Robert Calderon has made it clear he was not criticising all of the Island’s soccer coaches in an article in yesterday’s Royal Gazette.

In the story, the BFA second vice-president said standards of coaching were not the same as when he played the game in the 1980s and revealed a coaching instructor was to be brought in from the UK to offer those in charge of Island clubs the opportunity to obtain the UEFA B licence.

“What I am not being critical of is coaching in general,” he said yesterday. “What I am saying is that the game itself over the last 20 to 25 years has in fact deteriorated. As a result of that I think it has affected the coaches as well.

“The players are not playing at the same standard, the coaching, quite frankly, is not where it used to be, but I am not suggesting all coaches are bad or that coaches are that bad.

“What I meant to say is that there are people doing a very fine job but I still stress the fact that through the education via the courses we feel this will improve the standard of coaching.”