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FREE JOSE MOURINHO: SPECIAL LEADERSHIP: CREATING AND MANAGING SUCCESSFUL TEAMS PDF LuГs LourenГ§o | 164 pages | 18 Apr 2014 | Prime Books | 9789896551971 | English | Carcavelos, Portugal José Mourinho - One of the Greatest Coaches in Soccer History - BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP Real Madrid have often tried to hire Mr Pochettino. Tottenham endured a poor start to the season, tumbling to 14th place, but most supporters expected him to turn things around. Nor has his reputation for arrogance, hostility—he once gouged an opposing manager in the eye—and spectacular downfalls. Though most of his tenures have started with great success, including league titles in four different countries and two Champions League trophies, they have usually ended acrimoniously. Most Manchester United fans were relieved when the club sacked him 11 months ago. Spurs fans last saw their club lift a trophy in Perhaps this regular though ungracious winner might bring them glory once again? Mr Mourinho certainly believes he will. But he remains as self-confident as ever. The problem is you never understood that. But will the Humble One actually prod Tottenham to perform at a higher level than their talented players ought to reach? And those who have overachieved at their last club have about the same chance as a coin flip of doing so in their next job. The hand of Poch That assertion seems like heresy to most football fans, who balk at the idea of inexplicable, random patterns. When their team goes on an unforeseen run of wins or losses, they look for a simple cause. Generally, they turn to the person who decides the tactics and selection of players. Now that Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams are seventh in the table, most are calling for his dismissal. Such arguments often include the claim that the manager has lost the backing of his squad. One group of Dutch academics found that clubs which endure such rough patches tend to come through them, regardless of whether they change their coach. Mr Mourinho may receive plenty of credit just for getting Spurs to return to their usually dominant selves, when Mr Pochettino might also have overseen such a turnaround. Because football teams so Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams go through ups and downs—and chairmen fire their coaches with such regularity—measuring long-term managerial performance is tricky. Of the managers to have appeared in that time, Mr Szymanski reckoned only had consistently achieved better results than expected, given their financial resources. Football analysts have only recently developed statistics that can do this for all positions, and such data exists for just the last few seasons. Instead, we turned to an unconventional source: video games. Mr Mourinho would scoff at being evaluated via PlayStation. We fed them into a statistical model, which assigned weights for each position, and created a hypothetical starting 11 plus a couple of substitutes for each club. We then plugged these line-ups into the 38 games a year that clubs play in their domestic leagues. We could not find a readily available database of Champions League matches going back 15 years, but will try to build one in the future. When we simulated entire seasons, we found that our predictions were Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams as good as those made by betting markets. The wisdom of the gambling crowds is the gold standard of forecasting in sports, since punters can price in factors that statisticians overlook. Gamblers on Sporting Index, a website that offers wagers on the final number of points each team will achieve, have had an average error of 7. Our dinky model scored Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams. The data are sobering for believers in managerial omnipotence. This suggests that football managers who are excelling at their clubs cannot control most of the determinants of their success, or replicate them elsewhere. The players clearly make most of the difference. Not quite. We did find a link between overperformance in the past and the future, but it was very weak. Our best guess of his future contribution is therefore roughly 1. For Mr Pochettino, his 2. That is dwarfed by the nine points that Lionel Messi contributes, relative to an average striker. Those fans who still worship Mr Mourinho will find it hard to believe that such a reliable champion adds barely a point per year, and a fifth as much as his new skipper. Perhaps Mr Mourinho will finally deliver the trophies that Spurs fans so desperately want. He has never finished a job without winning at least two of them. Sports Game theory. Reuse this content The Trust Project. Can it keep it up? The best of our journalism, hand-picked each day Sign up to our free daily newsletter, The Economist today Sign up now. Jose mourinho complexity thinking and team building He is widely considered to be one of the greatest managers of all time, [2] Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams and is one of the most decorated managers ever. After an uneventful career as a midfielder across Portugal's football pyramidMourinho first entered the sphere of management as an interpreter for Sir Bobby Robson at Sporting CP and Portobefore gaining success as an assistant Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams Barcelona under both Robson and his successor, Louis van Gaal. That success earned him a move to England with Chelsea inwhere he won two Premier League titles, a FA Cupand two League Cups in his three seasons at the club, before he departed in amid reports of disagreements with club owner Roman Abramovich. Mourinho left Real Madrid in to rejoin Chelsea, where he won another league title and League Cupbut was dismissed in after a poor run of results. Mourinho wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and joined the Belenenses youth team. Graduating to the senior level, he played at Rio Ave where his father was coachBelenenses, and Sesimbra. He lacked the requisite pace and power to become a professional and chose to focus on Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams a football coach instead. Later he accepted the position of assistant manager at Estrela da Amadora[22] then was a scout at Ovarense. Then, inan opportunity arose to work as a translator for a top foreign coach: Bobby Robson had been appointed as the new manager of Lisbon club Sporting CP and needed an English-speaking local coach to work as his interpreter. Mourinho began discussing tactics and coaching with Robson in his interpreting role. When Porto appointed him as their head coach, Mourinho moved with him, continuing to coach and interpret for players at the new club. After two years at Porto, the duo moved again, joining Barcelona in Robson and Mourinho's styles complemented each other: the Englishman favoured an attacking style, while Mourinho covered defensive options, and the Portuguese's love of planning and training combined Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams Robson's direct man-management. The Barcelona attack was led by a prime Ronaldo — whom Mourinho regards as the best player post-Diego Maradona. One of the most important things I learnt from Bobby Robson is that when you win, you shouldn't assume you are the team, and when you lose, you shouldn't think you are rubbish. He began working with Robson's successor, Louis van Gaaland he learned much from the Dutchman's conscientious style. Both assistant and head coach combined their studious approach to the game and Barcelona won La Liga twice in Van Gaal's first two years as coach. He let Mourinho develop his own independent coaching style and entrusted him with the coaching duties of Barcelona B. The chance to become a top-tier manager arrived in September when Mourinho moved up from his role as assistant manager at Benfica to replace manager Jupp Heynckes after the fourth week of the Primeira Liga. Tell Benfica if they want a first-team coach you will go; if they want an assistant you will stay. Mourinho was highly critical of Ferreira, whom he had first encountered as his teacher at ISEF and later lambasted the veteran coach by stating, "This could be the story of a donkey who worked for 30 years but never became a horse. Such was Robson's desperation for Mourinho to join him he offered to step down after two years Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams charge and hand over the reins to Mourinho. Mourinho turned the offer down and said he knew Robson would never step down at the club he loved. Mourinho and Mozer proved a popular combination, enjoying a 3—0 win against rivals Sporting CP in December. He left the club on 5 December [35] after just nine league games in charge. Upon later reflection, Vilarinho rued his poor judgement and expressed his frustration at losing Mourinho:. Only later I realised that one's personality and pride cannot be put before the interest of the institution we serve. After a 1—1 draw against Santa Clara on 20 JanuaryMourinho recorded eight matches unbeaten in the league six wins, two draws since 25 November Mourinho guided the team to third place that year after a strong game run including 11 wins and gave the Jose Mourinho: Special Leadership: Creating and Managing Successful Teams of "making Porto champions next year". He recalled captain Jorge Costa after a six-month loan to Charlton Athletic. During the pre-season, Mourinho put detailed reports of the team training on the club website.