#95 What are the differences between club managers and international managers?
Soccer 101
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🗓️ 22 April 2022
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What are the qualities that make for a successful club manager? And what are the qualities that makes for a good international manager? How are these roles similar, and how are they different?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome for Soccer 101, the podcast where we scratch your soccer riches and answer the questions you never knew you had. |
| 0:22.0 | Today, we're looking at managers. When you don't get them right, you end up like Manchester United |
| 0:26.7 | over the last decade, or my local chilies where the bathrooms are worse than a New York City train |
| 0:31.3 | stations. When you do get them right, you get success like Liverpool or my other local |
| 0:36.2 | chilies where I only have to say the usual before I get my honey chapoltee chicken crisper's. |
| 0:41.0 | But there are two types of managers, domestic and international, with vastly different responsibilities and pressures. |
| 0:49.3 | What qualities make for a successful club manager? |
| 0:51.7 | How does an international manager reach the highest heights? What are |
| 0:55.7 | their similarities and their differences? My name's Ryan Bailey joining me for this managerial chat to |
| 1:01.6 | answer those questions. I'm my good friend Taylor Rockwell. Hello. Hello, buddy. And Graham |
| 1:05.8 | Rothman, hello. Hello, Ryan. Very good to have you both here, Jens. I'm sorry for talking about |
| 1:09.9 | Chili's ride off the bat. I'm just quite hungry today, must admit. Why don't we get the ball rolling straight away with a few definitions? Graham, could you just briefly tell us what a club manager is and what a club manager's role is? Sure, so to strip it all the way back, soccer is, broadly speaking, split into two spheres. So you have club |
| 1:28.6 | soccer and you have international soccer. A club team has no restrictions beyond budgetary |
| 1:34.4 | restrictions and any league transfer restrictions. So they can sign pretty much whoever they want. |
| 1:40.8 | Their mission is to simply build the best team they can. So at Premier League level or at any |
| 1:46.9 | professional level in one of the big five European leagues, you'll have teams consisting of players |
| 1:52.2 | from around the world. And a club manager is the person who is in charge of that team, who leads |
| 1:59.4 | that team. Maybe they make transfers, but they certainly are |
| 2:02.6 | in a, they are certainly briefed with putting the best team possible on the pitch. And an international |
| 2:07.9 | manager, Graham? So on the other side, you have international soccer, which is very restricted. And |
| 2:13.2 | international teams, you can only select players who have been born in or have a passport or |
| 2:18.1 | have citizenship from a certain country. And it's meant to be a reflection. An international |
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