Not all footballers will make good managers, removed from it. And in reality, not all those that have performed the sport even make good pundits. We’ve truly witnessed some former gamers turn into horrendous managers and pundits. Enjoying the sport at any degree doesn’t mechanically imply you may have a superb 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 type of gamers that take my curiosity after they retire and go into teaching, and Cesc Fabregas is totally one in every of them.
I completely cherished watching him play soccer. He simply made the sport look straightforward. And you may see when he was taking part in, 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 (satirically 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 positive 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 takes 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 won’t make you a superb supervisor. He might want to acquire expertise on the prime degree, he’ll should be a supervisor and show himself. He’ll should be versatile and pragmatic.
He can even want to verify he can handle gamers on a private degree and hold 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 strain. And he’ll should be a pacesetter.
However as a participant, he additionally grew used to many of those components, particularly the strain of doing it on the very prime. He performed for among the greatest in among 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, but it surely’s inaccurate. Cesc has been seen shouting and berating his gamers within the Como dressing room, and he definitely doesn’t maintain again! I like seeing this sort of administration. He’s displaying that he actually can have all of it in his teaching locker too.
Como are at the moment on target to be promoted to Serie A this season and have gained their final 5 matches in a row. They’re at the moment second, however they’ve been enhancing all season beneath the teaching of Cesc and supervisor Osian Roberts, who is definitely the previous assistant supervisor of the Wales nationwide aspect, and Crystal Palace!
I’m definitely not advocating for Chelsea to go and rent Cesc as their subsequent supervisor anytime quickly, however they need to definitely be retaining a really shut eye on his progress and creating a superb 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 huge managers, one other Xabi Alonso maybe, who was one other tremendous intelligent participant on the pitch and now proving to be a brilliant intelligent supervisor.
I like to comply with together with tales like this. Some gamers retire and simply depart the sport, others attempt teaching and fail, some go into totally different companies, others attempt totally different soccer routes equivalent to punditry of directorship. For me, I believe Cesc was not solely born to be an elite soccer participant, but in addition to turn into an elite soccer coach.
