You're just jealous of our FREEDOM. ( picture a bald eagle majestically soaring over the word freedom. With one of your lame European birds (like a magpie or w/e) in its talons)
Hard not to be into footballers. Especially when they remove their shirts lol. They are the fittest athletes in the world. And before people get triggered and start telling me about all these super strong athletes etc etc I said fit. There is absolutely zero doubt about it.
there's nowhere colder than a soccer field in november! my brother used to play, i was much younger, i'd just pull into my winter jacket like a turtle and beg to go home.
Depends on the location. I live north of the ectic circle so I would say that a footballfieød in January is colder, but I probably wont be able to find the field at that time of the year.
Xabi Alonso just went the entire season losing 1 game (the Europa League final), winning the German League and German Cup.
He's probably has the best technique on his team. Certainly the most accomplished player.
There is an interview from Xhaka (one of his midfield players) where he is saying that they are trying really hard in training because Alonso is doing everything better than them and he is participating in the sparring games where he proceeds to dust his players with his skills.
I mean, Xabi is one of the best passers of the ball of all time. Here, recently, Kroos may have taken that title from him, but that doesn't change anything about Xabi.
It's just that what Kroos has done is simply unheard of.
Think there’s a few videos as well where he’s getting upset at the players for trying to ping a long ball like he just did. Instead instructs him to make a few short passes.
It’s a “do as I say, not as I do” but only because Alonso is too fucking good.
I know this is a joke but no. No they don't. They're mostly too busy staring at them and going "That's the dude from my poster when I was 5 telling me I did good..." (or more likely "YOU CALL THAT A PASS? YOU WERE OUT OF POSITION YOU PIECE OF SHIT! AND WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU DOING AT THE CLUB AT 3 LAST NIGHT?!")
Might just be a nomenclature thing though. In some sports (or just different countries) the person occupying the manager role is called the head coach. For example in MLS they'd be called head coaches.
Doesn’t always translate. Henry, Lampard, Rooney etc. were all brilliant players and ended up being shit managers. Wenger, Klopp, Mourinho, etc. were shit players but brilliant managers. There are only a few examples of world class players also being world class managers.
Klopp was a good player. Not world class by any means but he was a good player. The only people you could really call world class at both are probably Cruyff and Zidane.
Once you reach a t1 league, level of play isn't really a huge indicator of ability as a coach.
Position seems to be an impact. Forwards seem to make bad coaches. So do fullbacks and goalies.
CB, DM/CM seem to be the positions to look for. Positions that see the play happening
Not really, no. Loads of examples of excellent players being poor managers and the opposite.
Klopp, Mourinho, Wenger and Ferguson are widely considered to be 4 of the 5 best coaches in premier league history, none of them played to a high standard. Sacchi was arguably one of the most coaches of all time and never kicked a ball at any level. As someone else pointed out Henry/Vieira/Gerrard/Lampard/Xavi/Pirlo are some of the best players of their generation and their managerial careers ranged from mediocre to outright shit shows.
Basically a tonne of evidence that skill as a player has no correlation with being manager.
Ancelotti too, he was on Italy’s national team 26 times and played for Roma and Milan among other teams.
Edit: didn’t read the comment you were replying to in full, I now realize the “2 of them” referred to those who won a World Cup, thought you were just discussing which ones played at high levels
American football coaches used to also wear suits. Now they have to wear branded and sponsored clothes. Those brands don't make suits so now it's atheleisure.
>atheleisure
That’s the perfect word to describe the clothes I wear to the grocery store so people think I just left the gym but really I’m just depressed.
If you haven’t seen the skit, do yourself a favor and go watch the Monty Python football (soccer) skit. it’s Greece versus Germany except it’s famous historic scholars like Archimedes and Kant
Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non naturalistic ethics,
Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination,
And Marx is claiming it was offsides.
True. I could never explain why you would find an older man who has been at the very peak of human physical fitness for his entire life. Dressed in an absurdly expensive Italian suit while wielding immense power over large groups of peak-physical fitness men (with whom he regularly gets naked with in the shower). Someone whose job is based around having the charisma and presence to dominate a massive field of panting, sweating muscled men in front of tens of thousands of adoring fans hanging on his every word and action while also usually having an Italian, French or Spanish accent.
It will forever remain a mystery why this turns women on.
I don't think it has to do with athletics, per say. It's attractive to see anyone perform well at something they love.
But there is no reason I should be watching this and getting flustered. 😂😂 I went from impressed to wanting to be the ball and off the field..
Ted would just have something extremely positive to say about the talent of the managers and how he admires them all for being professionals who can rise to the level of also being great coaches.
It's fairly common for athletes to start packing weight when they stop training, as they keep the same diet but stop exercising. At least in high intensity sports like american football where they're already supposed to be big while training.
I'm sure thats the general excuse for it, anyway.
I usually see the stories about the opposite. NFL linemen who go from enormous mountains of men, and end up skinny because they aren't force feeding themselves to stay such a ridiculous size.
In one of Zidane's first training sessions at Madrid, the players were unable to score from free kicks. Zidane took the ball and told them ‘this is the way to do it’ and put it into the top corner.
I have videos set to auto sound-off in the reddit options and find I very rarely unmute a video now because so many of them have subtitles too.
If 51% of the time the music or narration wasn’t awful on the videos I’d probably switch it to play audio, but that’s not happening lol.
I also hate the TikTok AI narration that is on like half the videos now so maybe when AI narration is more natural it will be better.
I almost think that sort of annoying AI sounding narration is part of TikTok’s style at this point though, and they could use better voices because the technology has advanced in the past couple of years, but they choose not too which is funny and annoying lol.
Every coach at the top level will have played at the top level, so they all have the skills.
However to be a great coach it actually favours those who weren't the best players. I think guys who are the top players in the world aren't really big picture, all about the team guys.
Mourinho, Wenger, Arrigo Sacchi, Julian Nagelsmann (kinda), Avram Grant, Andre Vilas-Boas, Brendan Rogers (again kinda), Maurizio Sarri. All elite level managers. Not one of them played at the top level, bar the two who played elite youth level but got injured and retired/played lower league football.
I'm pretty sure Grant and Vilas-Boas never even played football at all at any level. Vilas-boas was just a teenager living in the same block as a great manager and got talking to him, and made his connections and money (he's literally aristocracy in Portugal) work for him and he got to the highest levels of management in the game.
So wait, what happens when the coach/manager interacts with the ball? Because in at least one or two of these, it looks like it was still "technically" in play when they did.
Yeah if it crosses the white line it’s out of play, doesn’t have to bounce. The dotted line denotes each teams’ technical area I.e. the place where the coaches can walk around whilst not walking across the other team.
I should stress to the non-football fans who have come across this, most of the coaches you are seeing here are not only former players but some of the best to have played the game. You have in this clip the likes of Seedorf, Luis Enrique, Deschamps, Xabi Alonso, Ancelloti who were all great players playing for some of the best clubs in Europe and for their national teams.
Imagine an NBA head coach snagging a ball as it’s coming out of bounds towards him and start dribbling like those early 2000s Nike commercials, to then pass the rock behind his back to the player waiting to inbound the ball.
people who don’t play soccer need to understand how hard it is to do what those coaches are doing and how impressively easy they are making it look. Obviously professional players are doing this all the time during practice, games,what not. Still never fails to blow my mind with how easy they make it look.
I like how their hands are always in their pockets and so cool about it
As someone who has never been into footballers...it's pretty sexy ngl
I'm a romance reader and I was thinking that I might need to pick up some books about soccer coaches after seeing this!
Have you read Pucking Around? It's a hockey romance, and there's videos of hockey players looking absolutely aghast while reading the spicy bits
I’m trying to look for these videos but can’t find them! Pls share the wealth, I beg you
As a former hockey player ... I'm lowkey scared
I mean if it makes them blush WTF is even in there?
I’m 10% into that book and I’m currently addicted. …I hate you for that.
First lesson- they’re football coaches. 😂
guess it depends on what kinda smut ur reading
You're just jealous of our FREEDOM. ( picture a bald eagle majestically soaring over the word freedom. With one of your lame European birds (like a magpie or w/e) in its talons)
Cracked me up. Thanks 🤣
All of the people in the video are actually managers
They are the American equivalent of coach. When Americans read 'coach', they don't think the physio coach or the goalie coach but the manager.
Kulti by Mariana zapata ywc
Came here to say this. +1
Ok. So it was not only me. It is a thing. Men in suits nonchalantly playing ball are hot.
Mmm yeah new fetish unlocked
Petition to make suits the uniform requirement in football
Hard not to be into footballers. Especially when they remove their shirts lol. They are the fittest athletes in the world. And before people get triggered and start telling me about all these super strong athletes etc etc I said fit. There is absolutely zero doubt about it.
Yeah I definitely felt aomething
It's the suit. Anyone looking competent in a suit is 🥵
I KNOW RIGHT?! I thought I was weird for thinking it was sexy as hell
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Guys I think Im ok with machines taking over they cool af
The most iconic coaches of my local club once said: "You don't play football with your hands." When one of the players had a broken arm.
They should put all their players in handcuffs and see how well they run
True, but you don't see them Naruto run either.
Now get out there and guard that goal
They remind me of Sanji with the suits on lol
Damn they really were lol
It's foutboul, not haundboul.
there's nowhere colder than a soccer field in november! my brother used to play, i was much younger, i'd just pull into my winter jacket like a turtle and beg to go home.
Depends on the location. I live north of the ectic circle so I would say that a footballfieød in January is colder, but I probably wont be able to find the field at that time of the year.
Imagine a match where everyone wears a tux and acts all gentleman-like...
We once did duels this way
We once did sex this way
I once did your Mom this way
I once watched
Have you had hands on your pockets as well?
He did. Very posh.
Fucking reddit
Uhmmmm akchtuallyy, he was talking about fucking the other guys mom..🤓☝🏼
*☝🏼🤓
Why are you fucking Reddit
I once
I, too, choose this guys mom.
I am arriving!!!
The Liga of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Very good!
What’s Liga?
Liga ma balls lmao
Got'em. But not before your obligatory two laps and some stretching. Now go.
Isn't that just cricket?
Rugby is the hooligan sport for gentlemen, while football is the gentleman sport for hooligans.
And neither of these is cricket, so how is this relevant to the comment you're replying to...
Imagining someone faking an injury after being tripped in a tux is a hilarious image
Gentlemen play football?
>Gentlemen play football? Yeah, that's where the word "club" comes from. England, y'know
South Park did it.
It's almost like the players are watching their dad throw the ball back, the way they get excited. So cute
These guys are just waiting for one of the players to say, "If it's so easy, why don't you come over here and show us?!"
Xabi Alonso just went the entire season losing 1 game (the Europa League final), winning the German League and German Cup. He's probably has the best technique on his team. Certainly the most accomplished player.
Ancelotti has to be up there as a player. Won two champions league with AC Milan as player.
Sure but Ancelotti is what, 65? Xabi is 42 years old, so it's a bit more believable and certainly he can still train with the boys
Never underestimate the 🤨
You rang?
have you seen Fernando Torres training with Liverpool? he looks like he could play nowadays
There is an interview from Xhaka (one of his midfield players) where he is saying that they are trying really hard in training because Alonso is doing everything better than them and he is participating in the sparring games where he proceeds to dust his players with his skills.
I mean, Xabi is one of the best passers of the ball of all time. Here, recently, Kroos may have taken that title from him, but that doesn't change anything about Xabi. It's just that what Kroos has done is simply unheard of.
Think there’s a few videos as well where he’s getting upset at the players for trying to ping a long ball like he just did. Instead instructs him to make a few short passes. It’s a “do as I say, not as I do” but only because Alonso is too fucking good.
They wouldn't, because the coach would just answer "I show you every damn day and you still suck"
I know this is a joke but no. No they don't. They're mostly too busy staring at them and going "That's the dude from my poster when I was 5 telling me I did good..." (or more likely "YOU CALL THAT A PASS? YOU WERE OUT OF POSITION YOU PIECE OF SHIT! AND WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU DOING AT THE CLUB AT 3 LAST NIGHT?!")
... "and I did that wearing my church shoes... take a lap."
A lot of them are former professional football players.
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Lol yes this video shows why they were players, not coaches
Also, most of them are managers. They do minimal coaching. There are lots of actual coaches for specific roles in football clubs
Lot of speed. On the outside.
Lotta speed.
Might just be a nomenclature thing though. In some sports (or just different countries) the person occupying the manager role is called the head coach. For example in MLS they'd be called head coaches.
It shows why they're coaches... because being an excellent player is a huge plus when coaching soccer
Doesn’t always translate. Henry, Lampard, Rooney etc. were all brilliant players and ended up being shit managers. Wenger, Klopp, Mourinho, etc. were shit players but brilliant managers. There are only a few examples of world class players also being world class managers.
Klopp was a good player. Not world class by any means but he was a good player. The only people you could really call world class at both are probably Cruyff and Zidane.
No disrespect, but that’s not true
Once you reach a t1 league, level of play isn't really a huge indicator of ability as a coach. Position seems to be an impact. Forwards seem to make bad coaches. So do fullbacks and goalies. CB, DM/CM seem to be the positions to look for. Positions that see the play happening
This is total nonsense FYI
Being an excellent player might help you get management jobs, but it doesn't help with actually being good at them.
Not really, no. Loads of examples of excellent players being poor managers and the opposite. Klopp, Mourinho, Wenger and Ferguson are widely considered to be 4 of the 5 best coaches in premier league history, none of them played to a high standard. Sacchi was arguably one of the most coaches of all time and never kicked a ball at any level. As someone else pointed out Henry/Vieira/Gerrard/Lampard/Xavi/Pirlo are some of the best players of their generation and their managerial careers ranged from mediocre to outright shit shows. Basically a tonne of evidence that skill as a player has no correlation with being manager.
Yeahh not only that but some even played at the highest level since at least 2 of these coaches won the world cup as players if I'm not mistaken
Two of them, Xabi Alonso and Didier Deschamps.
Ancelotti too, he was on Italy’s national team 26 times and played for Roma and Milan among other teams. Edit: didn’t read the comment you were replying to in full, I now realize the “2 of them” referred to those who won a World Cup, thought you were just discussing which ones played at high levels
Then sauron the deceiver gave to them nine rings of power.
The fact that they wear suits makes this video look like a Monty Python skit.
American football coaches used to also wear suits. Now they have to wear branded and sponsored clothes. Those brands don't make suits so now it's atheleisure.
>atheleisure That’s the perfect word to describe the clothes I wear to the grocery store so people think I just left the gym but really I’m just depressed.
At least the Made in Italy Nikes then
If you haven’t seen the skit, do yourself a favor and go watch the Monty Python football (soccer) skit. it’s Greece versus Germany except it’s famous historic scholars like Archimedes and Kant
Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, And Marx is claiming it was offsides.
Beckenbauer in the team was great. I don’t understand how he didn’t score a goal
I... I find this attractive?
As everyone should. Its just plain hot, in a weird unexplainable way.
It's the confidence, knowing what you are doing without being arrogant about it.
And being outside the game..the overseer taking care of others who play.
The apparent nonchalance with how they keep their hands in their pockets.
whilst also being well dressed and in charge
True. I could never explain why you would find an older man who has been at the very peak of human physical fitness for his entire life. Dressed in an absurdly expensive Italian suit while wielding immense power over large groups of peak-physical fitness men (with whom he regularly gets naked with in the shower). Someone whose job is based around having the charisma and presence to dominate a massive field of panting, sweating muscled men in front of tens of thousands of adoring fans hanging on his every word and action while also usually having an Italian, French or Spanish accent. It will forever remain a mystery why this turns women on.
You had a weird coach if he went naked to the showers with you..
A man demonstrating he is in control of an otherwise chaotic situation.
if only we could keepy-uppy our relationships...
Effortlessly and casually displaying high levels of skill is indeed very attractive.
Especially when wearing a suit
Competency while well dressed. Who wouldn't find this attractive?
Comforted, bc I was hesitant to admit the same thing..
What WHY lol? Athletic men is one of the most normal attractions.
I don't think it has to do with athletics, per say. It's attractive to see anyone perform well at something they love. But there is no reason I should be watching this and getting flustered. 😂😂 I went from impressed to wanting to be the ball and off the field..
Oh my. You want to land right on his foot from 20 feet up. That is a bit more wild.
I'm just trying to see how he handles me. 😂😂
Now short guys gotta compete with Coaches.
It must be a mix of how confident they are, they way they're dressed, and how elegant the move itself is.
Very satisfying
That’s actually pretty dope.
Why do American football coaches look like couches?
I don't even understand what the first guy did
You drop your foot as the ball touches it and then rapidly decelerate the ball. It's more intuitive than it looks but the execution here is great.
It's super satisfying when done right.
Like catching an egg so you don't break it.
I like this one!
Must have super glue on the top of his shoe just in case.
And yet I found that so attractive like what???
And doing it in dress shoes too.
Ted Lasso is real quiet.
When has Ted ever been quiet
Touché
Ted would just have something extremely positive to say about the talent of the managers and how he admires them all for being professionals who can rise to the level of also being great coaches.
When Rebecca is ready to talk to him about leaving Richmond.
Man, if I was a coach I'd be practicing my trapping and keepie-uppie just in case.
You should see boxing coaches with guys that talk too much.
Old boxing coaches give the vibe "I don't have the stamina to last a round, but my punches as just as heavy as I was in my prime"
Love a man who can control his balls
I got news for you ... This is NOT why they're coaches.
Wanted to write this and just checked if someone else did already. Way too far down! Has nothing to do with coaching.
Quick, someone post a pic of a 150kg American football coach that looks more like a competitive eater than someone involved on sports:)
It's fairly common for athletes to start packing weight when they stop training, as they keep the same diet but stop exercising. At least in high intensity sports like american football where they're already supposed to be big while training. I'm sure thats the general excuse for it, anyway.
I usually see the stories about the opposite. NFL linemen who go from enormous mountains of men, and end up skinny because they aren't force feeding themselves to stay such a ridiculous size.
Daniel Flarke broke my brain.
His name is actually Farke lol.
😬
He broke my heart on Sunday
Xabi so chill while making that perfect control lol
In one of Zidane's first training sessions at Madrid, the players were unable to score from free kicks. Zidane took the ball and told them ‘this is the way to do it’ and put it into the top corner.
Fuck your background music!
Turned sound to hear cheers bur instead got annoying sounds.
I have videos set to auto sound-off in the reddit options and find I very rarely unmute a video now because so many of them have subtitles too. If 51% of the time the music or narration wasn’t awful on the videos I’d probably switch it to play audio, but that’s not happening lol. I also hate the TikTok AI narration that is on like half the videos now so maybe when AI narration is more natural it will be better. I almost think that sort of annoying AI sounding narration is part of TikTok’s style at this point though, and they could use better voices because the technology has advanced in the past couple of years, but they choose not too which is funny and annoying lol.
Second or third time Ive seen you, get'em background music..😂🤣
Caught you twice now!
Every coach at the top level will have played at the top level, so they all have the skills. However to be a great coach it actually favours those who weren't the best players. I think guys who are the top players in the world aren't really big picture, all about the team guys.
Mourinho, Wenger, Arrigo Sacchi, Julian Nagelsmann (kinda), Avram Grant, Andre Vilas-Boas, Brendan Rogers (again kinda), Maurizio Sarri. All elite level managers. Not one of them played at the top level, bar the two who played elite youth level but got injured and retired/played lower league football. I'm pretty sure Grant and Vilas-Boas never even played football at all at any level. Vilas-boas was just a teenager living in the same block as a great manager and got talking to him, and made his connections and money (he's literally aristocracy in Portugal) work for him and he got to the highest levels of management in the game.
And they can ALL see their own toes. Check how many American sports coaches can claim that.
Why does this otherwise pretty cool video need this terrible music attached to it?
This is the official music of the 2010 World Cup. For once, the music kinda fit thematically.
Wow. Looks cool 😎
/r/fuckyourbackgroundmusic
You know what isn't satisfying as fuck? Choppy edits right as the foot makes contact.
That’s hot
Soccer coaches might be the best dress in sports
I love the crowd cheering after Danial Farke's bit of skill.
I imagine them like Anime characters. Powerful enough to qlmost obliterate an entire team in a match.
That's not why they are coaches. This shows that they once were professional football players.
Who doesn't Beautiful to see, these things look simple but anyone that's been on a football pitch knows how hard this really is
There is … something about a guy in an expensive suit, casually playing football.
It's more coaches showing what they were before becoming coaches, but you do you.
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So wait, what happens when the coach/manager interacts with the ball? Because in at least one or two of these, it looks like it was still "technically" in play when they did.
The ball is out of play in them all
Ah ok. So like in 3, the first line is when it's out, not the dotted one after it? Just to clarify
Yes the straight line,not the dotted one..the dotted one mean for coaches/manager to stay inside the dotted line at all time during match
Yeah if it crosses the white line it’s out of play, doesn’t have to bounce. The dotted line denotes each teams’ technical area I.e. the place where the coaches can walk around whilst not walking across the other team.
must be nice being the coolest motherfucker on planet earth.
I should stress to the non-football fans who have come across this, most of the coaches you are seeing here are not only former players but some of the best to have played the game. You have in this clip the likes of Seedorf, Luis Enrique, Deschamps, Xabi Alonso, Ancelloti who were all great players playing for some of the best clubs in Europe and for their national teams.
Mains dans les poches le Dédé Héhe
I want to see Andy Reid catch a football
I don’t really know anything about football. Are coaches allowed to fuck with the ball like that out of bounds in an actual match?
Yeah, once the ball is out of bounds, it can be handled by players and coaches.
Those first touches though.
Meanwhile, baseball managers...
Imagine an NBA head coach snagging a ball as it’s coming out of bounds towards him and start dribbling like those early 2000s Nike commercials, to then pass the rock behind his back to the player waiting to inbound the ball.
Very nice Now let's see american football coaches
And in a suit ….🥵
They play very calmly, that's where we realize that we don't have to get excited to get things done well.
I want to watch only coaches face eachother
people who don’t play soccer need to understand how hard it is to do what those coaches are doing and how impressively easy they are making it look. Obviously professional players are doing this all the time during practice, games,what not. Still never fails to blow my mind with how easy they make it look.
"I used to be a soccer player like you, until old age forced me into coaching"