Thiago Silva is struggling to withdraw tears. Surrounded by your fluminense peers and staff, weapons connected around each other, the dressing room has a heavy silence.
Everyone’s eyes are fixed on their captain, Blue Armband pulled tightly around his left hand, as they are ready to go out and the 16 clubs face inter -matching in the World Cup round.
“In 2014, I was playing in the World Cup in Brazil,” He saysStanding with his lower lip, stood up, repeatedly wiping his nose and shed tears on his face. He stopped. “And during my days, I went home. My stepfather arrived, he is the man who has made me Thiago Silva today.”
He bends forward again, hand on the knees. “He was ill. I didn’t know how serious it was.” Silva rotates its tongue around its closed mouth, tries to catch the emotion back.
“I went back to the national team … it ended in that way. Reference to Brazil’s 7–1 semi-final disadvantage for Germany. He stops again, eyes shine.” He was hospitalized. I went to Paris, started my presiden again. Then, in one of the first league sports, my wife called me and said, “Godfather has died.”
He shakes his head, bites his lips, tries to hold it together. “Do you know what I mean, man?” He slaps his chest. “I did not go to see him in the hospital because I thought he was going to come out.”
He indicates his comrades, voice to rise. “What do I mean? Don’t return there, man. Now do, what can we do now, do it now.”
Pointing with your hands, his voice cracks with emotion, now almost shouting: “Don’t close it, because there is no time, man.”
He implicates them: “Enjoy the moment, enjoy it. With joy, but responsibly.” The level of his voice. Now focused, he slaps his hand to emphasize his point. “He said, we need to finish with 11 men. Do not take it wrong. Be fair for people, but F — ING compete with people. You have to compete with people. All is fine? All is well? God bless us, man. Come on!”
The dressing room explods.
After that, Floated went out at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte and reached the Club World Cup quarterfinal with a 2–0 win over Siri A winners. Silva’s speech was fuel by emotions and performed a historic performance from Brazil’s favor. (They will repeat the feat on Saturday, surprise Al Hilal 2–1 in the quarter-finals.) But one of the biggest withdrawal of football, 20 years ago, not by chest-tamping rally, but composed by, by measured instructions.
In the 2005 Champions League final, Liverpool lagged AC Milan 3–0. While despair filled the dressing room, manager Rafa Benitez did not give a quiet speech, just quiet, strategic clarity. They changed the formation, made a significant replacement and creating quiet belief. “We have 45 minutes to replace it,” he told the players.
That composition made a famous comeback from 3-3 and the victory over the punishment-there is evidence that the leadership is not always loud, but is clear, confident and strategic.
Football has changed, and culture has moved. Modern managers are searching for new ways to inspire players. For example, Arsenal’s Mikel Artetta has used Lightballbes and Stick-Figure Pictures of his personal trip from Spain to North London to galvanize players.
Although methods have developed and the artwork has become more avant-garden, the main principles are unchanged. The real magic is not in props or data, but the ability to attract the attention of the room reading and taking inspiration.
Before the era In XG and Set Peace Coaches, managers did not copy the words. Roy Kein recalled the simplicity of Brian Cloe’s instructions when he played under it Nottingham Forest in the 1990s. “In the dressing room before my debut, he said,” Can you control it? ” I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Can you pass it?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘you can run?’ ‘Yes.’ He said, “Just do those three things for me.” He was my career. ,
Simple, brief instructions have power. A 2002 study It was found that athletes with clear understanding of his roles performed better, while ambiguity caused a decline in confidence. The instructions remain a major component of effective team talks, but the data of data has made the game more strategic and analytical. Players are inspired not only by speeches, but also by solutions.
A search The International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching revealed how the Prematch team affects the talk content performance. The dialogue was classified as directed or emotional. The instructional talks gave strategic, strategic or technical guidance. Emotional people aims to provoke emotions, either calming the nerves or igniting the passion. For Arsenal And England Fullback Keran Gibbs, both styles worked, but lost its impact over time.
Gibbs, an analyst at ESPN, said, “In West Brome under the Tony Police, there was more about the talks and energy. In arsenal, they were more about unlocked teams. You needed both.”
“When Sam came to Alardice West Brom, it was about all numbers-the conn, touch, header. It was not how I grew up, but I used to give importance to it. Emotions used to work for me. I didn’t work for me. I used to run out of gas. I was not aggressive, I did not play with my brain. I needed information.”
And Arsen Vengar provided it. “He was calm, gathered and accurate. A word was not ruined,” Gibbs said.
“Before the matches, [Wenger] Gave us four or five bullet points, aggressive and defensively, and used data from previous games, so that we could do well. This gave us confidence, even in difficult times. ,
Research also shows That case of reference and nuances. The players wanted in more detail while facing unfamiliar opponents or teams, but they had recently lost, but before or when the underdogs played the role of the underdogs, they looked for speeches that raised their hair on their necks.
“It depended on the game and the team,” Gibbs said, who also played for Inter Miami. “In the West Brom, we were Dalits for a long time, so it was more about the effort and was trying to exclude another team, and the team required a lot of energy in the matter. In the arsenal, we dominated the capture, so the talks were more strategic, less feelings and more information needed.”
Former Gibbs teammates, Arsenal Manager Micel Artetta, has covered the club’s 2021-22 campaign, and has faced ridicule for some unconventional motivational methods shown in Amazon Prime’s “All or Nathing” documentary series. In a scene, he draws a heart and brain, telling the players that they should play with both – passion and intelligence. When fuses are done, they instigate the crowd, produce energy.
Drawing, combined with their message, combines success for success and execution. Gibbs, who is played with Arteta from 2011 to 2016, said, “The way he talks reminds me of a little Arsen. You can see that he has learned from him, but you get more fire than Michel,” Gibbs said, who played with Arteta from 2011 to 2016. He understands why the Spanish manager is trying bizarre methods to take advantage of a marginal profit. At the top, this may be the difference between winning and losing.
“At this stage, you can’t just shout. You need different ways to reach the players. Arteta does this well,” Gibbs said.
It is exactly that Benitez did with just 15 minutes to create confidence in a team below three goals in the intestines of the Ataturk Olympic Stadium. According to Benitez, it came down to language, trust and action.
“The third goal went inside when I was taking note on my knees,” he remembered. “I wanted my message to be clear, give the players trust and hope.
“Playing with anxiety leads to mistakes. My job was to remain calm, clearly think and give the right message. I did not waste time – I focused on solutions.”
This is the one that distinguishes great managers from good people: the ability to tap in the moment. Benittez knew what the team wanted, and they believed in the belief and reliability he made.
“The greatest defect in professional football is the inability to regulate their feelings, which prevents them from giving calm, clear messages in Haftime,” a former-Pr and a teacher said in the MindSet and Leadership Expert. “This is not about removing the feeling, but when and how to express it, choose it.”
Benittez’s Haftime address reflected major principles, which use the best teachers every day in classes across the country.
“Team talks must be educational: helping the players to improve, not just proving,” Sallis said. “Managers use emotions and reduce teaching. Do not overload players, keep it brief and highlight the major points using the language. Good communication, correct word, correct way, is necessary.
“Some players just need to tell: ‘Show them in, not out.” Many managers cannot understand that what is said and what is heard is not always the same, “Solis said, who works Jude Bellingham, Aborchi az And Jacob ramsay,
I use the song “Main ‘songs and singer’s analogy.” The song is ‘content’, ‘singer’ is delivery.
The best manager, like the best teachers, tunes in energy. It is no coincidence that Benitz connected a football career with a degree of physical education and teaching experience. Jose Morinho and Lewis Van Gal also started as teachers. Their background -shaped skills are important for coaching and for influential team talks.
They know when to give instructions, when to motivate and when to return. They customize their message to fit the moment and connect with a group of diverse personalities, each with their needs and learning styles.
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Thiago Silva later displayed this adaptability in the match against Inter Milan. Prior to the kickoff, this is all emotion, but during the breakdown of a water in the heat of the competition, 1–0 leading with flumine, a clip on social media showed Silva standing with employees and players, peacefully adjusted the strategy and replaced the midge of formation. Perhaps Brazil will one day create a great manager and in another life, he could make a great teacher, did he not become a world class defender.
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