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Editorial: A Class Act Interview: Marcello Lippi Golden Oldies and Golden Youngies Laying the Foundations The Youth Coach – A different Including Species? NEWSLETTER FOR COACHES N O .35 JANUARY 2007 LIKE FACCHETTI, BOBBY CHARLTON HAS ALWAYS SHOWN CLASS, BOTH ON AN OFF THE PITCH. ROBERTO MANCINI WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH HIS PRESIDENT, PA/EMPICS GIACINTO FACCHETTI. DE SOUZA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES IMPRESSUM EDITORIAL GROUP Andy Roxburgh Graham Turner Frits Ahlstrøm PRODUCTION André Vieli Dominique Maurer Atema Communication SA Printed by Cavin SA COVER By beating Benfica in their last match, Manchester United (Wayne Rooney) secured a place in the direct knockout round of the UEFA Champions League again. (PHOTO: ALEX LIVESEY/GETTY IMAGES) GIACINTO FACCHETTI, A PIONEER OF THE ATTACKING FULL BACK. SABATTINI 2 A CLASS ACT EDITORIAL which goes with it, doesn’t give you the rich and famous. Coach educators class – there are other factors to be can also play a part in helping aspiring BY ANDY ROXBURGH, considered. coaches to concentrate on their pur- UEFA TECHNICAL DIRECTOR pose, and to recognise that in football, The character of a player or coach team success comes before personal (i.e. his personality traits) will ultimately glory. In summary, developing class can dictate the way he is perceived. In a be encouraged but not manufactured. word, it is about behaviour. Class acts Giacinto Facchetti, who passed away are considerate towards other people; People with class, such as Giacinto recently, was a man of class. The former they are honest, loyal, don’t make Facchetti, speak and perform from the captain of Inter Milan and Italy may excuses, take responsibility, graciously heart. As Inter Milan’s Luís Figo said have left us but his spirit remains as handle defeat and victory, don’t try to about Giacinto, his president: “He was an example to today’s players and be something they are not, and despite someone with a big heart.” A passion coaches. Class on this level is easy to their success, remain extremely hum- for the game, a caring attitude and a recognise, but difficult to define and ble. They understand the maxim: if warm personality are therefore at the to develop. Pelé, Bobby Charlton and you have to tell people you are – you core of such special people. In an era Eusébio (to name but three) are also in aren’t. Arrogance is the very antithesis when ruthlessness, a “win at all costs” this rare category of people who have of the humility shown by the person mentality and cynicism are often preva- displayed class on and off the pitch. of class. Gérard Houllier, the head lent, the players and coaches who coach of Olympique Lyonnais, empha- show real style and class should be So what is class? Does it come from sised the point when he spoke of the recognised and promoted – winning an innate ability and a natural disposi- classy Giacinto Facchetti: “He would does not need to equate with ugliness. tion for thoughtfulness and respect for give examples of his loyalty and his others? Or can it be trained? Certainly, huge humility every day”. And Sandro There is no doubt that Giacinto Facchetti there are two sides to the class “coin” – Mazzola, a European champion with was a role model, on and off the pitch. the performer (player or coach) on Inter Milan and a Facchetti team-mate, one side, and the person (the charac- added another brushstroke to Giac- As Gerhard Aigner, the former CEO of ter) on the other. Both aspects have into’s image when he said: “I remem- UEFA, stated in a tribute to his friend a part to play in producing “an extraor- ber a young man, serene and tranquil.” Giacinto: “Football has lost one of its dinary man”, as Roberto Mancini, the Most people can recognise the quali- crown jewels.” Recognising a class act is head coach of Inter Milan, described ties, but is it possible to train this intan- one thing – replicating it is another. Giacinto Facchetti. gible thing called class? On the pitch, class is seen in the Of course, in their formative years, fluid way a player moves, in his timing, footballers can be nurtured into team- in his actions under pressure, in his orientated players, be made aware of ability to read the game and in the the role of others, and be encouraged eye-catching way he controls and uses to show respect for the game. Sir Alex the ball. Tommy Gemmell, who scored Ferguson, the renowned manager of a Facchetti-type goal for Glasgow Celtic Manchester United, is adamant that the against Inter Milan in the 1967 Euro- coaching staff have a responsibility to pean Cup final in Lisbon, spoke about influence the attitude of young players. Giacinto Facchetti’s pioneering role and As he says: “At this club we work his qualities as a player, when he said: hard to keep the players’ feet on the “He (Facchetti) was the first of the ground.” However, we must accept that modern overlapping fullbacks and my it is not just about coaching influences. manager, Jock Stein, asked me to A lot of a player’s class comes from copy him – I tried my best, but I don’t his God-given talent, his self-education, think I was as good as him.” his good upbringing, and a certain atti- tude which allows him to view life and Without entering into that particular the game in a positive light. Much of debate, most who saw Tommy, the the same can be said about coaches, pupil, and Giacinto, the master, would although enlightened coach education IMAGES GETTY agree that they both had style. programmes do urge young techni- Giacinto Facchetti received a plaque from UEFA But fame as a player or coach, with cians to be themselves, to be genuine, for players who made their mark on the the cups, medals, glory and fortune and not to become poor copies of Champion Clubs’ Cup/UEFA Champions League. 3 INTERVIEW BY ANDY ROXBURGH, UEFA TECHNICAL DIRECTOR UEFA-BOZZANI MARCELLO LIPPI IS THE ONLY COACH WHO HAS WON BOTH THE FIFA WORLD CUP (2006) AND THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (1996). IN A REMARKABLE COACHING CAREER, SPANNING MORE THAN THREE DECADES, HE ALSO WON THE SERIE A TITLE FIVE TIMES, THE ITALIAN CUP IN 1995, FOUR ITALIAN SUPER CUPS, THE UEFA SUPER CUP AND THE 1996 EUROPE/SOUTH AMERICAN CUP – ALL WITH JUVENTUS. IN ADDITION, HE JOINTLY HOLDS THE RECORD WITH REAL MADRID’S MIGUEL MUÑOZ FOR FOUR EUROPEAN FINAL APPEARANCES AS A TECHNICIAN. THE FORMER UC SAMPDORIA PLAYER, WHO PLAYED 239 TIMES IN ITALY’S TOP DIVISION, STARTED OUT AS A YOUTH COACH WITH THE GENOA CLUB, AND EIGHT CLUBS LATER, HE ARRIVED AT THE ‘OLD LADY OF TURIN’ IN 1994. MARCELLO, A GRADUATE OF THE ITALIAN FA COACHING SCHOOL IN FLORENCE, TOOK ALL THE NECESSARY STEPS ON HIS WAY TO THE TOP, AND APART FROM ONE SEASON AT FC INTERNAZIONALE MILANO, HE WAS THE ‘MISTER’ OF JUVENTUS BETWEEN 1994 AND 2004. MARCELLO CAN ALSO BE CONSIDERED AS THE COACHES’ COACH BECAUSE HE IS GREATLY ADMIRED BY HIS ELITE COACHING COLLEAGUES. THE MAN WITH THE FILM STAR LOOKS IS UNDOUBTEDLY A FOOTBALL WINNER. HE IS A STAR, AND THE NAME IS: MARCELLO LIPPI 1 • How do you feel about being 1996, I felt I had completed a cycle. 4 • What is the difference between the first coach to win the World Cup Not that I felt that I was a top-notch coaching at club level and working and the UEFA Champions League? coach, but I was very satisfied and with a national team? I didn’t realise that until after we won it gave me greater strength to talk The difference is huge. As a club the final in Germany. It’s an absolute to my players because I had won coach, you start in the summer and privilege for me because we are talking something. then you work on a daily basis, trying about the two most important football to convey your feelings and your competitions in the world. And if you 3 • How did you train to become ideas to your players – things which also consider the Intercontinental Cup, a coach? come from your heart and things then I am even more satisfied. But My career as a player was hon- which come from your brain. You for me it is not a point of arrival, only ourable but not brilliant. When I was build your team, technically and tacti- a point of departure. 25 years old I took a coaching cally, every day. You can check your course because I wanted to under- players’ progress in matches week 2 • What was the moment stand more about what was hap- after week. With the national team, when you knew you were destined pening in the game. I was inter- we only meet once in a while, and to become a top-level coach? ested in tactics and what coaches although you are a coach, your main Well, a coach only becomes a top-level did, and I was already interested in task is the selection of the players – coach when he achieves some signifi- becoming a coach before I retired you have to recruit the best, but you cant results. When we won the UEFA from playing. I thought I would have very little time to communicate Champions League and the Europe/ start out at youth level, which I did. your thoughts to your players, so the South American Cup with Juventus in But I didn’t stay there too long.

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