Not all footballers will make good managers, removed from it. And actually, not all those that have performed the sport even make good pundits. We’ve got really witnessed some former gamers turn into horrendous managers and pundits. Enjoying the sport at any degree doesn’t robotically imply you might have soccer data.
Some footballers have excessive IQ’s, some are simply tremendous clever and can nail something they put their minds to. Some gamers you watch in disbelief at their soccer intelligence and the way intelligent they’re, how properly they learn the sport, and the way they play two steps forward of everybody else. These are the sort of gamers that take my curiosity once they retire and go into teaching, and Cesc Fabregas is totally certainly one of them.
I completely liked watching him play soccer. He simply made the sport look straightforward. And you can see when he was enjoying, how he was conducting the play, instructing these round him, and having a way of management and affect as properly, that he may doubtlessly have the makings to turn into an excellent supervisor. He has that Pep Guardiola about him (paradoxically each of them used to play for Barcelona).
The person used to put on a magic hat when he performed for Chelsea, and I’m fairly certain he nonetheless wears that hat now, only a teaching model of it!
At 36-years-old now, Fabregas is the present assistant supervisor at Como after filling in because the interim supervisor final season. He’s taking issues slowly, and rightly so, however he’s quietly studying to be a prime coach.
He has a transparent understanding of tactical setups, and he’s rapidly turning into a tactical genius.
Clearly having tactical data alone is not going to make you supervisor. He might want to acquire expertise on the prime degree, he’ll must be a supervisor and show himself. He’ll must be versatile and pragmatic.
He may also want to ensure he can handle gamers on a private degree and preserve motivation and spirits excessive amongst a big group of gamers. He might want to discover ways to handle egos, sad gamers, the media, and the stress. And he’ll must be a pacesetter.
However as a participant, he additionally grew used to many of those parts, particularly the stress of doing it on the very prime. He performed for a number of the finest in a number of the most excessive pressured video games ever, and as I discussed earlier, the man is a pure chief.
However isn’t Cesc too good to be a supervisor and instil self-discipline and management?
You’d be forgiven for considering that, nevertheless it’s inaccurate. Cesc has been seen shouting and berating his gamers within the Como dressing room, and he actually doesn’t maintain again! I really like seeing this type of administration. He’s displaying that he actually can have all of it in his teaching locker too.
Como are at the moment heading in the right direction to be promoted to Serie A this season and have received their final 5 matches in a row. They’re at the moment second, however they’ve been bettering all season beneath the teaching of Cesc and supervisor Osian Roberts, who is definitely the previous assistant supervisor of the Wales nationwide facet, and Crystal Palace!
I’m actually not advocating for Chelsea to go and rent Cesc as their subsequent supervisor anytime quickly, however they need to actually be retaining a really shut eye on his progress and creating relationship with him at this stage, within the view to hiring him down the road. As a result of I’ve no doubts that he has the makings to turn into one of many subsequent massive managers, one other Xabi Alonso maybe, who was one other tremendous intelligent participant on the pitch and now proving to be an excellent intelligent supervisor.
I like to observe together with tales like this. Some gamers retire and simply go away the sport, others strive teaching and fail, some go into completely different companies, others strive completely different soccer routes comparable to punditry of directorship. For me, I feel Cesc was not solely born to be an elite soccer participant, but in addition to turn into an elite soccer coach.
