00:03even the greatest players need direction and on football's greatest stage the director becomes
00:09even more important while success might have seemed a given with the players at his disposal
00:16Spain's 2010 World Cup winning coach Vicente del 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
00:31kindly uncle mediating the rivalry and massaging the egos of the Barcelona and Real Madrid megastars
00:37in his team despite his links to real stars like Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos he was also able to
00:49get the best out of Barca's Gerard Piquet Xavi and Andres Iniesta Del Bosque also showed an appetite for
00:59tactics and tic-tacs part of Del Bosque's magic was honing Spain's tiki-taka style while his
01:08predecessor Luis Aragones was the chief architect of tiki-taka within the Spanish setup Del Bosque
01:15will go down as the man who perfected it he was fated for great things from the outset
01:20orchestrating a flawless World Cup qualifying campaign and becoming the first manager of any
01:26national team to claim 10 straight victories from debut Del Bosque steered Spain for 114 games as
01:34manager over eight years amassing 87 victories including the 2012 European Championship off the
01:42back of Spain's first World Cup victory in 2010 King Juan Carlos thought so highly of the performance
01:50he canonized him as the first Marques of Del Bosque La Roja was seemingly cemented at the top of world
01:58football but what followed was a major turnover of key players the tiki-taka approach that had so
02:04baffled the world became unstitched in the year following the European Championship title defense and Spain
02:11were eliminated in the group stage of the 2014 World Cup and the round of 16 at Euro 2016 del
02:19Bosque
02:20announced his retirement and the tributes were long and generous his legacy untarnished having managed
02:29Real Madrid at the turn of the century he's held aloft as the first manager in history to win the
02:34Champions League the European Championship and the World Cup ensuring the first Marques of Del Bosque goes
02:41down as a master director on football's greatest stage
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