Widely known to have massive followers across the world, for a country, club or individual to attain success, bold steps should be taken through scouting and then nursing the realised talent.
While it is actually costly to travel all over the country in search of new talent, youth tournament particularly promotional ones like the Airtel Rising Stars or Copa-CocaCola automatically provide the perfect stage for unearthing hidden talent.
The tournaments staged on annual basis bring together huge number of boys and girls who are showcasing their talent before the public.This is an opportunity for both premiership and other division coaches to stay focused and select future stars.
Like any other sport, football stars have to be nursed at a tender age. Very surprising that most of the premiership clubs across the country lacks age-tier teams and players who would have been properly nursed to fill the void of ageing senior players of the first-choice line-ups.
It’s only few clubs like Azam, Mtibwa Sugar and to a lesser extent Mbeya City that bother to take trouble and search for talented youngsters for development.
FIFA has made it very clear at its 2007 Bagamoyo declaration that all premiership clubs should have fleet of under 17 and under 20 years players to beef up their senior squads. The system has been briefly practiced for a short spells before thrown under the carpet for good, with only few clubs embracing it.
ARS soccer is still going on across the country but it is very unlikely that there is talent scouting agents from the premiership fleet of clubs.
Club looks to have completely adopted to hire ready-made players to register for their teams and do not take trouble in scouting and nurse them properly.
Very unfortunate and highly surprising that those premiership stalwarts like Simba and Young Africans are pioneers of talent scouting and development, but nowadays have now abandoned the tradition to open room for poaching and importation of players.
Poaching and importation is temporarily useful but the actual solution to resolve poor performance is through establishment of age-tier teams.
It looks to be costly but the advantages associated with it though not instantly fetched, has long-term repercussions for established football clubs as it creates huge inventory of stars.
Fans are unhappy to have their national soccer team and clubs stumble at international platform as a result of lacking well nursed talent at club level.
The Tanzania Football Federation looks to have no long term plans to rekindle the enhancement of these under age tier teams.
Talent scouting and subsequent development has been at a very low key and lacks seriousness among many premiership clubs.
Talent is abundant among millions of youth scattered all over the country but efforts to unearth it becomes a stumbling block for no reason.
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