Today, the outstanding coach would have turned 84 years old. Many of the words of the Master have not lost their relevance even now.
On the birthday of the Maitre, Sport Arena invites you to recall the most memorable quotes of Valery Lobanovsky.
A coach must learn all his life. If you become stale and stop learning, it means that you have ceased to be a coach.
Movement is life, rest is death.
The coach must have his own vision of football. And he should look a little ahead.
The coach must select players according to his vision. It often happens that the coach is condemned that he gave the player to another club, and he performs well there. And the coach is asked the question: how is it, why did you give it away? Because he cannot implement the game model that is confessed in this team, he is not able to solve the tasks that are set in this team. If one player does not do this, there is no longer a team game, the model that the coach suggests.
It is especially important to know the character of the player. With one you need to talk softer, with the other – tougher. But for this you need to know the character. Because you can talk tough with a player and he will stop playing football altogether. You need to know the character traits – what to click on so that the player brings as much benefit as possible.
The head coach should be responsible, not the assistants. Assistants help, and the head coach gives tasks. They can express their point of view, recommend.
There can be no collective responsibility. Collective responsibility is irresponsibility.
The coach is a creative person. A creative person has the right to make mistakes.
Being a coach is much more difficult than being a player. On the field you only control the ball, but on the sideline you control people.
The coach cannot please the whole team. This is an axiom.
Copying tempting samples, catching up with someone is a hopeless occupation. Being ahead of the curve is the inspiring meaning of the work.
The formula for success in big-time football has also been known in principle for a long time: the most severe selection brings to the crest only those who have the ability for a colossal concentration of mental and physical strength at the time of the highest trials.
I have never distinguished defeat from victory. This is an ongoing process.
The ability to rationally use one’s physical and spiritual abilities comes only with the accumulation of experience, with maturity.
I am often called a dictator. I strongly disagree with this. A dictator is one who is ready to give orders without going into the arguments of the opponent. I always invite players to challenge my proposals.
Dostoevsky said that categorical judgments are characteristic of the ignorant. In particular, therefore, I try not to impose anything on anyone.
The program is not a guarantee of success, but it gives much more chances for it than spontaneous actions.
If a player doesn’t understand that the main thing in football now is to be able to play without the ball, and not with the ball, nothing can be done. These must be abandoned.
I don’t understand how you can love one tactic and dismiss another. Each tactic is good if it leads to the desired goal. And the goal is always the same – victory!
Football cannot develop without journalists. They can either slow down the process or move it forward.
People who do not go to football, who only read about what is happening, from my point of view, cannot talk about football at all. Theaters cannot be empty – for whom to play, why give all the best?
It is often said that this or that idea belongs to Lobanovsky, they say, Lobanovsky came up with it. And I never invented anything, I just studied and studied and studied.
Source: Sportarena
I’m Scott Moore, a professional writer and journalist based in the US. I’ve been writing for various publications for over 8 years now, and have been working as an author at athletistic for the past five years. My work has been featured by some of the leading sports websites and magazines across Europe.
