Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The 'suits' from Mourinho and Guardiola

The football fan now read anything that says Mourinho. The same happens with Guardiola. Portuguese people expect a bombastic statement, disqualifying the contrary, arrogant explanation of its decisions. Catalan, expected words wrapped in simplicity, irony-laden sweets, canapés stuffed with humility. Although this is the image that transcends them, as if they had made those tailored suits, are not the only ones hanging in the wardrobe.

Wear different clothes according to occasion. The first, and which I know are like lightning on falling pressure and criticism that do not want them falling to their players. Mourinho not only was the translator for Bobby Robson at Barca, and Portuguese is the scowling, or the superb winning coach who is angry with life.

They say the few who know him well it is a warm and emotional type, who wears the suit for the cameras is not the same as wearing at home, which is generous to the players, their flame wars are momentary, like thunder and lightning illuminating the sky as the water floods the land. Decided not to follow the footsteps of his father when he was young and was studying physical education career.

There he realized that the formation of his thought was the fruit of the union of two disciplines that at first sight seem incompatible, and football knowledge. I knew if I kept trying the ball awkwardly in training camp, would never be a crack as he had ever dreamed. However, they knew that if he applied his unquestionable leadership, his natural tendency to study and understand the complex aspects of the study, would someday be in the top coaches in the world.

Guardiola is different. Dress brand of clothes. Has a culture of lifelong club. Obsessively seeks to make happy the mason who gave him life. For Pep, his father is an example of integrity and effort, qualities that seeks to reflect and convey to his players. Behind the three-day beard, those thin ties and stylish, these Italian shoes, is the son of a 'palette' (so called the masons in Spain).

To the press, put the dress simple, the humble, everyday. His statements did not pierce their ears, measuring his words with a tape measure, as if his thoughts had been built with the cement and brick. Try to be modest, sometimes even submissive. Perhaps the experience of leaving home at 13 to go to the farmhouse, we proved that when it is new it is best to keep away.

In his palette, mixing Guardiola Cruyff's influence as a coach, precision tactical Van Gaal, Rijkaard Temperance, chats with Menotti, Bielsa and Pekerman. Combine blue with red, yellow and green, but all combinations give the orange, the orange of Holland, in that Clockwork Orange. What Mourinho is another thing.

Is intelligence and knowledge staged as if it were to play several characters in the same work. Sometimes preferred tactic is imposed to show. Other than your computer sound like symphony orchestra and not a rock band. So be it classical or rock and roll, the results always smiling. Compare to each other makes no sense, unless we talk about success.

Both are perfectionists who love books and music. They are leaders, charismatic with different definitions. Concepts differ in football as anybody. Guardiola is predictable and Mourinho chameleon. But now that will put their strategies in view of all before the three classics that are coming, there will be sufficient grounds for the viewer to identify with one or the other.

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