I think it all starts from our thinking. Most of us aim low when we are venturing in most endeavors. This can start from improving our league standards all the way to the national level.

Turning around a team will take time and effort. Our youth teams have a lot of players that lie about their age; most of them are encouraged to do this by officials. This diminishes the international challenge that players are supposed to face in order to perform at international level.

Player’s attitude towards the game. The way they carry themselves. What makes a good player is not only the 2 hours of training but what they do for the rest of the 22hrs.

Unfortunately most sponsors are pulling out because the level is poor and it is associated with violence. 

Getting a foreign coach is only part of the solution. It has been experienced in the past that some people try to get in the way of the coach and also expect an overnight change.

What we need is a good strategic plan from the under 12 age and work with them all the way up.Thats how great football will come to pass in the warm heart of Africa.

sepu sepu 

I personnally think, The super league should be abolished.FAM should put more emphasis in developing regional leagues, like in the 80's.Lets face it, the super league is in shambles, up to now it has no sponsors and the majority of the teams in the league are facing financial difficulties, with atleast one team disbanding each season.

Here is my ideal , Lets form three regional leagues, Each of the leagues having atleast two lower divisions below them. At the end of the season , we can then have, some sort of national championship, were we can then crown the national champions. During the season  FAM can organise two or three national trophies.

why would this work?

For starter, Financially it would be easier to run.It would be cost effective for the teams, as they would be less expenses inccured from travelling e.g travel expenses, travel allowances etc

They would be a larger pool of players, to pick from, with each league having twelve teams, that would mean thirty six teams, competing at the highest level.

This would also lead to mushrooming of self sponsored team, with support from their local communities, creating an enourmous marketing opportunity

To would also lead to more companies, willing to put up sponsorship money. As the financial obligation would be less, than would be for sponsoring  super league at the moment, which at the moment is at something like 10-20 million kwacha a season, which at the moment is just unrealist and not viable for most malawian companies.

FAM should also start investing, in personnel e.g training coaches, And it not only about coaches. Let also train, people running clubs sport management, marketing and development.Lets invest in some new blood, not the same people who have been their for ages. When running coaching workshops, lets get some well known trainers , not the kaputas of this world, who frankly in there coaching careers have never done anything worth mentioning, come on its like a doctor giving his patient poison.

Lets set up programs, which can identify , talented youngstars and give them opputunities to develop e.g set up program where the can go and train in some of the world best soccer academies as some sort of internship or something, or like what that german chap hoanoer did, take them abroad to play at various international youth competitions.

Today the minister of sports has been quoted  conceeding that the Government is mainly to blame for the chaotic performance in TUNIS .To begin with there are so many sad developments that happened prior to the team departing such as players were in camp for only two weeks ,their allowances were not paid including those for a friendly game against Zimbabwe and Fam had  presented a budget of K8M only K5m was made available .The technical panel asked for a friendly game against one of the strongest team in africa the request was turned down and as such  would you expect miracles to happen?i doubt much as i want to give our team the benefit of doubt but i think the goals spoke volumes of disorganisation .First and foremost problem number one is the government is not investing enough in the soccer.

Just imagine as of today we do not have a sponsor for the current legue and yet the legue is almost half way down .Where in the world would that happen ? The policies are there infact very good ones but implementation is the problem .If you ask yourself what is it that is lacking ?it always comes back to the problem of  funds.

The coaches ,i believe we have very good local coaches in the land but one wonders whenever a foreigner comes in he is given the resources and time he needs to build the team while our local guy is left like that.When it comes to wages do not even talk about it.its obscene to compare what a foreigner earns to a local guy. Today's game requires a lot of financial expenditure and i was impressed someone pointed out  a solution of pickingplayers at the age of 12yrs and developing  them into future stars .That is a song we are  singing all the time but the problem comes back to funding who does the funding ?

Players lifestyle is also of a concern they do not work hard ,they are contented with what they have.I know a number of them and when i ask them what are your goals? They will tell you i want to play in europe and when you look at effort put into achieving the goal one only wonders .

So overall the first problem is the resources and the second being lack of sound football administration skills and finally laziness of soccer players .If these were addressed i think we should experience some changes .May the lord bless our nation.