In football how much the players are important,as important are the coaches and staffs.,managing a football team and football players is also becoming a part of football which makes football exciting.From olden days to modern days football ,football management had a very important role to play,Transforming a ordinary or dismal team to championship winning team.Now days managing a football Team or a football club is very much demanding and daunting task,the mangers must cope with the pressure from team management and from the fans and public.
For me there were and are few men who made the difference in football management.
“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.” -Bill Shankly "At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters." - Bill Shankley
William"Bill"shankly (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981)-He was one of Britain's most successful and respected football managers. Shankly retired from playing in 1949 .He started working as a manager for Carlisle United , Grimsby Town , Workington ,Huddersfield Town and Liverpool.Even with his distinguished qualities he couldn't stay much in any of the First four clubs he was working due to some disputes or lack of commitment from the club mangemnts .In 1959 bill shankly became the Liverpool manger and his time in liverpool made every one realize that he was one of the gr8 mangers in English premier league.He took Liverpool a club in the bottom half of the old Second Division to English championship winning team in 1st division and Europe championship winning team,he changed the mentality of the club.now also the Liverpool fans consider him as the legendary manger who started the legacy at Liverpool.
Marinus ("Rinus") Jacobus Hendricus Michels - Michels became most notable for his coaching achievements, having won the European Cup with Ajax and the Spanish league with Barcelona, and having had four tenures as coach of the Netherlands national team, whom he led to reach the final match of the 1974 World Cup and to win the 1988 European Championship.He is credited with the invention of a major football tactic known as "Total Football" in the 1970s,and was named "coach of the century" by FIFA in 1999.
"I always greatly admired his leadership. Both as a player and as a coach there is nobody who taught me as much as him. He was a sportsman who put the Netherlands on the map in such a way that almost everybody still benefits from it. There is no one I learnt from more than Rinus Michels. I often tried to imitate him, and that's the greatest compliment one could give." -Johan Cruyff
"The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good in their natural game. Then, and only then, can we begin to outline the general tactics."
~Helenio Herrera
Helenio Herrera (10 April 1910 in Buenos Aires – 9 November 1997 in Venice) was a French-Argentine football player and manager.Herrera had a relatively modest career as a player but, with 16 major titles, he became not only one of the most successful, but also one of the most influential managers in the history of the game.
he became the manger of Puteaux, Herrera then rejoined Stade Français for the third time ,two times as a player and for the third time as manger. After three trophy less seasons as manger then Herrera moved to Spain, where he spent the next six years in minor stints with Real Valladolid, Atlético Madrid, CD Málaga, Deportivo de La Coruña and Sevilla FC, then two year tenure with Lisbon side CF Os Belenenses .later returning to Spain, he managed Spanish giants FC Barcelona, but faced several problems, including disagreements between him and star player Ladislao Kubala obliged him to leave the club in 1960.
He then emigrated to Italy and signed with Internazionale(1960-1968), winning two European Champions Cup in his stay with the club, where he changed the 5-3-2 tactic known as the Verrou (door bolt) to include larger flexibility for counter attacks - and the Catenaccio(is a tactical system in football with an emphasis on defence. it means a highly organized and effective back line defense which is intended to prevent goals) was born. During this time he was also coaching Spain (between 1959 and 1962) and Italy (1966-67). In 1968 he moved to AS Roma (winning one cup), but returned for a one year stint with Inter for the 1973-74 season. Herrera then suffered a heart attack, did not want to coach full time anymore and retired in Venice
There are many mangers i should have wrote about that who made the differences but i felt these are the men i thought who made differences in football management that created history in the game of football.
