Ricardo Gomes : “Quand je suis revenu en France à Bordeaux, j’ai pris une équipe qui n’avait pas la confiance, qui avait des doutes dans tous les secteurs”
On podcastinin the show ” 4-4-2 My love“, Ricardo was the guest of the day. The former coach of Girondins of Bordeaux spoke about the meaning of the word “tactical” in football.
“Tactics are one of the most important things. We are going to play together with a strategy, tactics are the most important for me because we work as a group. It is not an individual sport, you have to put in place an eleven and then sometimes 15 players in a match. I think a coach thinks about that 24 hours a day. »
It has often been said of him that he was a defensive coach and he explains it:
” No I do not agree. I left from Paris in 1998 and when I returned to France in Bordeaux, I took on a team that lacked confidence, that had doubts in all areas. In this case, the best thing is to start defending well to regain confidence. This was the essential idea then on one had good results. The tactics must convince the players, it is very important to convince the players. I think I managed to convince the players in a sure way because they didn’t have the confidence. We qualified the team after a very difficult year 2004/2005 and in 2005/2006 we qualified for the Champions League. After on a finished by a Ligue’s cup with practically the same players, the same squad. It’s true that it was a stable club at the time with a good President, that helped us a lot. »
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