Sometimes when I see people criticizing managers/coaches for not getting results, I feel. Irritated, because coaching ain't an easy job.

From the outside world, we might see the coaches to be some one who just assembled a group of players together and the players do the work for him on the pitch. This thinking is so wrong that only people who are in the field will understand the business and know that it goes beyond that.

Their was this period when Manchester united legend Gary Neville started as a sport pundits, he criticized coaches and managers a lot until he became one. He failed miserably in his first appointment as a coach when he was tasked with leading Valencia fc of Spain.

Although Gary Neville might have been a great player during his footballing days, yet he was a terrible manager / coach. He lacks so many good manager traits and that made lose his job after just 20 games or so with Valencia ; leaving with unwanted records. Even Paul Scholes also failed as a coach too and he was axed too.

Managers/Coaches job goes beyond giving instructions from the touch line on every match days, it's more than that, infact it's the most tiring and demanding job of this current age because once the team stops performing, the coach will be axed first detailed knowledge of the game

What are the key qualities a good

football

A good football Manager must be

  • Patient
  • make a stand
  • have an ideology or brand or style of play
  • Open and accessible
  • Accommodating
  • not afraid to put a player in order regardless of status
  • Listening
  • flexible
  • ability to read a game into to
  • making the hard calls
  • Durable

A good coach job must see beyond the ordinary that's why their job involves constant thinking for 24 hours. Most mangers tend to overthink and this makes them grow Grey hair faster (story for another day).

Some people have no idea of the vast amount of job is on the shoulders on coaches/managers, some of the task a Manager/coach is entrust with are:

  • Identifying good players that fits the team style
  • drawing out tactics
  • determining and setting the team strategy
  • in charge of making the team formation
  • keeping players in check
  • studying opponents tactics and finding out ways to beat them
  • giving the team morale
  • dishing out instructions to players off and off the pitch
  • overseeing training sessions and setting fitness regimes
  • determining players to use on a match day
  • substituting players while the game is on
  • determining the best position a player could perform

believe me managers jobs goes beyond what I wrote above but those are the few I can remember now