2023-09-27 13:15:09
Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United idol, tops 442 magazine’s list.
Photo: AFP – ANDREW YATES
A few hours ago 442 magazine published the list of the best 100 coaches in the history of football. Clearly subjective, trivial and with no Colombian in sight. The criteria on which each coach’s value has been determined is unknown, but beneath each name is a brief description of his achievements and contribution to football. A coach must be insightful, motivating, he must be eloquent and strategic, and he must give freedom to his players, without freedom, he is just an arrogant tyrant, because at the end of the day, he will not take the field, he will not receive the kicks and neither will score the goals; although without his influence, without his analysis of the game, there would be no equity, nor would there be the possibility of the little ones being able to defeat the giants.
Number five is Pep Guardiola. The Spaniard has immortalized his discriminative possession play, and his obsessive relationship with controlling the game through ball movement. His first experience was as coach of Barcelona B, where he became La Liga champion and then rose quickly and successfully to direct the first team. His start was shaky and questioned, he lost the first two games by the slightest difference and seemed unprepared, but what followed next was a sporting marvel. His Barcelona made the little ones dream, enthralled and perfected his style of play and managed to win two Champions Leagues and three Leagues in a row. After that he experimented a little at Bayern Munich, where he managed to win three leagues in a row, and then try his luck at Manchester City, his new fetish, which he has led to winning five of the seven leagues played, and the long-awaited Champions League, the year past.
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After Pep, there is Bill Shankly, the number four, the Liverpool legend. What made Bill so special was his authoritative and satirical way of leading the club. It was his liberating and competitive attitude. When he arrived at Anfield the team had deplorable, inhuman facilities, and played in the second division. Bill, with his red jackets and the zipper at the top, rubbing once morest his stocky neck; His classic black jeans, with two white lines on the side and his baggy pants, were the ones who gave hope to the team, who brought them out of their futile and childish decadence. It was he who took them to the first division and gave them a sense of unity. Thanks to him, the uniform is completely red, “so that rivals feel afraid.” The Briton is also the man who has managed the most Reds games, 783. He won three leagues, two English Cups and four Community Shields. And at the entrance to the Liverpool stadium there is a statue in his honor, which says: “He made people happy.”
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The third is Johan Cruyff. A man who abandoned football too soon. A man who gave a lot in exchange for nothing, or for eternal glory, which is the same thing. He died at the age of 68, a victim of lung cancer. Cruyff was very influential in Barcelona’s style, he was decisive, a before and following. He sensed that he had to superimpose quality and tactics on courage and physical ability, and he imprinted that on his equipment, luxurious, masterful and perfect at times. Johan won La Liga 5 times with Barcelona, 2 with Ajax, and the last edition of the European Champions Cup, with the Spanish team, in the 1991-1992 edition. He was always elegant, with his loose suit and shiny brown leather shoes, always meditating, always analyzing.
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Almost at the top is Rinus Michels, Cruyff’s teacher, the inventor of modern football, of total football, of the preconceived idea of a football with relative and eternally breakable positions. Michels had the brilliant idea of releasing the creative capacity of his players, of avoiding intimidating them with boring and squalid tactics that limited their ability to react and of understanding the game from the field, of feeling the paralysis of the rival, of understanding the virulent ball and attack when instinct required it. For him, any player might and should adopt another position if the development of the game and the play required it, and he trusted that another player would be able to make up for this new weakness without altering the team’s idea, which then, following a couple of guidelines would return to their initial form. Without him perhaps Pep Guardiola or Johan Cruyff would not exist. He won four Leagues with Ajax, three Dutch Cups, and one league with Barcelona, among other trophies.
Number one will surprise many and to others it will simply seem like an obvious procedure, a useless and even obvious redundancy. Sir Alex Ferguson is at the top of the list, not because of his immense record, but because of his enviable character, his tactical ideas, and his unappealable total understanding of the game. When he arrived at Manchester United he achieved nothing, it took seven years for the English coach to achieve glory, or at least for him to begin to touch it with the tips of his fleshy fingers. Ferguson managed to lift the Premier League trophy 13 times, four FA Cups, and two Champions Leagues. He stopped coaching in 2013, when he left the team. The stadium was falling apart, the roar of the fans a mixture of gratitude and utter dismay, while the narrator chanted his titles, and Sir Alex, devastated, nervously fingered his eyes and jaw with a trembling hand, trying hard not to. cry before the crowd that encouraged him with cheers and thanks, because if he did, he would not be able to leave. Ferguson always thought regarding the perfection of the game and the players, which are what is really important: “I don’t think there is anything wrong with losing your temper if it is for the right reasons. If they didn’t meet your expectations in a game. Because everything is built around what we expect, in terms of the level of our training and the club’s ambitions. My experience with human beings is that they like to do things the easy way. The moment you accept a bad performance from them or bad training, they will do it once more.”
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