in the game of football, FIFA has more than 300 million players in 2012, most of the men and boys, but a growing number of women. Despite this, there are few internationally known Indonesian players.
At the end of 2012, The Guardian newspaper in the UK conducted a survey of eleven of the best sports journalists to find the top 100 players currently playing in the world. Although they came from all continents, all played in Europe and South America. Lionel Messi was voted unanimously No. 1 in the world for the fourth year, with Christiano Ronaldo coming second.
There are no Indonesian player in the current list of top 100
The best Indonesian players on the world stage were all Dutch nationals original mixed Dutch Moluccas. The best was Giovanni Christiaan van Bronchhorst which won many trophies and earned 100 caps for the Dutch national team captain for two years before his retirement in 2010. Others include Piere van Hooijndonk (46 caps) and Simon Tahamata ( 22 caps).
Messi, his former manager of Barcelona, Pep Guardiola, said. "It's hard to find enough superlatives for him He can do everything :. Check the play, slow down, the accelerate and above earn "He told everyone to just enjoy," Do not write about him. Look at the! "
" I do not even want to look for someone else to him, "once said Xavi Hernández. "Because it's not fair. - On them "
Today, the best in the world when in their twenties and thirties will be found to play in a major league in Europe and South America, where a rule of thumb most of the top talent in the world end. This is due to the global reach of modern screening networks which means undiscovered in remote corners gems world Cup are rarer than ever.
Canggu ClubBali hosted football tournaments for each of the past four years, driven by scouts from Real Madrid. Nobody has been playing for a European or Asian top side.
it will come.
Franco Caboni, a Dutch citizen of Italian origin, has just completed a stay in the district of Lovina, Buleleng, help the Indonesian coach Agus, a mixed side the school to pick up the pace of training in this tub football.
It speaks well of some of the talent that he found there. "Who knows where they may end up with the encouragement of a good coach and pride of playing in a winning team," he said.
Franco was on a short visit with his wife, Poppy, when he took an interest in the local team sponsored by John and Suzie Hotel Melamun (meaning "waking dream") where he was staying. the team all-boy was a ragtail and bobtail players aged six 12. in the space of less than a month, a part of this motley crew, who took part in four training sessions per week for two hours each, went on to be fourth in the Buleleng College (SD level 3) competition of the league held in mid-February this year.
most of their village Banyualit, located in the hills of Lovina, turned to see them play in their colors of the chosen team, also the colors of the Dutch national team orange and black to play in the competition. The best 44 boys now associated with the club were on the ground at this knockout competition three days. Their head coach Agus, only 22 himself, playing a local side that was as far as Singapore to play in football competitions. Lovina his side won this international football competition.
Perhaps in the next decade, there will be a Made, Wayan and Nyoman play for the Indonesian national team, who was trained in his youth by a fanatic Italian / Dutch football.
Now, it would be worth talking about and write about.