MANAGER PROFILE ; RALPH RAGNICK
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 fligh...