The Top Eight Football Coaches in the Last Ten Years – Part 1
In a football match the attention and the glory normally goes to the goal keepers who either make some spectacular saves or the strikers who glide through the opposing team’s defences to score an amazing goal.
The glory almost never goes to the coaches at the end of the match, even though they are the ones calling the shots and it is their training and tactics that is taught to the team that makes the squad into what they truly are.
Ask any real football fan or a football pundit, they will all the same thing that the most important component of a club is the coach and if a club has a bad or even a satisfactory coach then they can never raise to brilliance.
The manager’s job is not an easy one, telling everyone what to do, training them every single day, and catering to their every day needs. Some coaches have been reported to have become even closer to the players than their actual
fathers.
The main man can be called a lot of names in a club, from the Boss, the manager, the chief to even the Gaffer but he is known world round as the coach.
So here is an article on the greatest football managers in the last ten years. The list consists of eight coaches that have reached greatness in the world of football. These are the guys that are always yelling at their own players,
training them to the very edge, pushing them to achieve the absolute maximum of their potential. From motivating them to making them champions, all of this comes from a football coach.
8. - Frank Rijkaard
Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard is the 48 year old football manager who is a retired footballer. He is from the Netherlands and started his professional football career with Ajax in 1980.
He made two hundred and six appearances in the next seven years that he was part of the team and in the process managed to net forty six goals before he made a move to Sporting CP in 1987.
In Sporting CP, he was signed too late to be eligible to play in any competition so the club loaned him out to Real Zaragoza for a year from 1987-88.
Right after this loan spell finished, he got transferred from Sporting CP to Inter Milan without even making a single appearance for Sporting CP in 1988.
He came to the Italian giants in the summer transfers and quickly became a crucial part of the squad and was known as a play maker as he used to play the position of midfielder.
Frank Rijkard went on to make a hundred and forty two appearances for Ajax with only sixteen goals scored in his time with the Italians.
His final move came in 1993 where he made a two year spell for Ajax with fifty five appearances and nineteen goals scored. He was also a part of the Netherlands national squad from 1980 to 1994 where he managed to represent his
country seventy three times, making ten amazing goals.
He took retirement in 1995 and started focusing on his future career in football management and after only three years the first team that he officially managed was the Netherlands national team from 1998 to 2000.
Contd. in Part 2
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