Target is to win the tournament - Urbanyi

All the best to maldives national football team

We hear from repeated interviews of Istavan Urbanyi how he wants his team to play a short passing game. Well, he has been with national team since 2009 barring some months till he is recalled again. He has had enough time. He knows the players well, their strength and weakness. So it is time he showed us and to the world his passing game. It must have been drilled into their sense by now. We can’t bear to see yet another tournament where keeper take his punt or somebody from defence kick a long ball into the opposition defence thinking our forwards will do the rest. That has spoiled too many of our good chances at the final. That is not the football of 21st century. As for some big weaknesses that we must correct are : A) Our inability to pick out team-mate in the simple touch-and-go situation. ( may be our anxiety makes us too frantic in our decision-making, we keep kicking the ball as if anywhere will do) B) We don’t close down quickly enough the opponents when they are on attack. We give them too much space and time in the dangerous area of penalty area. C) Midfielders don’t release the ball to strikers at the right time or, shall we say, they hold up the ball far too long and when the make a pass it is too late for the forward to penetrate the opposition defence as the opportunity is already gone. D) Giving up hope too easily. If opposition score early in the match our players body language show up, the tell-tale signs make an appearance that the cause they are fighting for is already lost. Their shoulder droops, fall silent, make too many unforgivable mistakes. THSE MUST CHANGE…only then we can make good progress in the tournament. We hope they will do.