Rafa Benitez: My Coaching Secrets - Part Two
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
The Overlap
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Welcome to It Was What It Was, and Part Two of our special look back at the remarkable career of Rafa Benitez - with the man himself!
In this second part - Rafa, Jonathan and Rob look back at Rafa's arrival at Anfield, his influence on the Premier League, and then head backstage to explain the moments and decisions behind that iconic Champions League triumph in Istanbul.
Join us as Rafa takes us inside the moments that defined his legacy in England, and cemented his place in Liverpool folklore.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to It Was What It Was, the home of the Overlaps Football History podcast. |
| 0:13.5 | Today we're excited to bring you the second and final part of our conversation with Rafa Benitez. |
| 0:18.6 | If you miss part one, we'd recommend going back to hear the legendary manager discuss his life and career before moving to the Premier League. |
| 0:26.8 | In this episode, we'll dive into Raffa's journey to Liverpool, exploring how he revolutionised the Premier League, achieved a Champions League in FA Cup victory, and cemented his status as one of modern football's most influential figures. |
| 0:42.2 | So there is this extraordinary week in June 2004 where Jose is appointed at Chelsea. |
| 0:50.1 | And they've had foreign managers before, but I don't think in the same vein from outside. |
| 0:54.5 | And you're appointed at Liverpool. |
| 0:56.6 | And you might correct me, but it feels like the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal and Spain, have this very strong coaching tradition, which I think kind of starts really with you and Joe's in this period. |
| 1:09.5 | And you look at the Premier League now, |
| 1:15.2 | seven Premier League managers and coaches come from Portugal and Spain. |
| 1:16.7 | That's more than a third. |
| 1:19.7 | Portugal and Spain, they have some rivalry historically. |
| 1:21.1 | A little bit, yeah. |
| 1:25.4 | So then they did have too many great coaches at this time. But they, I used to, I have a software that we used to do, |
| 1:30.2 | it's an integral methodology that there was to do the physical exercises with the ball, |
| 1:38.6 | to be sure that 80% of the time you have the ball and then you are training physically with the |
| 1:43.5 | ball. So every exercise, we have the control of what means from the ball and then you are training physically with the ball. So every exercise we have the control of what means that from the physiological point of view, |
| 1:50.6 | then you know what you are doing and we use the ball all the time apart from 20% |
| 1:54.9 | that you have to go to the gym, things like that. |
| 1:58.0 | In Portugal they have the tactical approach that there was no gym and everything |
| 2:04.2 | was on the pitch. So then Frader, that was a professor in the university, they created this |
| 2:08.8 | system and then the coaches they... And this is periodization. Is that right? No. The pre-discation is just |
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