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 truly witnessed some former gamers change into horrendous managers and pundits. Enjoying the sport at any stage doesn’t routinely imply you’ve gotten an excellent soccer information.
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 nicely they learn the sport, and the way they play two steps forward of everybody else. These are the form of gamers that take my curiosity once they retire and go into teaching, and Cesc Fabregas is totally certainly one of them.
I completely beloved watching him play soccer. He simply made the sport look straightforward. And you might see when he was enjoying, how he was conducting the play, instructing these round him, and having a way of management and affect as nicely, that he might probably 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 rapidly turning into a tactical genius.
Clearly having tactical information alone won’t make you an excellent supervisor. He might want to acquire 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 verify he can handle gamers on a private stage and maintain 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 have to be a frontrunner.
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 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 considering that, however 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 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 present on the right track to be promoted to Serie A this season and have gained their final 5 matches in a row. They’re at present 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 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 preserving a really shut eye on his progress and creating an excellent 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 an excellent intelligent supervisor.
I like to observe together with tales like this. Some gamers retire and simply depart the sport, others strive teaching and fail, some go into totally different companies, others strive totally different soccer routes reminiscent of punditry of directorship. For me, I believe Cesc was not solely born to be an elite soccer participant, but additionally to change into an elite soccer coach.
