The Coaching Drug Calling Sven and Klinsi
By: Bob | September 14th, 2006
We’ll probably never know what it is like to be a world class football manager. The chance to stand on a sideline with one of the best views in the park, wear a tracksuit with your initials on it and deal with high priced egos on a daily basis. It certainly sounds fun and evidently it is addictive. How else can you explain the never-ending recycling of managers around the world?
Today, we learn that a couple of big name coaches are, not surprisingly, interested in returning to the sport we all love. Former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson is sitting by his phone waiting for a call from one of England’s top clubs.
He told The Sun: “Arsenal? Liverpool? Manchester? They’re all big clubs, and any of those would be good.”
None of those clubs, however, have help wanted signs posted on their windows at the moment.
While Sven wants to return to the game ASAP, former Germany coach Jurgen Klinsmann is a bit more vague with his timetable. He has his eyes on the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, but has denied reports that he is being courted to coach the United States. For now, he is leading the typical German expat lifestyle of taking his kids to school in California.
And then there is Marcello Lippi, the man who won the whole enchilada with Italy this past summer. He has decided that he doesn’t want anything to do with being a supervisor of the Azzurri and who can blame him? That is not nearly as exciting as the high you get from the coaching drug.
Category: World Football
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Poor Sven, I see senility is moving in early.
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