In two extended radio interviews Gareth Morgan expanded on his vision for football in New Zealand and got more specific about how the governance and management of the sport has to change if it is ever going to lift itself beyond the level first reached by John Adshead’s 1982 World Cup team and emulated in 2010 by Ricki Herbert’s squad.
In essence it is the need to divide the sport in two – strategies to develop the grassroots kickaround-on-Saturday amateur community clubs, and strategies to develop the game our elite footballers from age 8 to professional mens are capable of. According to Morgan the business models for each are totally different and the current NZF governance and management structure shows it can run the former but running the elite game is beyond it.
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