A Lesson From World Cup.

Africa needs money, less corruption and sober heads. They need to trust themselves and their own.

There is no doubt about talent of footballers from the African continent. Not only because of the known exploits of famous players like George Weah, Abedi Pele, Bruce Grobelaar, JJ Okocha,Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba or Michael Essien among others.

Ghana just showed strides that Africa had taken in the development of their natural talent. It was just a hint of the continent's potential. Europeans clubs have been able to pick and nurture these 'diamonds' to club masterpieces. African associations have always wrongly thought one star makes galaxy. As soon as one player gets stardom status, they sit back and point at him as an example of 'their' hard work, just making an excuse to squander development funds.

Algeria and South Africa were unlucky not go further in the World Cup. Ivory Coast's lucky was summed up by the draw with Brazil and Portugal, as if the previous group of death in 2006 was not enough. They had good passing matches, winning balls in essential areas and tracking down opponents really well. The hosts showed how easily they lost shape in short spaces of time. This shows how constantly the need coaching and have the tactics engraved in their brains. Their shape was always fragile. Nigeria and Cameroon were unfortunately laden with dinosaurs drowning in their fatal egos.

I must say that Algeria had a local coach and he showed he is capable. The rest of the continent must follow suit. We have been to all football coaching courses in the world excelling and getting better examination marks than our continental counterparts and it is time we put our knowledge to use.

Usually the problem about local coaches is poverty. Corrupt African Administrators pick up a hungry guy off the streets and pay him peanuts. High earning professionals see through this and actually ridicule the poor guy, and then the associations make last-minute exorbitant deals with coaches from Europe or South America for even worse results, whichever way you look at it. I hope the tendency changes now and the monies are channelled to youth development.

Africa needs money for academies to develop players in our own way to impose our style on the world stage. Coaches need the money to mould these players who become late developers and yet still go to Europe and excel. African coaches have to be paid huge sums expatriate coaches receive. We need African excellence to manifest in 2014 in Brazil, not another disappearance act seen after Cameroon's Italia '90 exploits or Senegal in Japan/Korea 2002.

Asia Needs More Exposure.

Asia made great strides in their football development. They are well organised and have less corrupt associations and Confederation compared to Africa. They are a passionate people who work together. The rise of the Koreans and Japanese shows a significant improvement in all aspects of their game. Most players ply their trade in the J-League in Japan.

The Japanese benefited from the Brazilians who have been in Japan as players and coaches. Brazil has some significant Japanese community and therefore, there has been several cultural exchanges as well. This also led to a lot of Japanese youngsters going to Brazil and training under the expert coaches and coming back to Asia to influence the game. This benefited them a lot and hence their neighbours as well. Asians' determination is something Africans can take and embrace to be a step ahead of where they are now.

South America Needs More Cash.

There is no doubt about talent and organisation of Central and South Americans. With more cash for their leagues there would no stopping of these guys on the pitch. The less money has seen an exodus of players to the European leagues. Brazil and Argentina lose their best players to the English Premiership, La Liga or Bundesliga. They have to live and make good money. This has killed the flair of their style. European football is more direct and disciplined. In European clubs, the influence of European football filters into the Americans and dilutes their performances significantly.

It is obvious that sometimes players struggle with Europeans styles sometimes and you will remember Robinho had to go back to revitalise his touch at Santos in Brazil from Manchester City. Ronaldo is also enjoying his stay in Brazil. When these guys have made enough money, they go back home to enjoy the real thing.

Europe Needs Talent.

There is no doubt here about the quality of organisation and sponsorship. By comparison, there is less natural talent but excellent discipline and huge money. This has made Europe a dominant continent in footballing terms for a long time, and surely for a long time to come.

Europeans are less corrupt when it comes to money matters. It can be argued that they don't need to be greedy because they have smaller exclusive families to cater for. Credit should be given to their attitudes because while all else take football as a game, as sport, it is big business in Europe. As a result, they attract lots of talented players from everywhere. This has increased the level of competition in the European leagues but it has taken away the essential match practise the average European player needs.

Maybe the FIFA should take all the monies of all Leagues and rich teams and distribute it equally to all clubs of the world. Then all players will earn the same in their own countries. What do you think?