Though shocking the sacking yet it was expected not now but 6 months back the sacking of David Moyes the team manager of Manchester United when he failed to deliver the goods. To step into the shoes of gigantic and brainy Alex Ferguson and attain success and that too in such a short time is not a joke. For a manager to attain success lot of factors are required and not the game only that is played on the field. It is always the manager that is made scapegoat for the defeat of the team when he is not physically playing the game on the field. He is only guiding the players how to play but the final action is in the hands of the players who are, if not more, then at least equally guilty of receiving defeats on the field. In view of this, along with the manager if not all then at least some players who play crucial role in the team should be sacked. If 11 playing members of the team cannot win the game then how one non playing member that is the manager can do the needful from outside the field?
A few years back, one prominent soccer club in Denmak replaced half a dozen managers within a dozen months when their team suffered spate of defeats, one after the other. In the Gulf they don’t keep the managers longer period if they fail to acquire the victories, they sack them by paying them their full financial settlement in accordance with the contractual obligation.
The team manager’s job is the most demanding job because every team wants victory and no team accepts defeat. Tele Santana the great manager of the great Brazil dream team of 1982 World Cup repented later on to accept this position because in Brazil’s defeat in this tournament made him realize how risky it is to be the team manager when your team suffers the loss. His woes became worse because in Brazil people are very emotional when soccer is concerned and for them a defeat for their team means an end to their dream. For this reason he later on remarked saying “nobody should accept the team manager's post in Brazil”. In Brazil, the team manager’s job of the national team is second to the post of the president of Brazil in terms of popularity and importance.
Tele Santana was such a genius manager that only the second time in the history of the soccer world that such a team was prepared and appeared on the soccer field. Some of the players of this team were not only soccer wizards but soccer magicians, namely Falcao, Zico, Eder, Dr. Socrates and Serginho. This team had everything in it required to win the World Cup except “LUCK”which is very imperative to win the Cup. Poor thing Tele Santana was unlucky not to have this factor called Luck.
Manchester United is one of the richest clubs in the world and it has a long history of playing excellent soccer by their excellent footballers of very high caliber recruited from all around the globe. It has its innumerable fans all around the world who cannot accept the defeat. The top management of this club spends millions with the expectation of victories not only at local level but also at national and international level. David Moyes as Manager has failed to gain the club the expected victories and hence the sacking which he accepted gracefully.
I wish David Moyes all the best in his next assignment but caution him to screen carefully the caliber of the players of the next team because it is the quality of the players that makes the success of the manager. Mario Zagallo was given the charge of the great Brazilian squad of 1970 World Cup when Brazil won the coveted Jules Rimet World Cup for the third time, just 6 months before the start of the tournament in Mexico and he became successful only because he had in his squad not only good players but super footballers such as rocky defender and skipper Carlos Alberto, attacking midfielder Rivelino, midfield maestro Clodoaldo who did super orchestrating with the ball and all the attacking genius forwards, namely the great Pele, Jairzinho, Tostao and Gerson. Such forwards and such a team never appeared on the soccer field till now. And probably even in future will not. Such teams come to this planet only once in centuries.
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