Let me ask you a question:
Who does the game belong to?
Answer this question and in the rest of this thread, with the help of Juanma Lillo, I will explain why there is clearly a right answer.
Who does the game belong to?
Answer this question and in the rest of this thread, with the help of Juanma Lillo, I will explain why there is clearly a right answer.
The laws of the game do not state anything about a coach or manager.
This means that in order to play the game of football, you do not need coaches.
Let me reiterate this.
Coaches are not necessary in football.
This means that in order to play the game of football, you do not need coaches.
Let me reiterate this.
Coaches are not necessary in football.
Now, let’s get some help from Juanma Lillo to figure out why the coach has become so important.
“A manager is nothing more than a facilitator, at the very most. The players are what’s truly important, with good footballers everything is easier.” - Lillo
“A manager is nothing more than a facilitator, at the very most. The players are what’s truly important, with good footballers everything is easier.” - Lillo
In a nutshell, this is Juanma’s coaching approach. Football belongs to the players, and many times managers simply get in the way.
Perhaps this is the reason that so many people are drawn to his words.
He speaks to the player and about the simplicity of football that seems to be disappearing by the day with more pundits, unnecessary statistics and those technologies which measure said statistics.
He speaks to the player and about the simplicity of football that seems to be disappearing by the day with more pundits, unnecessary statistics and those technologies which measure said statistics.
In the eyes of Lillo, football is losing its essence. We are overcomplicating the sport to an unnecessary degree.
And here’s the key, when people outside of the game, like coaches, overcomplicate the game they are making themselves necessary.
And here’s the key, when people outside of the game, like coaches, overcomplicate the game they are making themselves necessary.
It’s the perfect salesman tactic.
Salesman: “Could you write your name on this paper?”
Customer: “I don’t have a pen.”
Salesman: “Well, you’re in luck because I sell pens.”
Salesman: “Could you write your name on this paper?”
Customer: “I don’t have a pen.”
Salesman: “Well, you’re in luck because I sell pens.”
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If we make the game complicated, then there is a further need for the coach’s ‘knowledge’ about the thing he made complicated to begin with.
If we make the game complicated, then there is a further need for the coach’s ‘knowledge’ about the thing he made complicated to begin with.
‘But David you are a coach’
That’s where I take Lillo’s advice, I am a facilitator of the game.
I give the game back to the players.
What this means is I make the game simple by providing game situations that players experience so that they can play the game better.
That’s where I take Lillo’s advice, I am a facilitator of the game.
I give the game back to the players.
What this means is I make the game simple by providing game situations that players experience so that they can play the game better.
And this is your role as well.
You need to provide the game situations your players can best learn from and need for them to excel in the match.
You need to provide the game situations your players can best learn from and need for them to excel in the match.
I feel so strongly about giving the game back to players that I made an online coaching course to help coaches view the game holistically, without separating into parts to be able to design game situations that will help their players the most.
So let’s do this together. Let’s give the game back.
Join our community of coaches who are on this mission and enroll in the course today.
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