00:00Even the greatest players need direction, and on football's greatest stage, the director becomes even more important.
00:09While success might have seemed a given with the players at his disposal, Spain's 2010 World Cup winning coach Vicente
00:17del Bosque was a master in man management.
00:22A tough defensive midfielder for 16 seasons with Real Madrid, he took on more the appearance of a kindly uncle,
00:29mediating the rivalry and massaging the egos of the Barcelona and Real Madrid megastars in his team.
00:39Despite his links to Real stars like Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos, he was also able to get the best
00:46out of Barca's Gerard Piquet, Xavi and Andres Iniesta.
00:53Del Bosque also showed an appetite for tactics and tic-tacs.
00:59Part of Del Bosque's magic was honing Spain's tiki-taka style.
01:04While his predecessor, Luis Aragones, was the chief architect of tiki-taka within the Spanish setup, Del Bosque will go
01:12down as the man who perfected it.
01:14He was feted for great things from the outset, orchestrating a flawless World Cup qualifying campaign and becoming the first
01:22manager of any national team to claim 10 straight victories from debut.
01:27Del Bosque steered Spain for 114 games as manager over eight years, amassing 87 victories, including the 2012 European Championship
01:38off the back of Spain's first World Cup victory in 2010.
01:43King Juan Carlos thought so highly of the performance, he canonized him as the first Marques of Del Bosque.
01:52La Roja was seemingly cemented at the top of world football, but what followed was a major turnover of key
01:58players.
01:59The tiki-taka approach that had so baffled the world became unstitched in the year following the European Championship title
02:06defense,
02:06and Spain were eliminated in the group stage of the 2014 World Cup and the round of 16 at Euro
02:132016.
02:15Del Bosque announced his retirement, and the tributes were long and generous, his legacy untarnished.
02:25Having managed Real Madrid at the turn of the century, he's held aloft as the first manager in history to
02:30win the Champions League, the European Championship and the World Cup.
02:36Ensuring the first Marques of Del Bosque goes down as a master director on football's greatest stage.
02:42The last Marques of Del Bosque was a theatre that was initiated by the world of the first marqu vidéos.
02:42The first Marques of Del Bosque is a member of it in an independent world and a non-archive empire.
02:42The primary Marques were a member of the first Marques of Del Bosque with one of the most influential names
02:42that was in this position,
02:42The same year of the SYMO who was developed as a leader and the former Marques of Del Bosque
Comments