00:05even the greatest players need direction and on football's greatest stage the director becomes
00:11even more important while success might have seemed a given with the players at his disposal
00:18Spain's 2010 World Cup winning coach Vicente del Bosque was a master in man management a
00:26tough defensive midfielder for 16 seasons with Real Madrid he took on more the appearance of a
00:32kindly uncle mediating the rivalry and massaging the egos of the Barcelona and Real Madrid megastars
00:38in his team despite his links to real stars like Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos he was also able
00:50to get the best out of Barca's Gerard Piquet Xavi and Andres Iniesta del Bosque also showed an appetite
01:01for tactics and tic-tacs part of del Bosque's magic was honing Spain's tiki-taka style while his
01:09predecessor Luis Aragones was the chief architect of tiki-taka within the Spanish setup del Bosque
01:16will go down as the man who perfected it he was fated for great things from the outset orchestrating
01:23a flawless World Cup qualifying campaign and becoming the first manager of any national team
01:28to claim 10 straight victories from debut del Bosque steered Spain for 114 games as manager over eight
01:37years amassing 87 victories including the 2012 European Championship off the back of Spain's first
01:44World Cup victory in 2010 King Juan Carlos thought so highly of the performance he canonized him as
01:52the first markers of del Bosque La Roja was seemingly cemented at the top of world football but what
02:01followed was a major turnover of key players the tiki-taka approach that had so baffled the world
02:07became unstitched in the year following the European Championship title defense and Spain were eliminated in
02:13the group stage of the 2014 World Cup and the round of 16 at Euro 2016 del Bosque announced
02:21his retirement and the tributes were long and generous his legacy untarnished having managed Real Madrid at
02:31the turn of the century he's held aloft as the first manager in history to win the Champions League the
02:37European Championship and the European Championship and the World Cup ensuring the first markers of del Bosque goes
02:43down as a master director on football's greatest stage
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