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Cahill lambasts Australian football body for lack of vision
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SOCCEROO star Tim Cahill has blasted Football Federation Australia for its lack of vision towards the A-League competition as he searches for a new club.
Cahill was released by Shanghai Greenland Shenhua this week, just three months into his new contract. The former Everton and New York Red Bulls star, 36, said he has not closed the door on a return to Australia, but was deeply critical of the FFA’s failure to capitalize on past opportunities to advance its domestic competition.
“I’ve seen the record with short-term goals of going back to the A-League and the destruction that it’s had on top (Australian) players’ careers who have come back to finish there,” he told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper yesterday.
“A guest stint for anyone can only harm you and coming back without any sort of plan and substance is always a recipe for disaster.”
He said he also had real concerns about how the competition had failed to make the most of its past marquee stars Alessandro Del Piero, Shinji Ono and Dwight Yorke.
“Del Piero was one of the biggest things to ever happen to the (local) game, but also the worst because it wasn’t capitalized on,” he said of the former Juventus striker’s two seasons with Sydney FC. “Then to have all these players that have been linked with the A-League — Andrea Pirlo, Frank Lampard — I don’t think the talks even get to the table because there’s no vision behind the talks.”
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