I beg to continue to differ cadre. The essence of a collective is that it is composed of "individuals who bring about various strength, expertise and abilities" towards achieving a certain objective. We therefore cannot afford to be religious with the concept of collectivism in football.
I am not necessarily furious with Mokoena for glaring mistakes he committed, but I'm just saying that he has become an undesirable liability to our national team. There r mistakes that r difficult to stomach, especially if there were costly and avoidable. If I am to apply the theory of a "reasonable man" in the case of Mokoena, I would say, given his experience, exposure to soccer at international level, his leadership responsibility and understanding of what was at stake during the Confed Cup, then he has led us down. In fact recently Mokoena has just become nothing but a liability. Teko Modise was also not at his best, but we can understand bcoz he has always been a pillar of strength in the previous games. Now, when were you last impressed with Mokoena's performance at the national team level? Booth, Masilela and Gaxa played exceptionally well in marshalling our defence, but the same cannot b said abwt our captain. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 9:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Re: bafana > Cadre in football mistakes are prone to happen it is the beauty of the game.Casting calls for mokoene to go does not assist us as a nation, as football is a collective game of players it is not an individual sport. If we were to single one player than we are losing the point of the game. Experience does not mean you do not experience new things daily.We should shoulder the perfomance of a team collective. Dankie Matla! Moleme Moleme Sure guerilla, u r definitely correct mchana. But are we saying our > country can't find a better defender to replace Mokoena? I struggle to > identify his positive contribution throughout the Confed Cup, except for > his costly mistakes. He is just a liability we can't afford to live with > as the nation. My philosophy is that there is no room for errors when > coming to some responsibilities of national importance, such as > representing the country during the international competitive > tournaments. Mokoena is an experienced defender and a soccer player who > should observe basic principles and tactics of a soccer game, such as > not committing a tackle in a dangerous area whilst you are not the last > man in defence, and also that he should have headed the ball downwards > if he was intending to score and not to defend in the game against Spain > on Sunday. We must therefore refuse to continue forgiving people for > glaring mistakes that could have been avoided. So the bottomline: > "Mokoena must go" > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mxolisi Mlatha > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Re: bafana > > > Cde Mamphekgo > > Cde Steve the revolution made me not to realise my latent > soccer talent thus denying the nation a gem (ha! ha! haa!). > On a serious note maybe Mokoena must just relinguish the > captains arm band because it could also be putting too much > pressure on him. Consequently he always try to take too > much responsibility causing "fatal" mistakes in the > process. Im prepared to concede that this was not his first > costly mistake but we must not be too punitive; because in > the same game we failed to score sitters that could have > changed the whole complexion of the history of the game > against Brazil. > > Mxolisi > --- > Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za] > > > Disclaimer:<br><br> > This message may contain confidential information and is intended only for > the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not > disseminate, > distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by > e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail > from your > system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secured or > error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, > destroyed, arrive late or > incomplete, or contain viruses. 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