and in fact if we are very honest as football coaches that we all are in this room what is
the job of a football head coach or manager to have a clear idea of how my team should play
let us have a look again at liverpool and jurgen klopp if you look at their development and let's
just have a close look at their two at their three strikers they have mo salah
they have roberto firmino and they have Sadio Mane three foreign players from three different
countries and all three of them two of them i had myself roberto firmino was my
last signing in hoffenheim i can tell you all those three players including mo salah
where when they came to europe or now to liverpool not natural born ball ball winners none of them
they were not the kind of players that everybody said wow they are pressing machines
no so all the things that happened at liverpool was the job of the coach and his coaching staff
the way they played in the last three four years on that high level this intense kind of football
was the job of the coach and this shows you what is possible and what can happen if a coach with
a with a mindset and with a clear idea of how his team should play what can happen let me tell you
one other thing and this was the same was true with our leipzig team supposed jurgen klopp or
myself or julian nagelsmann or ralph haasenhittle had informed our players at 12 o'clock at midnight
we will meet in our training ground in one hour's time and then we have a meeting in the locker room
at one o'clock in the middle of the night and then we play two times 15 minutes 11 against 11.
two teams they would have played in schlaf as we say by sleep or in this automatically
high-speed pressing counter-pressing transitional football because it was in their hearts
in their brains and in their veins and in fact if we are very honest as football
coaches that we all are in this room what is the job of a football head coach or manager
to have a clear idea of how my team should play this can be more the pep guardiola style or the
diego simeone style or the hansi flick style or the jurgen knucklesman style or the jurgen klopp
style those are variations different areas where pep guardiola is more the kind of coach who likes
technical players whereas jurgen klopp more likes the heavy metal band players you know but
what they all have in common is that they exactly know how this kind of football they
want to play what it looks like they have in their brains the video of the perfect game
they have it in their minds and on their minds and the job of a football manager is to transform
this idea of football into the heads hearts brains veins of your players this is what
i tell motivation motivation for me is a transfer of belief conviction idea of football
the other things to to have a uh um a good speech in front of the game before the game
that you try to yeah to to inflame to inspire the players this has got nothing to do in my
opinion with motivation this is inspiration but motivation is a transformation of my ideal
but in order to do that you need to be aware what kind of football do you really want to play
now i'm not talking about a bit a little bit of this a little bit of that maybe a little bit of
that a little bit of pressing i mean come on what is a little bit of pressing a little bit
of pressing is like a little bit of pregnant i mean either you are pregnant or not either you
want to play pressing or not but not please not a little bit of presence but you know what i mean
the idea needs to be in your brains yourself first in order to be able to educate to teach to develop
your own team you need to make sure what kind of football do i want to play and this is what all
the top coaches in europe have in common and the the great thing for me the exciting thing
is to watch those different kind of i mean if you see even without glasses atletico madrid play
not knowing maybe you come from a different planet and you see them play from the very first minute
you realize this is diegus diego simeone football this is thomas tuchel football this is jurgen
klopp football this is whatsoever football and this is what it's all about in my opinion this
is one of the the major jobs of football coaches to make this transformation happen
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