The domestic option is likely to be strong, when the Balloliitto maps Markku Kanerva’s followers. The reason can be found simply in the player material of the A national team, writes Pekka Holopainen.
Pekka Holopainen sports reporter
The season of the A national soccer team “culminates” on Tuesday at the Olympic Stadium, whose lawn has been cared for for almost two months with piety and on a 24/7 basis, sparing no labor resources or energy.
It was supposed to be Poland and an epic direct shot at the European Championship place, but it was Estonia and with all the glory, the slowest of all time. It is impossible to understand the logic with which the umbrella organization Uefa obliges the teams to play such a travesty of a football match.
A stone’s throw away from the Olympic Stadium, in the office of the Football Association, in the near future, hopefully, intellectual challenges will be tackled more sharply than at the UEFA facilities in Nyon, Switzerland.
Finland changed caste
When the 2007 A national team in Helsinki was christened Huuhkaj, the Belgian national team, which has since become a global football power, collapsed as a byproduct.
Finland changed its caste at the lower level 12 years later by achieving its first ranking place.
At the same time, Huuhkaji faced a challenging situation in all top sports: a dream became an everyday goal. A place in the prize competition is now in the supporter cadres, if not a basic requirement, then almost. However, about half of the teams that attempt it on the basis of realism make it to the European Football Championship.
In 2016, the Pallloliitto’s harsh choice of huts ie Hans Backen to be replaced by one drawn from our own ranks Markku Kanervan there is speculation about the future when Wales in Cardiff pitifully punched through Huhkajie’s flimsy defense.
It is understandable, considering both such a long head coach season and the situation. Kanerva would have a certain suction in club circles, and Palloliito would have a natural seam to renew the manning of the command bridge of its flagship.
Primarily, a big-name silver bullet from abroad is expected. Already drifted into a siding train driver Roy Hodgson was like that in 2006-07, one goal missed in Portugal in the final game of the EC qualifiers. With his risk-taking, he returned to the big lights for almost 18 more years.
Not even in the same rain
That time is an eternity in the world’s largest and fastest developing form of sport. However, Hodgson was able to operate in Finland with player material, with whom the lion’s share of today’s A national team has not even been in the same rain, so to speak.
International football is honest to the extent that the market determines the position of players in the food chain without mercy. Nobody’s name is followed by Borussia Dortmund, Atletico Madrid…or Vålerenga Fotball or Universitatea Craiova by chance.
Finnish players this mill it has determined so that two men Of the 25, they play in the European Top5 league.
Gastrointestinal tract or work sample
The fact that the A national team, assembled from this material, is two wins away from a place in the European Championship can be considered either a terrible stomachache or a sample of the hard work of the coaching team.
If the Balloliitto thinks about its negative experiences – by Stuart Baxter and Hans Backe’s periods – despite having a foreign follower for Kanerva, it is well aware that it cannot be lifted from the number one pack and there is no room for a bread-and-butter hut.
Secondly, foreign coaches typically move in small groups, so the new man would bring 1-2 assistant coaches with him. That would be a disservice to Finnish top coaches.
I remember this name
It speaks in favor of Suomalaisvalinna that top performance from this team of players requires nearly 100% of their abilities. Only coaching, which knows the players’ abilities and limitations 100 percent, can do that. For example, they come to mind Mika Lehkosuo, Simo Valakari, Jani Danger, Toni Korkeakunnas and with certain reservations Jarkko Wiss.
This name is worth remembering: ex-captain of the A national team who trained with determination, developing in the Czech Republic Tim Sparv is a likely future head coach, but this rotation is coming too quickly.