There is a coach at Athletico, Juan Carlos Osorio

Juan Carlos Osorio. The name itself is imposing. I don’t know him, but it seems to match his features and his personal and intellectual background.

Colombian from Santa Rosa de Cabal (land of liquor), he was educated at a Dutch school, trained at Manchester City’s English school and has a master’s degree at the University of Liverpool football – read the coach’s full profile here.

Among his master’s subjects, he studied the history of the Scottish coach Bill Shanklywhose statue opens Anfield Stadium, in Liverpool, with the famous lesson: ‘Some people believe that football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with this attitude. I can assure you that football is much, much more important.’

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With the same ability he has to give a lecture or lecture in his native language, Spanish, Juan Carlos speaks in English and French. That’s why he was recommended as a football coach due to his identity card and diploma from UEFA and FIFA. Projecting his vanity within the limits of virtue, he feels uncomfortable being treated as teacher or how mister. Do you prefer to be treated simply as Osorio or as doctor.

Design your education in your relationship with human beings. He is incapable of transferring responsibility and relegating the player to the background due to the hierarchy. Because of this education, those who know him well treat him as lord.

He is a music lover. On vacation, he can be found at a concert by colombian rubia, performed by her fellow countrywoman Shakira, at the Barranquilla Arena, or watching the opera Nabucco, by Vivaldi, in the Verona Arena

They will ask: what about the ball, what does the doctor, Do you understand ball? In his own way, he understands everything.

Although he understands that football should be practiced as an art, that is, occupying spaces with the ball under control, he has no qualms about being conservative. If the occasion demands it, do what any ordinary person would do.

It’s surprising. He is able to train a game model with a team, but at night, daydreaming, he concludes that the reality is different. He has no attachment to a definitive team, in which a starter is a starter, a reserve is a reserve. If intense rotation was previously opposed by old football concepts, today it has become necessary due to the tightness of the calendar which forces clubs to prioritize certain competitions. Remember a lot Paulo Cesar Carpegiani in the middle of his coaching career. More current, Paulo Autuori.

O doctor It is from the school of Fernando Pessoa, of which I am a member, which believes more in the written word as a cultural phenomenon than in the spoken word, a social phenomenon. The conduct of giving orders during the game through written notes is then explained. There is no news that a team that Osorio managed has no tactical order, defined objectives, or play variations.

The fans and press theorists need to self-evangelize. This time, Athletico didn’t bring just any coach. It is necessary to understand their theories and playing methods. Immediacy is for the weak who are incapable of anticipating the future.

And if time wasn’t important, there is another element, the fundamental one: Athletico needs to have a team. And to have him there is a lot missing: at least you need to have a midfielder, a midfielder and two quality attackers.