Shek Borkowski Official Website | LTA Agency » Winners http://shekborkowski.com Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:50:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 FIFA demonstrates its ignorance of women’s football http://shekborkowski.com/2009/12/fifa-demonstrates-its-ignorance-and-possible-contempt-for-womens-football/ http://shekborkowski.com/2009/12/fifa-demonstrates-its-ignorance-and-possible-contempt-for-womens-football/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:22:25 +0000 publisher http://shekborkowski.com/?p=283 Doing little research and demonstrating its ignorance of women’s football, FIFA announced a list of 5 contenders for this year’s FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year award.
The list clearly demonstrates the influence that Marta’s and Cristiane’s agent Fabiano Farah has in the halls of FIFA, and how little national team coaches participating in voting are aware of.
The list includes Cristiane (Brazil), Inka Grings (Germany), Marta (Brazil), Birgit Prinz (Germany), and Kelly Smith (England).
One could put Marta on the list for sentimental reasons or because Marta is an exciting player but the fact that Cristiane had a mediocre season with her club and played no games with Brazil speaks for itself. Prinz won the Euros but was at best average domestically. Kelly Smith is one of the greatest women’s players ever, but time and injuries have diminished her influence on the game. She still was one of England’s key players during their successful Euro run but her club form was hampered by injuries.
So the Euro champion and top scorer, and the UEFA Champions League winner Inka Grings should win the award but what about other players who should have been on the list if FIFA did their due diligence?

Genoveva Anonman

Genoveva Anonman

Three players come to mind right away.
Christie Rampone is the Franco Baresi of women’s football. She led her club to WPS title and anyone doubting her experience, leadership and her importance to her national team and her club is not following the game.
Linda Bresonik. Everyone who knows me knows that I am a big fan of Bresonik. For me she is a complete player who can play in any position and and is a winner everywhere she goes. Like Grings, Bresonik is another Euro and the UEFA Women’s Champions League winner.
Genoveva Anonman, the Equatorial Guinea captain, who in 2008 single-handed won the African title for her country, saved FF USV Jena from relegation and very simply is the best African player at the moment.

]]> http://shekborkowski.com/2009/12/fifa-demonstrates-its-ignorance-and-possible-contempt-for-womens-football/feed/ 2 Winners http://shekborkowski.com/2009/12/winners/ http://shekborkowski.com/2009/12/winners/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:51:07 +0000 publisher http://shekborkowski.com/?p=276 I want to win every match I coach and I go into every match believing that as long as my players perform the way I prepare them, we will win every match.
Its immaterial if we play USA, Germany, Brazil or a pre-season friendly, I want my players to win and I believe that we can win.
But there is a massive gap between being good or even a very good player and being a winner.
Winning is a mental state, not a physical skill.
A winner is a player who knows how to and who competes every minute of every training session and every match.
She never accepts defeat and is always ready to do whatever is necessary to come out as a winner. Whether its a 1v1 training exercise or 1v1 duel against Brazil’s Marta, a winner looks to compete against, and beat any and every opponent.
She may know that she can’t win every time, but she always has the belief and always competes.
A winner is not interested in having the most glamorous role or in just scoring goals, she is content with a role that helps her team to win. She might not be the most talented but she is the most committed.
Winners are risk takers and are not content in just surviving in comfort zones.
Winning is not easy; it requires commitment and sacrifice.
As we are building a Zvezda team which will compete against every and any opponent, Stanislav Kharitonov and I are looking for players with determination to succeed at any price. We are looking for players who want to win every title in Russia and who want to win it all in Europe. We are looking for players who will outwork all opponents, who want to play against the best in the world…and defeat them all.
Defeating them not only on a scoreboard but in every individual duel and every tackle, defeating them with quality passing and quality play. There is no feeling like it.
With 5 weeks till pre-season Stanislav, Anton and I are scouring the globe for winners. You may not have heard of some or all of them but soon you will.

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