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JOSÉ MORAIS
MANAGING HIGH LEVEL FOOTBALLERS
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JOSÉ MORAIS
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THE CLUB SHOULD RUN LIKE A FAMILY

In football, you can win more easily when the team is synchronized. When the
team works together. This applies to the footballers and to the whole club. The
club must be a family as a whole, not just the footballers.

If the coach is not prepared from a collective point of view, some footballer
will end up “losing” himself and the team will then lose itself. There will no
longer be synchronization of the collective mental state in relation to the goal.
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COACH AND COACHING STAFF

A good coach is half a team...

Nowadays I have an advantage: I think that I don’t know everything and that
the people around me also know something. Then I like to see them
participate in the process to create something that lasts and to create a
different (and we believe better) future.

I want my players to succeed so much that I know there must be a kind of

intensity in training for me to feel that we are fighting for the things we want.
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MANAGING HIGH LEVEL FOOTBALLERS

At the high level, footballers need to feel understood and cherished. Some play more and
others play less. Some train successfully, others have more difficulty, etc. And these things
must be managed by the coach. The coach must interact with the footballer. You must
convince him to do what is necessary for the good of the team and for his own good.

Managing all the differences (personality, mentality, etc.) has to do with knowing
ourselves. When we know ourselves, we spend less time getting to know the other. But
when we don’t know ourselves, it takes us longer to understand the other, because we
don’t know ourselves. This leads to more intemperate reactions and lack of emotional
control, because we haven’t yet developed the necessary skills to deal with the other
person, not just looking at him as a football player. It’s not just the tactical aspect. Many
times, the footballer can give us things far beyond what we are able to transmit in
technical terms as coaches.
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MANAGING HIGH LEVEL FOOTBALLERS

Footballers have extraordinary capabilities. They need direction, leadership, a fair and
selfless management; that is, focused on helping the person as a human being. This is
where the athlete reaches his potential. He will enter the pitch as a person, he will feel
respected, he will feel that he has good communication with the coaches. Thus, he will
perform at a much higher level.

This happens because he reaches a harmonious, free, joyful, open state. He has good
communication, he has the coach’s support in good and bad times. The coach should
praise the footballer’s abilities, analyzing the execution in the pitch and giving feedback
that makes the footballer satisfied with his performance. Then, he should direct him
towards what is possible to accomplish as an individual in a collective structure,
conveying insight to the footballer.

In this insight and understanding, the footballer respects his coach.

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GOOD ATMOSPHERE AND POSITIVE SPIRIT

I want to create a good environment and a positive state of mind

in my teams. This state of mind will allow the human being to
transcend, to reach different levels. Mentally we will be open to
new possibilities and thus have more joy. The body will follow
this mental state and “fly”. Football management is much more
than technical and tactical: it is emotional.
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HOW TO COMMUNICATE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO THE FOOTBALLERS?

1) Pass on the information with some visual support (graphics,

images, etc.).

2) Inform the objective of the activity and create an example in

the training. Then, allow the footballers to experience what we
want to see. We should always transmit positive reinforcement,
without ever limiting the footballers’ creativity.
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OBSERVATION OF THE FUTURE TEAM (BEFORE I AM HIRED)

I observe behaviors that allow me to discern the communication

relationships within the pitch and that allow me to deduce if there is
coordination in the various sectors of the team and if there is collective
fluidity. It is necessary to observe if there is collective thinking, if the
behaviors are isolated or if they are synchronized, while trying to
understand where I can optimize the process.
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OBSERVATION OF THE OPPONENTS

A good analyst is critical to a successful staff. It is important to

have an analyst with great ability and a broad view of situations.
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HOW DO YOU WORK THE DEFENSIVE PRINCIPLES

(CONTENTION, DEFENSIVE COVERAGE, BALANCE, CONCENTRATION, AND DEFENSIVE UNITY)?

There are times when I do simple exercises, like the 2v1 and 3v2 situations,
with higher or lower dynamics.

At other, I work these principles in narrow game situations.

Finally, at particular moments, the specificity of the information and the

intentionality leads the football player, in an open way, to continue working
those principles.
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HOW TO DEAL WITH BELIEFS AND SUPERSTITIONS IN FOOTBALL?

Human beings have beliefs since the dawn of humanity. The coach, as a
leader, must know how to manage beliefs (individual or collective). Managing
beliefs can give us positive things. If we don’t manage beliefs, we can reap
negative things (for example, there are footballers who believe that
something will happen because we don’t do a certain thing). We must
transform limiting beliefs, which prevent the team from functioning by being
mentally blocked in the face of certain issues that can prevent us from
achieving our goals.
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INFLUENCE FOOTBALLERS

A fundamental trait to influence footballers: communication skills

(several aspects that we have to master).
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CHAMPIONS MENTALITY

Basically, champions have a different way of seeing things, they

have different states of confidence. Self-confidence has to do
with the joy that we feel inside.
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IMPOSITION OF LIMITS

There is the positive way of making the followers feel limits. There is the
positive way of leadership: making the other feel wanted, recognized and
valued, rather than suppressing his ability. We all have talents and abilities.

We need leaders who say: “you can do it, today was good, tomorrow will be
even better”.
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RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOTBALLERS

The relationship with footballers is deeply human. It is a relationship of

trust, responsibility, and intimacy. When you build a relationship like
this, things flow differently. There is never too much trust: either there
is trust or there isn’t. You must be assertive. You have to say what needs
to be said so that the person hears and understands what you say.
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FLEXIBILITY IN THE RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOTBALLERS

Looking at the other and understanding what they have to say, what they are
feeling and seeing when we are communicating an idea (in this duality, where
there is an exchange of information, we must be flexible to not think that what
we are saying is the only right choice). This openness allows us to reach the
state where we can help our athlete (who sometimes has totally different
references from ours, but it also allows us to enter a positive state that will
make us feel happier in our activity and transmit happiness to others who
work with us).
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FLEXIBILITY IN THE APPROACH TO THE GAME

Flexibility is related to understanding the other. Just as we are flexible in
understanding the other, we must also be flexible to understand that the
course of the game poses different problems. The situation may change at
each moment of the game.

The coach must be flexible in understanding what is happening and realize

the need for changes to achieve the intended goals. During the game, there
are dynamics that work according to the quality of the footballers and their
emotional state, which can change the effectiveness of the actions of the
game. We must be aware and have the ability not only to help the footballer,
but also the team, so that it can have the necessary organization to make it
easier for the group to reach the final goal: to succeed and win.
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JOSÉ MORAIS’ SELF-PORTRAIT

A successful, cheerful coach, a friend of football and all

those who like and love this sport (spectators,
footballers and other coaches). Basically, someone you
can count on!
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REFERENCES
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