4 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 PIONEERS CHAPTER 2 THE NEW BREED CHAPTER 3 16 MODERN MEN'S MANAGERS 24 CHAPTER 4 TRAILBLAZING WOMEN'S MANAGERS GLOSSARY 46 INDEX 47 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 47 36
Chapter 1 4 PIONEERS Managing a soccer team is a difficult job at the highest levels Club managers have to game-plan each week for new opponents stay up with the current trends in tactics and help the sporting director identify which players to sign The manager then needs to mold those players who might
Managers can experience a lot of stress during games come from all over the globe into a winning team Meanwhile national team managers get very little time to work with players They also have a limited pool of players to pick from since the players all have to be from that country Often national teams get to practice only a few weeks per year But when big tournaments such as the World Cup or Women’s World Cup roll around all eyes are on them Because of that pressure many managers don’t last long But those who are successful can stay with a club or national team for many years And some of them gain truly legendary status in the sport THE GREAT INNOVATOR Soccer as we know it today started in the mid-1800s in England Though some women played in the early days for a long time the sport was mostly limited to men And by the early 1900s athletic clubs began forming men’s soccer teams to represent them Usually members of the club recruited players they wanted on their side Managers didn’t have much say in player selection Thanks to managers such as Herbert Chapman that began to change Chapman managed four teams in England from 1907 to 1934 He was one of the first managers to focus on the 5
