We identified a very shallow player pool, a lack of pitches, inadequate coaches, and even more inadequate talent scouts as the reasons why we failed to achieve what we expected in football, and made numerical comparisons with countries that have been successful in this regard.
The Factors Behind the Debacle
Now, moving from the general to the specific, I would like to share my thoughts on the debacle we experienced at the 2026 World Cup. After the tournament ended, many people who knew of my interest in football and my past experiences asked me whether “the absence of a psychological counselor on the team had any impact on this result.” I did not respond to these questions in order to avoid speculation.
No major event occurs because of “a single reason” or because of “a reason articulated by someone no one had previously heard of.” Major events occur as a result of numerous small events that accumulate one on top of another, until the glass finally overflows. Mines explode according to this pattern, airplanes crash for reasons that fit this pattern, and patients die in emergency departments or intensive care units in ways that follow this pattern. Even a person who is electrocuted on a rain-soaked road loses their life for this reason. In short, the reason the glass overflows is not the last drop, but the fact that the glass is already full. I will now share several of the factors that, as far as I know, filled the glass.
An important factor, as many people have pointed out, was holding the training camp in Arizona. We know that adapting to temperatures above forty degrees is extremely difficult and affects the efficiency of training sessions. What should have been done was to choose a dif