Here we introduce top top 10 coaches in FIFA World Cup 2014 and their respective coaching credentials.
Football often proves to be a game that can be won or lost on tactics and nobody knows this better than the shrewd football analysts and coaches who try to perfect their team combination and gamemaking aspects according to the opponent and their team strength. Irrespective of all these great talents and football prodigies often change the course of a game just single handedly and even world's most virtuoso tactician and coach would agree on that. Considering all in the FIFA World Cup 2014 we may see an array of versatile tactical brilliance from some of the world's greatest football coaches. Even a bunch of great players and performers on the field needs to be tuned in every match to get the best out of them. Moreover, coach decides the final lineup and crucial changes in a ongoing match and he knows how to incorporate positional changes in the game to increase his team's chances. He is the man who decides on either going all out or become defensive to keep the lead after scoring a goal. And from one match to another, from group stage to knockout level, from one winning feat or defeat to another he is the man who continuously boosts the moral of the squad and tries to adjust the weaklings. Behind the superb skills and scoring feats of Messi, Ronaldo or Iniesta, coaches play the most important role, coaches also win matches. Here we introduce top 10 coaches in FIFA World Cup 2014.
World's luckiest coach or a great coaching prodigy who got everything in his international career, how would you like to describe him? People who call him lucky just forget that managing a in-form star studded team is more difficult than a mediocre team. He is the coach who shaped Spain's world cup dream to reality and just did not stop there, went on to win the European cup in 2012 as well. He is the only coach to this date who won all three major football titles of the world, Champions League, European Cup and World Cup. If this hilarious success is just one factor to choose him in the no.1 spot among coaches, his coaching style, game reading ability, relationship with the players and training skills are other intricate aspects that deserve to be praised for their sheer effectiveness in a team that is seating on the volcano of huge expectations from supporters all over the world. Del Bosque would love to win the title consecutively for the second time, a feat that never been accomplished by any football coach and then he can sweetly think of himself as the Czar in the history of football coaches.
The present Brazil coach led the same nation to their 5th time title in 2002 and in spite of the presence of a constellation of a genius footballers like Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Roberto in that squad without his managerial skills and conviction it could have been another retreat from the top stage as we have seen Brazil to so many times to do so. If winning the title for Brazil national team has been the biggest success to his credit till date, guiding the Portugal national team to the final of European championship in 2004 and taking the same team to the last four of the World Cup 2006 had been his other great feats in the world football. Scolari is known to have an eccentric type of temperament and to the amazement of many that went perfectly well with most of the talents and football prodigies both in Brazil and Portugal. He demands more freedom and keeps himself very close to his players in every moment of their ups and downs and that made him a great coach and morale booster. His conviction level can make a player give his unusual best and he loves to get the result more through these confidence building measures than so called tactics. That's precisely the unique aspect of this legendary Brazil coach.
If Germany is always a formidable world power in football then the great German coaches always had a great role to play in it. Joachim Low, the present German football team manager has come from this long tradition of top football tacticians that the country offered to the world football. In FIFA World Cup 2014 Germany is one of the top favorites for the title thanks to the great constellation of playmakers, scorers and defenders but also because of the shrewd managerial abilities of Joachim Low. Typical defensive football of Germany by Jurgen Klinsman with new and invigorated attacking play with more depth in the midfield has been taken further by this great coach who first came in touch with the national team as the assistant coach of Jurgen Klinsman. Introducing a complete and well furnished B team to see and explore the potential of young football prodigies, more enhanced fitness coaching and array of tactical experiments with the attacking style of play in mind - these 3 aspects gave birth to a team that is equipped with every kind of football weapon on the field and can take on any opponent.
As the captain and national team player Deschamps won about everything, World Cup title in 1998 and European championship title in 2000 and in club football he was the man to lead Marseilles to lead to Champions League victory back in 1993. Though in qualifying round the 45 year old football legend could not produce great winning streak as a manager, with more than 100 match experiences for national side he is the man who knows how to get the best out of his team. He already shown his toughness in taking hard decisions when he dropped out of form French talent Karim Benzema from the national side when the player was without a goal for consecutive matches. Taking 20 year old Juventus midfield prodigy Paul Pogba to the national side is another masterstroke of Deshcamps. As the world cup is approaching he is looking more confident and fierce to get things done in the fashion of a champion side and that is precisely the reason why Deshcamps is there in the list of world's greatest football coaches.
In a team which is dominated by world's greatest football prodigy Messi and a constellation of great talents and skilled performers, the responsibility of a team manager is crucial to the success of the team. He has to constantly take care of the motivation, potential loopholes in the combination and how to use his weapons against various opponents. Alejandro Sabella is in the list of top contenders among coaches because of his stunning qualifying round performance and great managerial skills to get all the big names strewn together in the playing style of the team. He knows the strength of Argentine football, he knows the tapestry of small passes that always made Argentina look natural and eloquent on the field and he knows how to protect his greatest weapons and his most talented players from the piercing blades of opponent defenders. Sabella is a venerator of the natural football tradition of Argentina and in a team of greatest bunch of skilled players this favor for natural style of play is ideal.
We still remember the sad moments for the entire Italy team and the coach Cesare Prandelli just following the defeat of the team in the Euro final in 2012 against Spain. We agree that the day was not for Italy and we also univocally agree that against the huge brilliance of team game Italy looked pale and toothless in that particular day but that is just one aspect of seeing his success feats as the manager of Italy team. He is the man who always stood beside the players either in nasty defeats or great wins and he is the man who never lost hopes on the abilities of his best weapons. Besides his success in guiding the team to Euro final in 2012 and to third spot in Confederations cup in 2013, he has always been heralded as a great player friendly coach. But, Prandelli knows Italy always wants to see itself in the top spot of world football than runners-up or so called name among top contenders and nothing would satisfy football lovers of this nation other than a title.
One of the greatest strikers of all time, this German goal machine is the biggest exponent among the ex-player coaches. Like his days as a player he has been a clear winner with his managerial skills as well and though he is now guiding a so called underdog side in the world football, with his tactical brilliance and game reading ability he can make some crucial difference to his team and if United States in the FIFA World Cup 2014 is seen to come up with some unpredictable upsets and reach second round, this shrewd football brain can claim to have played an important role. Klinsman as the former German coach incorporated an attacking style of play replacing traditional defensive focus of German football and guided the team to semifinal in 2006 beating all teams in the group league and thereafter except for the defeat against Italy in their last match in semifinal. Even the biggest critique of Klinsman's coaching in Germany came to favor him after the 2006 world cup. This world cup is going to be a bigger test for him as this time he has to prove with a rather mediocre team.
With 18 major titles in club and international football to his credit he is certainty one of the most sought after coaching prodigies in the world. He has already announced his retirement from the world football after the world cup and naturally if he can take Switzerland to their highest ever success in the championship and beyond it will be the befitting honor at the moment of his stepping down. Switzerland remained unbeaten throughout the qualifying round and is considered to be a dark horse that can upset many big teams. Ottmer Hitzfeld seems to have an array of secret weapons and tactics to unfold as the team progresses in the tournament and if everything goes fine we can see the team to reach up to quarterfinal or semifinal under the guidance of this coaching prodigy.
This hugely experienced coach who in the length of his career coached more than 16 teams in 8 different countries can really guide England to their ambitious world cup campaign better than anyone. He has the ability to guide a small, so called underdog team to their biggest ever success and ranking in world football and several such feats are attributed to him. Coaching Switzerland to reach up to the last 16 of world cup in 1994 after three decades or guiding Finland national team to their greatest ever FIFA ranking to 33rd spot, are just two big instances of his coaching credentials. He was the member of FIFA technical study group member for 2006 world cup. As a manager, shrewd football pundit and motivator for the team he is incomparable to anyone but how far he can take the England that is going be the biggest test for him.
This coach who has bagged successful coaching credits for many top clubs including Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and AZ is one of the most respected football managers in the world. Van Gaal is said to be an avid devotee of the tradition of the famous Total Football and incorporated attacking style of play in the Dutch side. Netherlands with some of greatest exponents of modern day football can again go up to the last four and beyond and in that case definitely Van Gaal will have a decisive role to play.
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