I was pleased when Cesar Menotti was the Mexican Coach
for Soccer, it happened in the 90’s. He is
a very knowledgeable man on human affairs; people call him a philosopher. He is more than that, he is practicing philosopher. When coaching Argentina, he
had to deal with Maradona, Valdano and was the one who started the soccer
coaching tradition in Argentina winning the first Wold Cup for Argentina when
Valdano played the final against Holland.
Mexico was not ready to play at the level that Menotti wanted (I do not
know if it will be with our “piojo” coach, who hardly can speak a coherent word). Menotti was fired because nobody understood
what he said. There are article written
about Menotti, which are tied to what Valdano talks about during the interview
copied below:
Is there room for Menotti in the modern game?
August 31, 2007
…His vision of the game is a world away from his younger counterparts
with their earphones, laptop computers, designer suits, statistics and emphasis
on compactness and organization.
Menotti prefers the word
“ideas” to “tactics” and once described a footballer as “a privileged
interpreter of the dreams and feelings of thousands of people”.
Menotti took charge of Argentina in 1974 when the team had earned an
unsavoury reputation for violence and gamesmanship.
Under his leadership, Argentina reverted to the flowing,
attacking game which they had used until the 1960s, the national team became
the priority instead of the clubs and Argentina once again became a major
soccer power.
Menotti went on to coach Barcelona and Atletico Madrid in Spain, Boca
Juniors in his homeland, Uruguay’s Penarol and the Mexican national side.
At 68, it could be the swansong for a man who is still much admired
around the world. Can he reverse his recent trend of failure and prove there is
still room for an old romantic in an increasingly ruthless sport?
I would say that romanticism should not go away. Valdano somehow wants to retake what Menotti
left in today’s world. Valdano was trained by
him and knows that soccer should not be for the world of Slatan Ibrahimovic:
Ibrahimović has been involved in several violent
incidents with teammates, some of which have gone viral on the internet. In
2011, Ibrahimović kicked teammate Antonio Cassano
in the face while Cassano was speaking to reporters.[109]
Ibrahimović has also kicked teammates Christian
Wilhelmsson and Rodney Strasser
during training, both caught on camera.[110][111]
After a 2004 international friendly against Holland,
Ajax teammate Rafael
van der Vaart publicly accused Ibrahimović of deliberately injuring
him during the game. Ibrahimović responded by threatening to break both of Van
der Vaart's legs.[112]
Ibrahimović also punched Ajax teammate Mido
in the dressing room.[112]
Ibrahimović had a falling-out with Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola,
culminating in a dressing room incident in which Ibrahimović threw a training
kit box across the room and screamed insults at Guardiola. Guardiola eventually
refused to speak to Ibrahimović and loaned him out to A.C. Milan.[113]
Barcelona vice-president Carles Vilarrubi reported that Ibrahimović threatened
to publicly beat up Guardiola if he was not released to A.C. Milan.[114]
In 2010, Ibrahimović was involved in a training ground
fist-fight with A.C. Milan teammate Oguchi Onyewu,
after Ibrahimović made a two-footed tackle on him, then headbutted him. The
session was abandoned after the two players were separated, and Ibrahimović
suffered a broken rib. Onyewu had accused Ibrahimović of repeatedly insulting
him.[112][115]
In March 2011, Ibrahimović was given a three-match ban
for punching Bari defender Marco Rossi in the
stomach during a game.[116]
He received another three-match ban in February 2012 for slapping Napoli player
Salvatore Aronica.[117]
After Sweden's 1–0 victory over the Faroe Islands in October
2012, Faroes captain Frodi Benjaminsen
accused Ibrahimović of foul play and insults, describing him as
"arrogant", "childish", "ignorant" and a
"dirty player".[118]
In November 2012, Ibrahimović received a two-match ban
for kicking St Etienne goalkeeper Stéphane
Ruffier in the chest.[119][120]
In December 2012, Ibrahimović was accused by Lyon defender Dejan Lovren
and president Jean-Michel Aulas
of deliberately stamping on Lovren's head.[121]
In February 2013, UEFA handed Ibrahimović a two-match ban for stamping on Valencia winger Andrés Guardado.[122][123]
In March 2013, PSG winger Lucas Moura
claimed that Ibrahimović regularly insulted team-mates, stating “He always asks
for the ball and insults a lot. He is sometimes a bit arrogant and complains.”[124]
In May 2013, Ibrahimović was filmed screaming at sporting director Leonardo
after PSG's title victory.[125]
On December 2013, Ibrahimović caused controversy in
his homeland after he was quoted suggesting that the country's female
footballers should be rewarded with bicycles instead of cars.[126]
La Jornada
Saturday February 15, 2014 , p. a36
At the same time that the Argentina soccer team debuted in the World 1978 , the Buenos Aires writer Jorge Luis Borges dictated a lecture on immortality. The fact that it could be an insignificant coincidence made sense, because in that city people, amid one of the most ferocious dictatorships, celebrating the crazed "mass" football. It was probably one of the occurrences with which the writer showed disdain for the keywords it considered vulgar .
For Borges , football was aesthetically ugly and compared with malice, with cockfighting , which considered more beautiful , as occurring " right there , next to each other , are ideal for short-sighted ."
This distancing between football and the world of culture was for a long time irreducible. The world of thought reduced the game to a condition of social anesthesia. Football, for many, was and still is the opium of the people. Not for Jorge Valdano , former player to hang his boots took the pen and microphone to think otherwise .
“If football was out of thought is that the intellectual left us alone ," says one who was champion with Argentina in the 1986 World Cup . "The responsibility is theirs, not ours."
Valdano is famous for turning football into a permanent territory of reflection, because he is convinced that a sport that brings crowds, aroused such intense passions and ritualized relationships, deserves to be thought otherwise.
“Now begins to feel that he lost intellectuals fear football, to reflect on the subject, at least to try to understand why so many people move and why move so many emotions," he says.
Valdano not play the stereotypical man prone to hyperbole and exclamations football. When he speaks carefully select each expression, as if the speech result in a possible piece of paper and not in the air . As he settles into the chair an elegant Reforma, aristocracy or exhibits certain classicism, as if that also express their idea of the perfect football. For that reason, some have committed considers exaggerations - and - so common in the sports media, and called it the philosopher or professor of football. He has even been described as a poet, but clarifies that way to insult. “It suited my mother insulted me like that “jokes to make clear that there are serious nicknames that have hung.
The strangeness of his speech in football comes from a kind of prestige that sport has had among the intellectual elites, Valdano believes. That grimace of contempt that people of letters shown in public smelling a ball as attributed to old prejudice against popular expressions.
“Distrust of intellectuals football has also been a distrust of the mass," Valdano thinks. “And in football the dough is very sectarian, because there is a polarization of feelings: To enjoy this game is necessary for one love a team and allow hatred to another That frightens intellectuals, because in that Manichean division the nuances and thinking just disappears.”
Thinking and building was then reviews the other way that Valdano dribbled with the ball. From his years as a player of the Argentina team has distinguished himself as a man setting out his ideas. And that is your personal style. "For people in the world of letters arriving soccer have been several , from Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Juan Roberto Fontanarrosa or Villoro . What had happened is that no one crossed the bridge from the world of football to the world of letters " he says. "There are more players who make the same as me, but I touched my role to represent intellectual footballer ," says laughs and so you do not take it too seriously .
He says that when he traveled to Argentina towards the World Cup in Spain in 1982 , in the throes of the Falklands war waged by the dictatorship , just got on the plane the team received a manual in which they were instructed how respond in interviews. Valdano asked the then national coach Cesar Luis Menotti , what to do with the document. “El flaco” replied sharply: "Do what your conscience dictate you, regardless of respect “ And Valdano decided to review in his own ideas. So much so that when he came to Real Madrid as a player in 1984, he took over as antiwar and socialist, a statement that caused controversy at the time.
"Often they are criticized by players always answer the same, but it often happens that those who attack are precisely those that always ask the same, then do not have much right to complain ," Valdano answers .
For him, the players are not stupid, as touts popular opinion. In fact, says that major players usually possess a temper that sometimes saves in mischief and lucidity. “At the highest level, players are virtually no fools," he says with conviction.
Saturday February 15, 2014 , p. a36
At the same time that the Argentina soccer team debuted in the World 1978 , the Buenos Aires writer Jorge Luis Borges dictated a lecture on immortality. The fact that it could be an insignificant coincidence made sense, because in that city people, amid one of the most ferocious dictatorships, celebrating the crazed "mass" football. It was probably one of the occurrences with which the writer showed disdain for the keywords it considered vulgar .
For Borges , football was aesthetically ugly and compared with malice, with cockfighting , which considered more beautiful , as occurring " right there , next to each other , are ideal for short-sighted ."
This distancing between football and the world of culture was for a long time irreducible. The world of thought reduced the game to a condition of social anesthesia. Football, for many, was and still is the opium of the people. Not for Jorge Valdano , former player to hang his boots took the pen and microphone to think otherwise .
“If football was out of thought is that the intellectual left us alone ," says one who was champion with Argentina in the 1986 World Cup . "The responsibility is theirs, not ours."
Valdano is famous for turning football into a permanent territory of reflection, because he is convinced that a sport that brings crowds, aroused such intense passions and ritualized relationships, deserves to be thought otherwise.
“Now begins to feel that he lost intellectuals fear football, to reflect on the subject, at least to try to understand why so many people move and why move so many emotions," he says.
Valdano not play the stereotypical man prone to hyperbole and exclamations football. When he speaks carefully select each expression, as if the speech result in a possible piece of paper and not in the air . As he settles into the chair an elegant Reforma, aristocracy or exhibits certain classicism, as if that also express their idea of the perfect football. For that reason, some have committed considers exaggerations - and - so common in the sports media, and called it the philosopher or professor of football. He has even been described as a poet, but clarifies that way to insult. “It suited my mother insulted me like that “jokes to make clear that there are serious nicknames that have hung.
The strangeness of his speech in football comes from a kind of prestige that sport has had among the intellectual elites, Valdano believes. That grimace of contempt that people of letters shown in public smelling a ball as attributed to old prejudice against popular expressions.
“Distrust of intellectuals football has also been a distrust of the mass," Valdano thinks. “And in football the dough is very sectarian, because there is a polarization of feelings: To enjoy this game is necessary for one love a team and allow hatred to another That frightens intellectuals, because in that Manichean division the nuances and thinking just disappears.”
Thinking and building was then reviews the other way that Valdano dribbled with the ball. From his years as a player of the Argentina team has distinguished himself as a man setting out his ideas. And that is your personal style. "For people in the world of letters arriving soccer have been several , from Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Juan Roberto Fontanarrosa or Villoro . What had happened is that no one crossed the bridge from the world of football to the world of letters " he says. "There are more players who make the same as me, but I touched my role to represent intellectual footballer ," says laughs and so you do not take it too seriously .
He says that when he traveled to Argentina towards the World Cup in Spain in 1982 , in the throes of the Falklands war waged by the dictatorship , just got on the plane the team received a manual in which they were instructed how respond in interviews. Valdano asked the then national coach Cesar Luis Menotti , what to do with the document. “El flaco” replied sharply: "Do what your conscience dictate you, regardless of respect “ And Valdano decided to review in his own ideas. So much so that when he came to Real Madrid as a player in 1984, he took over as antiwar and socialist, a statement that caused controversy at the time.
"Often they are criticized by players always answer the same, but it often happens that those who attack are precisely those that always ask the same, then do not have much right to complain ," Valdano answers .
For him, the players are not stupid, as touts popular opinion. In fact, says that major players usually possess a temper that sometimes saves in mischief and lucidity. “At the highest level, players are virtually no fools," he says with conviction.
Triathlon should create better humans being than
soccer. Success in triathlon requires
many skills and they are not covered by a team work when performing. The performer (triathlete) should be able to
introduce the coaches in himself/herself to perform well, many years before
the task of performing. Precisely, the goal of education is the introduction of significant people in our way of thinking and behaving for good or bad. The way Valdano introduced Menotti in himself.
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