Tactics is Key!
Finally the Word Cup has started, a breathe of relief for us all. Loads of goals, yellow cards, a lot of fouls, a few surprises from different teams and I bet it - we have not seen anything yet, time will unveil everything to us. This goes to confirm the good old popular saying that football is not mathematics. I will be looking at an area which has always been a topic of discussion among African football fans and journalists. The issue of local coaches versus the foreign expatriates or to put it in the popular African term " Technical Adviser ". I am not opening up a debate of who is better than the other - after all Yeo Martial of Ivory Coast won the 1992 edition of the African Cup of Nations hosted by Senegal against foreign coaches and Stephen Keshi of Nigeria did the same over a year ago in South African. The issue of success is not in question; but that our African coaches do not pay attention to some details that matter when preparing for games. When preparin