Coach Zaenal Abidin: Talent Scoutting Based on criteria, not Tastes

Coach Zaenal Abidin: Talent Scoutting Based on criteria, not Tastes

A coach and a talent scout equally has the task of assessing the players. But, unlike you know how to coach and scout in the selection of players.

Zaenal Zapello Abidin, who previously coached Persita Tangerang, Persiwa Wamena, and U-14, believed to be a talent scout in the event CLEAR Come on! Indonesia Could Academy 2015. He collaborated with former national team player, Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto.

Zaenal and Kurniawan will visit six cities are home to stage selection round province. Two cities have held a selection, the Banda Aceh and Jakarta. Selection will continue to Bandung, Semarang, Malang, and last Jayapura.

Zaenal and Kurniawan get a task to choose the 11 best players in the arena CLEAR Come on! Indonesia Could Academy 2015. The best players that will be trained at Manchester United Soccer Schools in the UK in May.

With his experience as a coach, choosing and selecting a player is not a stranger to Zaenal. But, when sitting as a talent scout, how to determine the selection of players is very different than when a coach.

When I became a coach, he will pick players who fit his taste. Players that she wears is a player who felt able to apply the philosophy of the game in the top lapanan.

"We're here is not a matter of taste. So be careful between talent scout and coach. That's different," said Zaenal in conversation with detikSport in Soemantri Brodjonegoro, Kuningan, South Jakarta, Sunday (03/12/2015)."If the coach choose the players to taste. If the talent scout choose the appropriate criteria for existing players. You should be able to distinguish between us as a club coach or team with us as a talent scout," he added.

"If it depends on the philosophy that the coach wanted him to wake up, for example, selecting a fast player of all. If such thoughts in me could affect the assessment. I should not think about going to make the team. That's the danger," said the man was 44 years old.

In selecting players in the arena CLEAR Come on! Indonesia Could Academy in 2015, Zaenal noticed four main things, namely engineering, individual skills, conditioning, and psychology.

"In the assessment points, right there all. Determination how, how his attitude, all there. It was already described the characteristics of the player, both tactical, technical, fitness, psychology," said Zaenal.