One small Spanish province has provided an impressive number of elite European football managers. Why?
, sporting director Txiki Begiristain, assistant coach Juanma Lillo and goalkeeping coach Xabier Mancisidor are all former Real Sociedad figures born within 50km of the club’s ground. Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen are level on points with Bayern Munich at the top of theAll of these have their own individual personalities, tactical preferences and styles of working.
“But Etxarri inculcated in us a love of football. He was the one we debated ideas with at training; why we had to be one metre more to this side, why we should turn in this way. We had that interest to learn things.” “People would complain we are too defensive,” Etxarri says. “If a team is scoring lots, it has good forwards; if it is conceding lots, its defenders are not the best. But if all the games are 0-0, 1-0, 0-1, 1-0, that is down to the coach, to the organisation of the team.”
“Lopetegui is very serious,” Etxarri says. “Unai too. He wants to control everything, from the first minute, and then he gets in a foul mood on the bench, always gesturing. I was always very demanding as a coach too. We are like that. When we get to the stadium, we go half-crazy.”
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