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Goal 2010 It's October 16 2009, the night wind is still and traffic along Orchard Rd has come to has standstill. Car horns are blaring and no one actually is driving. Young men are standing on their cars, fathers carrying kids on their shoulders, girls are taking their tops off. The noise is deafening and the island is covered in a sea of red and white. WE DID IT !!! Singapore has qualified for world cup in 2010 in South Africa....everyone has gone berserk. Well rewind the tape. Can we do it? Will scenes of unbridled joy so often seen in Paris, Rio and Istanbul ever visit our shores? Maybe. Maybe not. But it's game on and there is no turning back. There is a lot of work still to be done. There is also, I must add no where near the kind of belief required to pull off the damn thing. The skeptics are having a field day and justifiably so. The FAS is still a poorly run organization cursed with an unfair amount of internal squabbling and politics. Grassroots efforts are not paying off and there is even talk off importing foreign talent to accomplish the feat. The focus is missing and the finger pointing, plentiful. A worrying fact is the players who, between the ages of 16-20 now are displaying an indifference that is shocking. Everyone is doing all they can to help the country get into World Cup finals and  yet these players are lazy and not quite bothered. The Lion City Cup team though physically superior to previous years teams , still do not possess the amount of technical skill and mental capacity required to become world class exponents of the game. We feel a football academy needs to be set up. The best footballers upwards of age 14 will have to be pulled out from schools and pulled into the football academy. Students will be encouraged to live on location. They will have training in the morning from 7-9.Short break ,shower and a meal before classes from 10-12.30 .Lunch rest till 2 .Followed by more classes till 5 and then training in the evening. This ensures a regimented program for studies and football whereby a balance can be achieved. Far too often when a player concentrates on schoolwork, his studies suffer and vice versa. This system hopefully will correct the imbalance. A point on foreign imports. We point to the French and its use of imports.Bullshit they are French citizens of immigrant parents. They were schooled in the French system. If they poached talent straight off then Why isn't Algeria (Zidane's background0 or Guadeloupe (Thuram) footballing powers? Think again before we pick. Finally getting on the world stage will be immense. With a huge global audience everyone will know a little bit more about Singapore. I remember as a boy pulling out the atlas to find out where Cameroon was and looking up the capital of Paraguay. Football has that much power to educate. My European geography is based around European football leagues and not textbooks. So Just imagine.......