With soccer on hold, Ballarat City National Premier League coach James Robinson says now is the time for leaders of the game to come together to make it the best it can be.
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Questions were raised over the state of the game this week, with a handful of Australian soccer greats calling for drastic change at a junior and professional level.
In a Facebook live chat, former Socceroo players Mark Schwarzer, Mark Viduka, John Aloisi, Craig Moore, Josip Skoko, and Vince Grella agreed Football Federation Australia hasn't done enough to capitalise and grow the sport.
They expressed concerns the game had 'gone nowhere' in the last decade, and highlighted a disconnect between the FFA and lower division clubs.
Robinson said the game needed it be streamlined at a regional, state and national level.
"Everything is at a standstill now, so what that allows is for everybody to reassess how everything is going," he said.
"On a national level, there has been a lot of questions asked from a structure standpoint. I think nationally it's been challenging how we develop, and I think it's at a pivotal point."
The discussion followed calls from Australian Association of Football Clubs chairman Nick Galatas to use the coronavirus pandemic as a chance to implement a fully integrated pyramid system at state and national levels.
Galatas is part of the FFA's steering committee charged with creating the platform for a national second division. Robinson expressed a desire to grow Ballarat City to a point where it could compete in such a competition, should it become a reality.
Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, Robinson outlined plans to transform Ballarat City into a development hub for Western Victoria so players no longer had to travel to Melbourne to play at a high level.
"There is no ceiling in this region, the potential is really there both male and female," he said.
"I think with the infrastructure we have in this region, it's within our power to become a youth development hub that supports all facets of the game."
After showing promise at the tail-end of the 2019, Ballarat City primed for a fresh start in the newly-formed NPL3 competition in 2020.
"We'd improved, and it was really exciting because we knew how well we had connected during preseason," Robinson said.