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It is now almost two years since the Tanzania national team coach was contracted to coach for Tanzania national team. But recently there have been different views on perfomance of the team and capability of our coach, the brazilian Marcio Maximo. Some say our team is not perfoming well and the blame has been thrown to the coach. Of course some including me still say the team is doing well and the coach Marcio is indeed still our dose for long disturbing disease in soccer i.e the lack of recognisable success in the world of football.
I do not know or even understand those who blame him. I do not know their base for the blames. What I understand is we have done well recently.
Those who say Maximo has not done anything should ask themselves; where or what are they comparing his performance with. When did we succeed and his coming has destroyed that? What tangible achievement we had that now we have lost?
I may be wrong but I like Maximo's approach in building our national team, People may differ with him or he may be different from what people want him to do, or he may be doing differently from the way other coaches that were there before him were doing. If there is any different I am happy, that is why we needed him because we want to see changes. The traditional way we used to do didn't take us anywhere let us try his now.
England blame Mcralen but they have records to compare him with, do we have that? December 2003 we were ranking 159, Kenya was 72 and Uganda was 103. Today we are ranked 103, Kenya 100, and Uganda 94, that is what I call progress. Does anybody remember when was tha last time we won outside the country in qualifiers for the cup of nations before the coming of Maximo? Does anybody remember when was the last time our national team was a scare to other teams including those from West Africa? When was the last time our team beat Zambia? Today we are proud that whenever we go to a match opponents think of us as competitors and not an easy way to wining.
People say Maximo's team is too defensive, where have you seen a person starts putting a roof on the house before foundation? Maximo uses 4-2-2-2,to me I think he is briliant on that, Giving an example of a Match with Kenya on 08/12/2007 where Tanzania won 2-1. People complain that our team did not play well, they say kenya were brilliant in passes. Passes only can not be a reason to say a team played well, ask yourself in what area were they passing, what was the direction of their passes?
During attacks to our goal (I mean our Tanzania team), our team had six (6) players defending the goal around the 18 yard area. The wall was too tight for Kenyans to penetrate, they had the take back the ball passing around to try to pull Tanzania from the defensive zone. Our team, our players, and our coach were clever enough to understand the Kenyan trick, they weren't deceived by this trick. Instead the players in attacking mid field with one attacking player dropped in the middle to fight for the ball. We had a player with speed at the front Danny Mrwanda whenever the middle succeded in taking the ball from kenyans they gave to Mrwanda who with his speed, power and control gave hard time the Kenyan defence. Tanzania used long passes to reach Kenyan Goal, and whenever we were in the attacking zone we had four players.
If you want to judge a team use the match analysis method; How many times that team has shot on goal, how many times have they entered into the 18 yard, How many passes were lost in the middle? And more questions of that nature, then you will be able to say which team was the best.
At the end the team with the best strategy and tactics wins, and the winner is the winner.
I do not know or even understand those who blame him. I do not know their base for the blames. What I understand is we have done well recently.
Those who say Maximo has not done anything should ask themselves; where or what are they comparing his performance with. When did we succeed and his coming has destroyed that? What tangible achievement we had that now we have lost?
I may be wrong but I like Maximo's approach in building our national team, People may differ with him or he may be different from what people want him to do, or he may be doing differently from the way other coaches that were there before him were doing. If there is any different I am happy, that is why we needed him because we want to see changes. The traditional way we used to do didn't take us anywhere let us try his now.
England blame Mcralen but they have records to compare him with, do we have that? December 2003 we were ranking 159, Kenya was 72 and Uganda was 103. Today we are ranked 103, Kenya 100, and Uganda 94, that is what I call progress. Does anybody remember when was tha last time we won outside the country in qualifiers for the cup of nations before the coming of Maximo? Does anybody remember when was the last time our national team was a scare to other teams including those from West Africa? When was the last time our team beat Zambia? Today we are proud that whenever we go to a match opponents think of us as competitors and not an easy way to wining.
People say Maximo's team is too defensive, where have you seen a person starts putting a roof on the house before foundation? Maximo uses 4-2-2-2,to me I think he is briliant on that, Giving an example of a Match with Kenya on 08/12/2007 where Tanzania won 2-1. People complain that our team did not play well, they say kenya were brilliant in passes. Passes only can not be a reason to say a team played well, ask yourself in what area were they passing, what was the direction of their passes?
During attacks to our goal (I mean our Tanzania team), our team had six (6) players defending the goal around the 18 yard area. The wall was too tight for Kenyans to penetrate, they had the take back the ball passing around to try to pull Tanzania from the defensive zone. Our team, our players, and our coach were clever enough to understand the Kenyan trick, they weren't deceived by this trick. Instead the players in attacking mid field with one attacking player dropped in the middle to fight for the ball. We had a player with speed at the front Danny Mrwanda whenever the middle succeded in taking the ball from kenyans they gave to Mrwanda who with his speed, power and control gave hard time the Kenyan defence. Tanzania used long passes to reach Kenyan Goal, and whenever we were in the attacking zone we had four players.
If you want to judge a team use the match analysis method; How many times that team has shot on goal, how many times have they entered into the 18 yard, How many passes were lost in the middle? And more questions of that nature, then you will be able to say which team was the best.
At the end the team with the best strategy and tactics wins, and the winner is the winner.
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