An election that may do harm to the game.

The level of awareness one needs to have and be prepared when flicking through a television channel or radio station to listen and watch football news and talk shows needs to be high. There are far too many reporters, journalists, former players and pundit who give out opinions and points of view on the game that when touching down anywhere in the Americas, perspectives are all-important.

This personifies on a social context, discontent yet and array of personal will to progress despite the circumstance in just about every conversation, there is a direct and indirect reference to the game. Remember it is on the foot of the Andes where the largest concentration of the nation's population resides.

It is from this central valley where many home-grown footballers ply their trade in the domestic competition, across other leagues in the continent, Europe and beyond, including the A-League. It may well be ironically, that mining gold field without any rescue attempts however from those at the bottom of the pyramid.

Whether or not our local Australian game can continue improving with the ball playing along the ground is not only a matter of time, of coaching, development, transparent and professional administration but also of exposure, of accessibility to where the game is truly lived and breathed. It is not a case of showcasing egos, it has nothing to do with that.

When a footballer, or anyone related to the game knows what to do, with confidence, with experience and without any hesitation, nobody will take your place. This well is the case in Chilean football, where the British first began to nurture the modern game on the along the hills of the seaside port by the Pacific, in Valparaíso.

For instance, its FA president Harold Mayne-Nicholls whom visited Australia as a FIFA delegate for the 2018-2022 World Cup bids may step down next month in November if he does not become re-elected. He undoubtedly has left difficult shoes to fill, highlighted with the snapping of Marcelo Bielsa as head coach of the national team, reinstating pride and satisfaction to the football fraternity as well - to its detractors not to mention. The structure was reformed and today only remains dedicated working under contract with the first team squad, leaving aside a path of work to continue in the national youth team setup.

La Tercera, one of the two main prestigious newspaper tabloids (once a broadsheet) covered on its Sunday lift-out last week an extensive and personal interview with Manuel Pellegrini, predicted by many insiders in the football circle and followers alike to be the next successor to the nation's top job. The former Real Madrid tactician whom ended the 2009-10 season with 99 points and the inevitable dressing-room control of Raul's dominance within the squad mentioned why he has opted to take a break after ten years abroad. The highlight of the article epitomised the importance in valuing homegrown talent and the importance of placing one first above anybody else, in a collective sense and not individually therefore, as a nation.

"If we export wine, fruit and fish, and we can compete with anyone, football must be targeted to high-level objectives." The article not only featured in-depth conclusions to the process that began after Germany's 2006 World Cup onto South Africa however onto long-term ambitions, about humility and how certain talented, potential, larger-than-life characters end up ignored and left aside.

His lament was how the late Fernando Riera, head coach of their historical third-placed national side of 1962 World Cup took on challenges abroad, in Europe to nurture training methodologies to bring back home. His CV was impressive and of the same possessional-play in midfield to contain and control game play, the way FC Barcelona instills along the ground and how Spain conquered in South Africa this year.

Insiders criticised how nobody defeated Spain (excepted Switzerland) yet on the other hand, the unnecessary downplayed hype around a World Cup, apart from prize money to each respective football governing body, is a factor as a result of defeat, that Marcelo Bielsa had assumed and overcome prior to experiencing a World Cup as a coach. How nobody else played worse, tactically or defensively parking the bus as the current World Cup champions is a point to reflect upon, analyse.

As the Asian Cup looms for the Socceroos, Conmebol hosts the Copa America on FIFA's continental calendar next year. Argentina showcases the tournament and it shall provide and up-to-date overview of the state of the game on this side of the world.

It would be an obsequious task for an FFA coaching staff, scout to fly over to Buenos Aires and witness the tournament first-hand.

Aurelio Vidmar is a precise character and position to do this potential task or at least, assign somebody who has already done the job like former Socceroo Andy Bernal and Ron Smith to do it. 

Personally, there is good news on this other side of the Pacific as I shall continue to type up for Goal Weekly for its football readers in Melbourne and across the country.

As for now,

Nos vemos (see you) from Viña del Mar.