I was reading this week about the coaching setup in cycling that has propelled the track team to gold medal after gold medal in Beijing. One thing that stood out was how varied the coaching staff were.
To start things off you had Keen who was barely out of his 30's at the time he took over. Dave Brailsford has taken over from him and came from a business background. Steve Peters has come in from a background in forensic psychiatry and has done wonders with the mental coaching side of things, so much so that he's regularly rented out to other sports.
In football by contrast, rarely do we see coaches given a chance unless they played the game themselves, even with evidence from the likes of Mourinho and Wenger who have achieved wonderful things despite not playing the game.
Does football need to accept more ideas from outside the game?
To start things off you had Keen who was barely out of his 30's at the time he took over. Dave Brailsford has taken over from him and came from a business background. Steve Peters has come in from a background in forensic psychiatry and has done wonders with the mental coaching side of things, so much so that he's regularly rented out to other sports.
In football by contrast, rarely do we see coaches given a chance unless they played the game themselves, even with evidence from the likes of Mourinho and Wenger who have achieved wonderful things despite not playing the game.
Does football need to accept more ideas from outside the game?
