Women’s soccer coach fined for tardiness
Elizabeth Loisel, the head coach of China’s women football team was fined for tardiness.
I first heard this piece of news several days ago on TV. I think this is a good start. China’s national teams tend to prefer foreign coaches. It seems that foreigners know us better than ourselves. That’s ridiculous of course. But maybe they are more experienced, or they have more advanced training methods. And that’s the main reason why we spend so much money hiring foreign coaches. Foreigners tend to have more privileges than we original Chinese in China. This has become a tradition. And just because of that many foreigne coaches are spoiled. They think they can do whatever they want, however they want it. And we used to endure them for a long time. But what did we get? Maybe a little better scores, a little higher ranks, but we never got what we expected. Of course this is not all the coaches’ fault. We have problems too. A big one is, I think, we don’t give them enough time. Usually before they are hired a goal is set for them in a limited period of time. And if they can’t reach that goal within that time which is uaually quite short, they will be fired. I don’t think that’s the right way of doing things. When it comes to training a team, it takes time. How can we expect those coaches to achieve something amazing if we don’t give them enough time? That’s our part of fault. Back to the foreign coaches, they have to be clear about what their job is, and work hard for their goal. Not everyone is like Ms Loisel, but obviously her behavior represents some of the problems of the foreign coaches in China.
I support the team’s decision. It is time to let those coaches know what is discipline.