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Originally Posted by Bayman
There is nothing wrong with focussing on young Brazlians instead of Chelsea's multinational approach.
Brazil = 5 times WC winner, biggest poopulation, most footballers, best football schools
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A few of your points can be questioned. Brazil, yes 5 times winners over history, yet you could say what about Italy with 3 (had it not been for the 1994 disaster it would be 4-4). Just because a team as won it in the past doesn’t mean they contain the best players for the present and future. Secondly, Brazil doesn't have the biggest population, China does by far:
Population (millions)
China 1,300
India 1,087
United States 294
Indonesia 219
Brazil 179
Pakistan 159
Russia 144
Bangladesh 141
Nigeria 137
Japan 128
Does this mean we should focus on China or India? Brazil probably has the biggest ratio of population / footballers but only due to the fact that a majority of kids want to be good enough to get out of a poverty stricken country.
I can't really comment on the best football schools, is it because of investment or just because they have very talented youngsters that go through these schools so it's just a matter of guiding them? Holland has a few good academies, with allot of investment from clubs, but they have dry spells of players when the raw talent isn’t there. You can’t school a player to be great when they don’t have the ability or potential, no matter how much teaching you throw at them.
Personally I don't think we should concentrate on a particular nation just for a few said reasons. We are an elite club in the world, we should be going after the best players no matter what their nationality, as well as concentrate on developing our own (now so more than ever due to the new rules eufa are trying to implement.) If that means Brazilian players so be it, but don't limit our options.
