Failing Academies! Change the Game!

This video concentrates on the English Football Academies and it makes you wonder why anyone bothers to make the pilgrimage over there to get into these academies. This video was made in 2007 and things are said to be improving.

The FFA's thrust through the NAtional Curriculum, NTCs and HPPs is designed to aviod the shortfalls catalogued in this video around English PL Academies.

Here are some comments made in th video and they should resonate here in  the ACT (and Australia):

• ".... they pick athletes not footballers." 
• "... Academies foster a winning culture not a delevopment culture...."
• "... watch Barcelona, I don't see a lot of athletes, but there are lots of footballers..."

Question - If the A League Clubs all get an "Academy" established, what will it's "culture" be and what will the FFA's technical influence be over them?