Under Fire: The High-Stakes World of Coaching

Half a league, ten coaches on the asphalt and some more with tachycardia due to anxiety in anticipation of dismissal.

The sheer power that destroys them. So good when they arrive with their magic recipes, so bad when they leave with fearful explanations, to avoid a veto when they return to the transfer market.

In the middle, a laconic statement, the same for everyone, with hypocritical wishes for a better future, without hiding the pleasure generated by their outings. The management rests with it.

The rope breaks on the weak side, after a thorough scrutiny of its results, regardless of whether there is a process or not, or whether external factors influenced the performance.

This is the most comfortable way to face emergencies.

The support lasts up to five minutes before they are fired, although it is assumed, some time before, when journalists involved in certain clubs emphasize their mistakes.

The same ones who approved his appointments, loquared without forgiveness for mistakes.

Heavy burden with stress, conflict, bad character, with violent reactions to criticism.

The reasons for their dismissal are the bad relationship with leaders and players, the bad results, the wrong decisions, for not being models of transparency in their management and in the relationship of footballers and for working with businessmen.

For his contradictions, his whims, for refusing to play the bosses’ favorite player, for his arrogant rudeness in his relationships, for the challenging confrontation with the press, or for not having the knowledge to train or direct.

Football coach, well paid in most cases, on the verge of a heart attack, close to the street, dressing room puppet, direct cause of successes and failures, sentenced to prison for life

Football coaches who think they own the show. Refugees, idle, as commentators in the media, where they learn, like pontiffs, what they did not know on the field. There are some who, gloying, say where they study, but never manage to learn.