Spain's Up-and-Coming Coaches
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Thom Harris to explore some of the under-the-radar coaches in La Liga and discuss their eventual career pathways…
How does Michel’s fluidity at Girona work?
Who are the players Girona brought in to make the difference?
Can Garcia Pimienta make it at the elite level after Las Palmas?
How has Ernesto Valverde’s time at Barcelona influenced people’s ideas of him?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.3 | I am John McKenzie, as I always am. |
| 0:12.3 | And the other person who always am is with me too. |
| 0:15.0 | It's Mike Zimmerman, my good pal and producer. |
| 0:17.6 | Mike, how you do? |
| 0:18.6 | Life is good, John. |
| 0:19.7 | How have you been? |
| 0:20.9 | Good. It's sunny. It feels as though maybe the summer has finally arrived here in the UK. |
| 0:26.6 | So I'm feeling pretty good, yeah. But what I'm feeling most good about is the episode that |
| 0:32.1 | we have recorded today because we have just recorded another up-and-coming coaches episode. You may remember that we recorded |
| 0:39.1 | an episode with Liam Tharm and Mark Carey looking at some of their coaches that they've covered |
| 0:44.4 | in that series. Unfortunately, Tom Harris was away when we recorded that episode, and I thought |
| 0:48.1 | it would be good to get him on because he has a couple of interesting Spanish coaches to talk about. |
| 0:52.1 | So this week's episode is all Spanish managers, |
| 0:55.6 | Spanagers, you might call them. And yeah, that's what we have talked about today. And Mike, |
| 1:01.4 | you've just listened to that episode. What did you make of it? Yeah, I think this was the perfect |
| 1:05.9 | episode to compliment the one we did with Liam and Mark. You know, we weren't able to dive in to the up-and-coming |
| 1:12.3 | Spanish managers with them. And this is where time comes in. Spanagers, Mike. Spanagers. I apologize. |
| 1:17.7 | Are we still deciding whether or not it's going to be the title? I'm a little bit nervous about |
| 1:23.5 | putting that out in our feed because people may not click on it but yeah you never know we can |
| 1:28.3 | talk about this okay sounds good well what's interesting about this conversation you know is more |
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