■ Special feature for the 31st anniversary of the publication – Director’s Enthusiasm
Brazilian coach
Transfer of organizational power to a team focused on individual skills
Argentina Scaloni Director
Use of various formations in the right place
French director Deschamps
Winning as a player and manager… rich in experience
Spanish manager Enrique
Tiki Taka develops aggressively
The World Cup is a large-scale sports event that heats up the global village for regarding a month. Among the 32 countries that qualified for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Brazil, Argentina, France, and Spain are among the top four Latin American and European countries. This is because there are many stars, especially the masters who wield the baton.
Eternal champion Brazil will be led by manager Adenor Leonardo Bacci (61). He has been called Chi-Chi since he was a player. Chichi has been leading the Brazilian national team since 2016. Although Chichi’s position was shaken by only reaching the quarter-finals of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, his leadership controversy was quelled by driving the 2019 Copa America (South American Championships) championship. Coach Chichi transplanted organizational power to the Brazilian national team, which had a flamboyant individual skill, and is especially praised for balancing the air.
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Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni is the youngest coach at the Qatar World Cup at 44. He served as Argentina’s acting manager at the World Cup in Russia and was promoted to official manager. He participated in the 2006 World Cup in Germany as a midfielder and stepped on the World Cup stage as a player and manager. He finished third in the 2019 Copa Americas, but led them to the top two years later. Argentina are undefeated (26 wins, 9 draws) in 35 consecutive A matches under Scaloni. Scaloni uses a variety of formations and uses a wide range of players.
French coach Didier Deschamps (54) won the 1998 World Cup in France as captain. He became France’s head coach in 2012 and won the World Cup in Russia following the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Brazil. The third footballer in history to win the World Cup as a player and manager. His trademark is strong leadership enough to be appointed as the manager following the captain of the national team. Deschamps also values privacy outside the stadium, and was excluded from the national team following striker Karim Benzema was on trial. So he is classified as a principled.
Spanish coach Luis Enrique (52) played for his rivals Real Madrid and FC Barcelona during his time as a player, and won the gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He has a relationship with Korea in the quarterfinals of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup. He has been in charge of the Spanish national team since 2018. He is credited with aggressively developing the Spanish-specific tiki-taka, which gives and receives short, strong passes and gains possession of the ball, emphasizing a particularly fast transition to air.
By Lee Jun-ho, senior staff reporter jhlee@munhwa.com
