not a nice thought, a nice thing to have to say, but Kozzie said what everyone is now thinking.
"He's missed a lot of football in the last three years and it's very hard to come back from there."
On Viduka:
"Mark Viduka needs to make a decision. Does he play in the June qualifiers and we have to leave Josh Kennedy out?"
Kozzie is right. Let's bring Dukes home for the Cameroon game and give him a wonderful Australian send-off.
Why play Dukes in June, if he can't play in the next Qualifiers? And let's face it if we do get to the World Cup, we do not want a 34 year old Mark Viduka leading the line.
Well you might, but I don't. He's too slow for top International football now, and the World Cup is beyond him.
2 comments:
is milligan turning into a `couldabeen`? plenty of promising talent doesn`t turn out, tis the way of the world. but most promising talent don`t get a start in the socceroos in a serious tournament, and then flame out. his sydney fc form this year wasn`t exactly inspiring this year.
its a little scary, life after harry and dukes. no next harry`s or next duke`s are waiting in the wings, but heres looking forward to a smarter, mentally tougher ozzie football scene (thanks to asia). no previous olyroo group ever got to go through a challenge like qualifying through asia.
clayton
Apart from Brazil, Argentina Italy and a few others, most countries have a golden generation.
Viduka, Kewell and co were ours.
But it's not scary, though I know what you mean, I've never been so excited waiting for the China game.
Australia may not have the next Kewell, but we are going to have to be smarter and have a bigger pool of talent at the next level.
We are starting to see a broader quantity and yes perhaps a lower quality.
But fear not, Japan and Korea always struggle to produce quality strikers, with Kennedy and McDonald we are still ahead slightly.
Defenders and midfielders we can produce in sufficient quantity to qualify.
Can we make an impression in South Africa. Unlikely unless you have seom real top class strikers/playmakers. We don't have them.
Fear not Clayton for this is football finally happening in this country and Aussies are great at producing quality sports teams.
We will get it right.
We just need to produce two Vidukas and two Kewells in the next 15 years and we could rock the world!
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