Bravo, Azam club for talent scouting

The move is laudable as it opens opportunities for those selected teen players to sharpen their football skills. Very obvious that football talent is abundant across the country but scouting has not been entirely exhausted.

Though very few of the teen players have luckily got on board the Azam talent bandwagon, it is more encouraging than nothing at all.
The duty to search talent is an obligation of all soccer clubs and the football federation.

Azam, the only premiership club with sound vision of football development through scouting young players before accommodating them into their academy, has displayed the way forward in modern football.

Had the rest of premiership and first division clubs been doing what Azam are doing now, the problem of poaching players would have been completely resolved.

The talent scouting not only eases future players’ replenishment for Azam, but also extends to the national soccer team as well.

Very obvious that scouting players involve cost, but it is unavoidable if we meet to meet demands of modern football development and success.

Not that the rest of the premiership clubs are unable to follow what Azam are doing, it’s just a matter of decision and will that runs short. Otherwise, scouting would have regularly been done by all clubs though with limited dimensions based on available resources.

While we congratulate Azam for scouting of players, still we urge other football clubs in the country and academy centres to underscore the project on regular basis.

Football players groomed in academies through scouting happen to become highly successful than those poached.

Normally coaches happen to be spoilt for choice in players resulting from availability of them in tailored academies.

Clubs should know that playing football is a career and thus needs teaching of fundamentals to players at a tender age.

The standard of football in Tanzania is relatively low though the game’s fans are spread and available almost in every household. However, the degree of fanaticism outweighs the available playing level.

Mediocre shows by both clubs and the national teams at international platform has been highly frequent as a result of missing talented players.

The only way of doing away with this dismal performance is through establishment of academies where players will be nursed to learn football fundamentals.

As fans of the game, we have experienced a barrage of ‘turmoil’ enough to find the best way of halting the trend.

Football in Tanzania is plunging at incredible depths despite availability and abundance of talent as well as corporate sponsors.

It’s through teen football that will lead us towards realising our long cherished dream of rubbing shoulders with the best in the continent if not the world.

Beating around the bush and pick up players who have just managed to develop talents through their own efforts, will still keep us on the sidelines of the successful football nations.