There are different ways to manage players and teach and educate - no one style is the right way, as it has to fit each coach's personality.
Alan Black of Goal.com writes about the parenting style of Sir Alex Ferguson, and how that context of teaching and coaching appears to be a dying breed.
Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United refers to his players as “boys” and calls them “son,” when speaking to them of matters most important.
His “sons” grow up to call him “father.” Both Beckham and Ronaldo have described him as such.
Ferguson is the last of the great British coaching daddies.
He ends a line that stretches through England from Herbert Chapman to Alf Ramsey and Don Revie.
In Scotland, it was Jock Stein, Ferguson’s own soccer “father.”
These men grew up and played in an era when daddies and their sons were the only people inside soccer stadiums.
Women were secretaries in the front office, and tea makers.
It was an age when daddy lifted junior over the turnstile, a tradition now gone in the age of season tickets and seats. It was daddy who showed his son that losing control in moments of joy and loss was acceptable, and normal, during ninety minutes on a Saturday.
Just don’t cry in the real world, son.
But the old-fashioned coach is rapidly going out of style.
The internationalism of club soccer, and the supremacy of the star player, has diminished the need for parenting.
Younger coaches treat their players as equals, hoping to bond as a team, instead of family. Servitude to one tribe is no longer for life.
http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/85/england/2009/10/27/1586445/black-attack-the-end-of-the-coaching-daddies
His “sons” grow up to call him “father.” Both Beckham and Ronaldo have described him as such.
Ferguson is the last of the great British coaching daddies.
He ends a line that stretches through England from Herbert Chapman to Alf Ramsey and Don Revie.
In Scotland, it was Jock Stein, Ferguson’s own soccer “father.”
These men grew up and played in an era when daddies and their sons were the only people inside soccer stadiums.
Women were secretaries in the front office, and tea makers.
It was an age when daddy lifted junior over the turnstile, a tradition now gone in the age of season tickets and seats. It was daddy who showed his son that losing control in moments of joy and loss was acceptable, and normal, during ninety minutes on a Saturday.
Just don’t cry in the real world, son.
But the old-fashioned coach is rapidly going out of style.
The internationalism of club soccer, and the supremacy of the star player, has diminished the need for parenting.
Younger coaches treat their players as equals, hoping to bond as a team, instead of family. Servitude to one tribe is no longer for life.
http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/85/england/2009/10/27/1586445/black-attack-the-end-of-the-coaching-daddies
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