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Rashid Grand Master

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I have always liked him as a manager, not because he plays attacking football because he really doesn't. His teams always play on the fast counter attack and create chance after chance with penetrative football.

 

His teams always have great movement and can stretch teams really well... what impresses me though is that they can do it without hoofing, it is counter attacking football similiar to what the excellent Deportivo side played a number of years ago now.

 

Hiddink is a pragmatic manager (not defensive or attacking) but his teams play football how it should be played with freedom of expression along with defensive solidity.

 

Even if they go out he will have done wonders for a minor footballing nation again. Hiddink always gets teams playing greater than the sum of their parts.

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He & Capello are the best managers in the world IMO. There are many other great ones but none who have done so well in so different circumstances.

 

Capello has always had massive money to buy players, Hiddink hasn't. That marks Hiddink out as an amazing coach of players. The style of football is breathtaking even if it isn't ala Brazil.

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Dink is a funny one when you think about it. He keeps managing to make these underdog nations exceed all expectations, and not just by little margins either. He's making these teams play good football, beat fancied teams with great squads and taking them to latter stages of competitions. Everytime he does I keep thinking to myself what a lucky bastard he must be but he's doing it regularly so there has to be more to it than that.

 

Conversely, he's never really won anything and I've no recollection of him ever being given a big job although he often gets linked with them. Maybe he's afraid to, I dunno. It is a quandry though.

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He was Real Madrid manager for a little bit but he was sacked.

Ah right, how long ago was that. He's clearly got something about him but I dunno what he has missing that doesn't make him go for the big jobs and domestic level successes. Maybe he doesn't like working with big players and big attitudes or something.

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Ah right, how long ago was that. He's clearly got something about him but I dunno what he has missing that doesn't make him go for the big jobs and domestic level successes. Maybe he doesn't like working with big players and big attitudes or something.

 

It was 99, I think. He went to be Betis' manager after Madrid.

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As a "minor footballing nation", Russia have got to the finals of three European Championships before now. England have never got beyond the last four, and Spain have never got that far.

 

They have got to 4 and won 1 (the first one in 1960) if the USSR counts as Russia

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