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 now have really witnessed some former gamers change into horrendous managers and pundits. Taking part in the sport at any stage doesn’t mechanically imply you have got 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 effectively 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 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 could possibly 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 effectively, that he may doubtlessly have the makings to change 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 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 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 shortly turning into a tactical genius.
Clearly having tactical data alone won’t make you supervisor. He might want to achieve expertise on the prime stage, he’ll have to be a supervisor and show himself. He’ll have to be versatile and pragmatic.
He can even want to ensure he can handle gamers on a private stage 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 strain. And he’ll have to be a pacesetter.
However as a participant, he additionally grew used to many of those parts, particularly the strain of doing it on the very prime. He performed for a few of the finest in a few 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 pondering that, however it’s inaccurate. Cesc has been seen shouting and berating his gamers within the Como dressing room, and he definitely doesn’t maintain again! I really like seeing this sort of administration. He’s displaying that he actually can have all of it in his teaching locker too.
Como are presently 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 presently second, however they’ve been enhancing all season below 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 maintaining 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 change into one of many subsequent large 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 go away the sport, others attempt teaching and fail, some go into totally different companies, others attempt totally different soccer routes resembling punditry of directorship. For me, I believe Cesc was not solely born to be an elite soccer participant, but in addition to change into an elite soccer coach.
