It looks as if, for the second year running, the English Premier League will be won by a team coached by an Italian manager. In Germany too, Carlo Ancelotti has done what he does best and win the league title. He would probably have led Bayern Munich further in the Champions League had they not been hindered by a number of questionable refereeing decisions. Even so, that same Champions League could still be won by an Italian manager in the form of Juventus’s Massimiliano Allegri. The point of all this is that Italian managers are among the world’s best. How come? This article helps answer that question.
How to balance a developmental environment with a desire to win?
It has been an abysmal year for Middlesborough as the team never really looked good enough to keep its place in the Premier League. One of the few exceptions is the young central defender Ben Gibson who, regardless of what happens to his team is likely to move to a bigger club next summer. Gibson is another in the long list of players who has come through the club’s academy that, this year, will also be losing Dave Parnaby the man whose vision help mould it into one of the country’s best.
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"Football is like maths, two plus two makes four. If you reckon two plus two makes five, you lose." – Otto Rehhagel, European Championship winning coach with Greece.
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