ROB Sherman stepped in to take football over the top.
Instead, the FFA got him to step down.
And now he is in the company of over a few dozen coaches who didn’t fit the establishment’s demands.
Sherman, like most others before him came in with a huge credential, described as highly respected in football and coaching education globally.
He has been the technical director of the Welsh, New Zealand, and Australian FAs, and helped deliver coach education programmes for Oceania Football Federation.
And as a former professional footballer, he is abreast with knowledge of the sport.
To peg the learned as a failure and paint the many foreigners who coached the national teams with the same brush raises the intellect of the benighted people.
If anything, it’s the lack of real-time football development, identification of elite talent and training that is impeding success regionally and internationally.
Fiji simply lacks the building blocks of football ground up.
Under led
President Rajesh Patel believes he’s celebrated for moving the sport forward but fails to realize that failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
Patel continues to mirror a set pattern, which is every time the national men’s teams gets humiliated or under performs the coach faces the axe and it has been an ongoing trend.
The most a head coach lasts in Fiji is less than 3-years.
The thought among football know-how is that the country isn’t going anywhere under Patel, and no matter how much he brags about the development, and rolls out changes the results tell a story.
And as long as FIFA funds in the millions and the money made through tournaments and sponsorships life’s good for the hierarchy.
For FFA, habits are hard to break, bad habits that are, and Sherman isn’t the last to greet the revolving door.
Every head coach will be made to look bad as history keeps repeating itself.
