The Art of Analysing Up-and-Coming Coaches
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Mark Carey and Liam Tharme to explore the ideas of some up and coming managers (Still, Motta, Fonseca) and to dig into the deeper question of how do we decide if a manager is *good* or not…
What is Will Still’s tactical approach?
What is the correlation between Thiago Motta’s deep build up with strong defensive numbers?
Why is Paolo Fonseca’s Lille so good on the ball?
Which of these coaches are going to succeed?
Football’s best up-and-coming managers: https://theathletic.com/5339076/2024/03/25/thiago-motta-up-and-coming-managers/
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. |
| 0:07.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. I'm John McKenzie and I'm joined as I often |
| 0:12.3 | am by my good friend and producer, Mike Zimmerman. Mike, how are you? |
| 0:16.0 | I'm doing good, John, and I want to change things up a bit and kind of flip the script on you |
| 0:20.6 | as we tease this |
| 0:21.4 | episode. |
| 0:22.4 | Giving the audience a little peek behind the curtain, you titled the running order for this |
| 0:26.3 | episode as cool coaches. |
| 0:28.6 | So what makes a coach cool in your eyes? |
| 0:31.5 | And the ones we really dive into, you know, Will Still, Tiago Mota and Paolo Fonseca, |
| 0:36.2 | what makes them cool? |
| 0:37.3 | Well, this is the big question, I think, of the episode because I think it's very easy. will still, Tiago Mota and Paolo Fonseca, what makes them cool? |
| 0:41.5 | Well, this is the big question, I think, of the episode, because I think it's very easy every season to find coaches who have a sort of outlier season, who achieve something |
| 0:47.1 | with a team that maybe you don't expect them to achieve with, and then immediately they |
| 0:50.9 | enter the sort of parlance, and people start talking about whether or not they could fit into this club or that club further up the ladder. |
| 0:58.7 | And so, yeah, I think for me, the big question that we're asking throughout this episode is like, which one of these coaches or which ones of these coaches should we be taking seriously in a bigger picture sense? |
| 1:09.2 | So, yeah, it was great to have leum and mark on the show |
| 1:12.6 | and they've been going through a series for the athletic just looking at some of these coaches so |
| 1:18.5 | yeah we we did focus on those three in particular but we're also asking these bigger picture |
| 1:23.1 | questions of just what is it that actually allows you to determine if a coach is good or not. |
| 1:28.7 | And if you're interested in reading that series on The Athletic, the link will be in the |
| 1:33.2 | description and the show notes of this episode. So please do go on over there and check it out. |
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