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MANAGER PROFILE ; RALPH RAGNICK

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There is but one rule of thumb when it comes to coaching and it is that  great players don’t equal great managers. Of course outliers like Zizou and Pep abound with every  rule but the fact underrated is that the best and brightest of managers we’ve seen were very crappy players to say the least and the professor is no exception.   Ragnick had a short lived career which ended at age 25 after being released by ULM 1846. This began his coaching career as a player manager at Viktoria Backnang in 1983. Carl Jung popularly believed that the subconscious  is the key to our life pursuits  however for the professor the key to his footballing pursuits  in terms of style  is found in his observations of   Valery  Lobanovskyi and Arrigo  Sachi. Lobanovskyi  and Sachi are both impeccable winners which doesn’t give   much room for  criticism of styles, Why? Because their styles work. Lobanovskyi  won the Russian top flight eight times in sixteen years and also made Kyiv the first soviet side to