Ba soccer president Rishi Kumar believes soccer in the country can only progress if district officials stop bringing in players from overseas for major tournaments.

Kumar said this has been a downfall, as players come from abroad and when they go back and tell their coaches the style of soccer being played in Fiji.

He said that is the reason why now team's like New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Solomons and Tahiti have started to gain the upper hand against Fiji, whom we used to thrash before.