00:04Even the greatest players need direction, and on football's greatest stage, the director becomes even more important.
00:13While success might have seemed a given with the players at his disposal, Spain's 2010 World Cup winning coach Vicente
00:21del Bosque was a master in man management.
00:25A tough defensive midfielder for 16 seasons with Real Madrid, he took on more the appearance of a kindly uncle,
00:33mediating the rivalry and massaging the egos of the Barcelona and Real Madrid megastars in his team.
00:43Despite his links to Real stars like Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos, he was also able to get the best
00:49out of Barca's Gerard Piquet, Xavi and Andres Iniesta.
00:57Del Bosque also showed an appetite for tactics and tic-tacs.
01:03Part of Del Bosque's magic was honing Spain's tic-tacca style.
01:07While his predecessor, Luis Aragones, was the chief architect of tic-tacca within the Spanish setup, Del Bosque will go
01:15down as the man who perfected it.
01:18He was fated for great things from the outset, orchestrating a flawless World Cup qualifying campaign and becoming the first
01:25manager of any national team to claim ten straight victories from debut.
01:31Del Bosque steered Spain for 114 games as manager over eight years, amassing 87 victories, including the 2012 European Championship
01:41off the back of Spain's first World Cup victory in 2010.
01:47King Juan Carlos thought so highly of the performance, he canonized him as the first Marques of Del Bosque.
01:55La Roja was seemingly cemented at the top of world football, but what followed was a major turnover of key
02:02players.
02:02The tic-tacca approach that had so baffled the world became unstitched in the year following the European Championship title
02:09defense, and Spain were eliminated in the group stage of the 2014 World Cup and the round of 16 at
02:16Euro 2016.
02:19Del Bosque announced his retirement, and the tributes were long and generous, his legacy untarnished.
02:28Having managed Real Madrid at the turn of the century, he's held aloft as the first manager in history to
02:34win the Champions League, the European Championship and the World Cup.
02:39Ensuring the first Marques of Del Bosque goes down as a master director on football's greatest stage.
02:45timing & verde
02:46Der Bosque
02:47Der Bosque
02:48Der Bosque
Comments