Did my football coaching badges at school after loving @FootballManager, started coaching and realised I wasn't good at it, but was better with people & organisation. Started organising teams instead of coaching them - and our results improved substantially.
Ended up getting hired by a new start up soccer team in America out of uni before getting a big break in the Premier League, and here I am 12 years later running a consultancy company, helping some of the biggest clubs, confederations and leagues in the world better look after their athletes.
Ancelloti can’t take this squad any further. Surely, there are massive gaps in this aging Madrid squad and this downfall is not all on him but it’s time to reinvigorate a long-term project at the club and the man who leads that simply must not be him.
Throwback.
Journalist: "Is Guardiola a reference to you as a manager?"
Rúben Amorim: "My reference has always been José Mourinho."
THIS IS FOOTBALL HERITAGE, SON.
Flying with @AmericanAir couldn’t have been worse. Why is my luggage at an entirely different location and why hasn’t it moved since the last 5 days?All CReps say is we’ve sent a signal and you keep tracking the package and it’s standing there in Charlotte like Stonehenge.
Euro 2024 is the worst quality Euros or World Cup in my lifetime
All the big teams except Spain & Germany have been unwatchable
Where’s the superstars, attackers, dribblers, patterns of play?
Football has declined massively last 20 years
Players (robots) are fitter, that’s it