Coching is not a job for everyone, indeed I would say just for a few.You are the first to pay when things go wrong and the last to collect when things go well. To the good ones they say that they affect at most twenty percent on the performance of a team. It is undoubtedly stuff for single men, because you have to choose and when you choose you inevitably end up disappointing someone, so you also need to know how to say no when the time is right, and this, in football as in life, few know how to do it; probably only real men.
The ranking you will read will probably not agree with anyone. In fact, there are too many excellent names left excluded from this Top Ten, but those that exist are indisputable. There are those who have won more than all, there are those who invented football or even football in some cases. ThereWe are certainly talking about 10 coaches who for one reason or another will never be forgotten by anyone.
Guardiola
He is already in this Top Ten too, and it could not be otherwise given that we are talking about the prophet who led to the most advanced stage – according to some the final – total football. The Catalan’s game is hellish and scientific at the same time, but not as spectacular as the average fan thinks. In fact, we are talking about an obsessive game, based on continuous ball possession and on the elimination of key principles of football such as cross and center forward, even if in his parenthesis at Bayern he has shown second thoughts in recent years, and thank goodness … Pep Guardiola belongs to the category of fundamentalists, but unlike others he knows how to renew himself and find alternatives. But he too, like all fundamentalists, would like to eliminate that component of randomness present in football as in all things in life, but unfortunately for him and luckily for the others, this is impossible. The man seems peaceful and calm, it seems … because in reality he is not at all, since we are talking about a guy who, if murder were legal, would devote himself to the study of it, if not also to the practice; just look at those small and sharp eyes to understand what he’s made of. But beyond this we are in the presence of the coach who is opening new frontiers also to individual technique and above all to the game without the ball. If he does not fall into the cult of himself like his other colleagues, then he can continue for a few more years, but not for too long, because fundamentalists like him always empty themselves in the end. because in reality it is not at all, since we are talking about a guy who if murder were legal, would devote himself to the study of it, if not also to the practice; just look at those small and sharp eyes to understand what he’s made of. But beyond this we are in the presence of the coach who is opening new frontiers also to individual technique and above all to the game without the ball. If he does not fall into the cult of himself like his other colleagues, then he can continue for a few more years, but not for too long, because fundamentalists like him always empty themselves in the end. because in reality it is not at all, since we are talking about a guy who if murder were legal, would devote himself to the study of it, if not also to the practice; just look at those small and sharp eyes to understand what he’s made of. But beyond this we are in the presence of the coach who is opening new frontiers also to individual technique and above all to the game without the ball. If he does not fall into the cult of himself like his other colleagues, then he can continue for a few more years, but not for too long, because fundamentalists like him always empty themselves in the end. But beyond this we are in the presence of the coach who is opening new frontiers also to individual technique and above all to the game without the ball. If he does not fall into the cult of himself like his other colleagues, then he can continue for a few more years, but not for too long, because fundamentalists like him always empty themselves in the end. But beyond this we are in the presence of the coach who is opening new frontiers also to individual technique and above all to the game without the ball. If he does not fall into the cult of himself like his other colleagues, then he can continue for a few more years, but not for too long, because fundamentalists like him always empty themselves in the end.
Bags
According to UEFA, his Milan are the best team ever, and that can be there. According to him, the best coach ever was … just him. Arrigo Sacchi from Fusignano, has never sinned of low self-esteem, quite the contrary. When he arrived at the Rossoneri, the reporters pointed out that he had not been a professional footballer and he replied by saying: “I didn’t know that to be a good jockey, you must first have been a horse”, a brilliant but questionable answer. Many things can be said about Sacchi, but we can never forget that he was the one who changed the mentality of Italian football forever, introducing a spectacular and maniacal variant of that total football to which our stadiums have always they had barred the access turnstiles. He has always preferred the score (ie himself) to the performers, and this in some cases has led him to have frictions with types like Baggio and Van Basten. His strength coincided with his limit, namely in being an integralist fanatic of details, a characteristic that led him to burn all his talent as a visionary coach in a single blaze of glory. However, Sacchi remains beyond everything, the one who has shown that even in Italy it is possible to make a show, incredible but true. one flash of glory all his talent as a visionary coach. However, Sacchi remains beyond everything, the one who has shown that even in Italy it is possible to make a show, incredible but true. one flash of glory all his talent as a visionary coach. However, Sacchi remains beyond everything, the one who has shown that even in Italy it is possible to make a show, incredible but true.
Lattek
Obviously he could not miss this special ranking. In fact, we are talking about the most successful coach in the history of German football, with 15 trophies. The first ever to win all three European cups, but with a further record, namely that of having won them with three different teams: Bayern (Champions Cup), Barcelona (Cup Winners’ Cup) and Borussia Monchengladbach (UEFA Cup) . Udo Lattek as well as a winner of race, was also a charismatic who knew how to put pressure on his opponents and the referees, almost a Mourinho ante litteram, but with a much more convincing game than that expressed by the Portuguese. He was undoubtedly the most important coach in the history of Germany, also by virtue of the fact that his first Bayern European champion, constituted the backbone of the national team that was able to prevail in the World Cup final against Rinus Michels’ most popular A Clockwork Orange. Impressive then the number of champions passed under his management, among all, stand out names such as Beckenbauer, Muller, Matthaus and Maradona.
Lippi
He wasn’t the most tactical, he wasn’t the toughest and he wasn’t even an inventor of football philosophies. He was simply Lippi, or the first coach in history to win both the Champions Cup and the World Cup, to make four seasons of European Cups, always reaching the final (Italian record). He is the exact opposite of the fundamentalists of football, he has never had a totem scheme or a very specific playing philosophy. The only thing that interested him was to win, if he did it by giving a show .. ok, otherwise patience: he was fine anyway. Lippi in a certain sense was the evolution of Trapattoni. Compared to Trap he was more skilled in tactical reading, he was less so than Capello. But unlike the Friulian (who failed his experiences in the national team) he then proved better in managing men and changing rooms, He could and should have won at least one more Champions’ Cup, but he made a great comeback with a great world and unexpected. Lippi is one of those who has made the talent of his players pay off to the last drop. Perhaps, in some cases, he also got something more out of it, compared to initial expectations and this is a typical thing of great coaches.
Ancelotti
Carletto was born from a rib of Sacchi, but over the years he has surpassed his mentor from Fusignano. Ancelotti in fact in the early years of his career is a fundamentalist fanatic, one who sells Zola and who does not want Baggio and who for a certain period abolishes the role of the attacking midfielder in Italy. But over time, some of his angularities vanish and after a few too many disappointments, which had led someone to call him a successful loser at the end of 2000, Carletto found his way to Milan, and made them brilliant inventions, like the tree of Christmas with Pirlo in front of the defense. From then on it was a long glorious ride that led him to win everything and more with Milan, Chelsea, PSG and Real Madrid. He has equaled Bob Paisley’s record of 3 Champions Cups, and is a candidate to surpass it as since next year he will train another battleship like Bayern. Ancelotti is a coach who over the years has always known how to adapt to the team and the players he had at his disposal, always giving emotions, games and entertainment, all while managing a long theory of champions, from whom he has always been, not only respected, but even loved. Currently, many consider him number one in the world and if he continues like this he has a good chance of becoming the best ever.
Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson is the one who revived the Man.Utd, a feat that is nothing short of unique in the history of world football, given that the Red Devils for English football had become only a decayed noble from the legendary but now remote past. With him United have tripled their leagues and cups of champions, and became the only world champion club among Her Majesty the Queen’s teams. Alone, the Scotsman managed to win 50 trophies, more than many glorious clubs. Ferguson was the manager of the most important club in English football for 27 consecutive years. His greatness was above all that of always finding new stimuli at the end of each great cycle, in fact he was perhaps the only coach in the history of football not to be worn down by victories, seeing that in his time at United he had 3 great winning cycles. This shows that he was training for the sheer sake of it and not just for his personal glory. Discoverer of talents, manager of champions, high-level strategist, the Scotsman will miss the red devils a lot, who in fact have not raised a trophy since he left.
Clough
Unpleasant as few, bordering on hateful, politically incorrect and tremendously arrogant. In short, humanly speaking, Bryan Clough did not present himself well, so much so that on his first day in the Leeds headquarters, he demanded that the photographs and furniture left by his predecessor Don Reeve be burned, obviously without being satisfied. His experience of him at Leeds was a failure bordering on traumatic, but precisely from that great disappointment, together with his deputy Peter Taylor (a secluded but fundamental figure), he found the strength to create his legendary career as a coach. In fact, he won with two small, indeed very small teams (Derby County and Nottingham Forest), bringing their first historic title of English champion to the showcase of these two clubs. But in the case of Nottingham he did even more, because he managed to win two consecutive champions’ cups. He was an awkward and in some ways even absurd character, but he was able to motivate his men like few others, and from them he was able to get more than the maximum of their possibilities. He did not like us Italians, a famous sentence about him in the old municipal locker room in a first leg semi-final of the champions cup against Juve, when he had to say: “Fucking Italian bastards”, words that he never retracted. He did not like the air game, and in this he was very little English, so much so that he once said: “If God had wanted us to play in the clouds, then he should have put the grass up there”. In spite of everything: the greatest coach that has ever had English football. however, he was able to motivate his men like few others, and from them he was able to get more than the maximum of their possibilities. He did not like us Italians, a famous sentence about him in the old municipal locker room in a first leg semi-final of the champions cup against Juve, when he had to say: “Fucking Italian bastards”, words that he never retracted. He did not like the air game, and in this he was very little English, so much so that he once said: “If God had wanted us to play in the clouds, then he should have put the grass up there”. In spite of everything: the greatest coach that has ever had English football. however, he was able to motivate his men like few others, and from them he was able to get more than the maximum of their possibilities.
He did not like us Italians, a famous sentence about him in the old municipal locker room in a first leg semi-final of the champions cup against Juve, when he had to say: “Fucking Italian bastards”, words that he never retracted. He did not like the air game, and in this he was very little English, so much so that he once said: “If God had wanted us to play in the clouds, then he should have put the grass up there”. In spite of everything: the greatest coach that has ever had English football. famous one of his words in the changing rooms of the old municipal in a first leg semi-final of the champions cup against Juve, when he said: “Fucking Italian bastards”, words he never retracted. He did not like the air game, and in this he was very little English, so much so that he once said: “If God had wanted us to play in the clouds, then he should have put the grass up there”. In spite of everything: the greatest coach that has ever had English football. famous one of his words in the changing rooms of the old municipal in a first leg semi-final of the champions cup against Juve, when he said: “Fucking Italian bastards”, words he never retracted. He did not like the air game, and in this he was very little English, so much so that he once said: “If God had wanted us to play in the clouds, then he should have put the grass up there”. In spite of everything: the greatest coach that has ever had English football.
Happel
He was nicknamed “the tyrant” and, in fact, the nickname suited him perfectly, since we are talking about the coach who practically invented the stereotype of the hard and inflexible iron sergeant. The Austrian Happel seemed to be the reincarnation of some great general in history, in fact his teams did not play football, but went to war. The main characteristic of him was to study the opponent and always find the tactical countermeasure that would neutralize him. He practiced a cynical and very refined football, halfway between the total and the Italian one. In fact, his teams were equipped with the perfect synchrony of total football, tremendously aggressive, but with few frills. They practiced a grim pressing and as soon as they got into possession of the ball they verticalized in the typical manner of the Italian counterattack. He won two champions’ cups and everything there was to win with Feyenoord and Hamburg, creating the history of these two clubs from nothing. For us Italians he was a real black beast, since our teams have always beaten them with him with good reason, even two gurus like Trapattoni and Bearzot, managed to understand little and nothing against him. He always started as an underdog, but in the end – except for very rare occasions – he inevitably managed to overturn the prediction and win, practically creating the history of these two clubs from nothing. For us Italians he was a real black beast, since our teams have always beaten them with him with good reason, even two gurus like Trapattoni and Bearzot, managed to understand little and nothing against him. He always started as an underdog, but in the end – except for very rare occasions – he inevitably managed to overturn the prediction and win, practically creating the history of these two clubs from nothing. For us Italians he was a real black beast, since our teams have always beaten them with him with good reason, even two gurus like Trapattoni and Bearzot, managed to understand little and nothing against him. He always started as an underdog, but in the end – except for very rare occasions – he inevitably managed to overturn the prediction and win,
Michels
before him, Holland wanted football, without being able to have it; then he gave Holland to football. Rinus Michels is the classic example of someone who solves problems, looking at the issue from a different perspective. His Total Voetbal is a strange utopian alchemy that at some point becomes reality thanks to the incredible combination of men, mentality, tactics and athletic preparation. His football is total because it required the totality of his interpreters, the total capacity for sacrifice and self-denial from a mental, athletic and even spiritual point of view if you like. He told him that they had to be focused from the first to the last minute, like F1 drivers who risk their lives, because half a distraction would be enough to have an accident and lose their life. He wanted something like this applied to a much less dramatic context like that of a football match. Maybe in reality, he didn’t even know what he wanted to achieve. But the final result of his arcane inspirations and his intentions was something that changed the history of football forever, an opening towards a type of game that today is perhaps producing exasperations, but which will nevertheless remain a source of eternal inspiration for all those who want to play offensive football.
Chapman
There are almanac coaches, capable of winning everything and then inexorably ending up in oblivion and then there are coaches who have won, but have gone down in history above all for having given pure evolution to sport. The second category belongs to the English Chapman, or the man who took football from the pioneering and amateur phase to the professional one. In fact, he was the inventor of the crescent near the penalty area and the numbers on the shirts to distinguish the players, he also convinced the English FA to introduce lighting on the fields to be able to play night games. He invented the WM module and created the modern defense to avoid the goleade that resulted from the modification of the offside rule, that for a certain period he favors the attacking game in an abnormal way. He led Arsenal to victory, making the gunners the iconic club of the 30s with a modern and spectacular game that would go down in history. He managed his players with kindness, using the carrot more than the stick, thus basing his success not on self-fear, but on the motivation he could give to his men about him, talking or even confiding in them and asking them for advice in moments. appropriate; from a suggestion of his captain Charlie Buchan – which he was able to grasp – the concept of modern defense was born. For all these things and many others, he can probably be considered as the Brunelleschi of football, given that he has given the latter a real new perspective.
