Aspire in the World Fellows Book - 2023

/31 It’s just a summary of everything I’ve said about my philosophy and my playing style. The way we work and prepare the content, we prepare for the training sessions, how we manage the squad and our people, how we make the most of the technology. Technology is for us to serve information but technology is not information. You need to translate that technology into information. We’re talking about big data, and data can be interpreted in so many different ways. You have to also take into account the context as part of an older generation. We have to interpret data correctly and see if the data is going to be quality information. We need to bear this in mind within our daily coaching methodology, the first Could you summarize how you organize your work? thing you have to do when you get to a club is analyze it. Relationship with the media and the club are very important. For instance, at Wolves I used to talk to the media and involve them and make them part of our work. In regards to our opponents analysis. We had to define the different tasks and our approach for the game. We also invested quite a lot of time to analyze ourselves, our performance, what we have been working on, how we’re improving, what we need to keep doing if there’s room for improvement. This is a nonstop cycle from the beginning of a season. You keep turning and turning around this cycle within your methodology, your own philosophy, and work. In the end, it’s about the players. This is what we love as coaches, to be on the pitch with them. You have to bear in mind all the individual differences. It’s not true that you have to treat all the players equal, each player is different. Each player has his own background, and you have to manage them and take them to the same place with a different route. That empathy, that emotional work that you have to do to create that team spirit is very important. I think that bad times are key to create this relationship. It is very difficult to become friends with a player because you’re going to be on and off the pitch. I understand that, but we can have a good relationship, a healthy relationship based on trust. I will never lie to you. You might like it or not, but that’s important in a locker room. If you lie once, that’s it, players know. You need to make use of all the information and convey it to the players when, how, what, for everything we’ve talked about, that’s very important for them to have that space to express themselves. We go back to commitment to convincing them and then demands and clear rules, and also have internal rules in the locker room that they come up with themselves. MASTERCLASS