Every time it is more difficult to coach big teams (Yahoo)

Until a short time ago it was known that those who could resist were those who had broad backs, the coaches of big teams whose trajectories left no doubts, but lately we assist to such a speed of needing results and rendering that almost nobody is left from hard critics of fans, press and even directives themselves, and the door of exit of their Jojbs is nearer than ever.

The last days were full of examples of uneasiness the coaches are passing through, even those of big names, it is major than in other times, to such a point that many of them already opt to leave on their own decision, knowing that the system is too exigent. Others, in change, resist as long as they can.

Maybe the most unusual case was that of the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini, who is conducting the Real Madrid, and who already had to give explanations to his directives, more than once, specially to the sport directive of the club, the Argentine Jorge Valdano, and to the Football director, Miguel Pardeza, even when vs Sevilla, in the stadium Sánchez Pizjuán, he received the first defeat of the season after having marked an average of 3,5 goals by match..

It was of no importance that Pellegrini came out from an exceptional performance of many seasons in front of Villarreal, with which he climbed to nothing less but the Champions League in 2006 and if he did not reach the final of Paris vs the Barcelona of Rikjaard, it was due to the penalty that his best player,Juan Roman Riquelme, failed vs the German goalkeeper Jens Lehman of Arsenal. Once when he confronted with the talented Argentinean midfielder, the media did not doubt in agreeing with Pellegrini himself.

In change was sufficient the second defeat, this time harder and at home in the Stadium Santiago Bernabeu and vs Milan 2-3 for the present edition of the Champions and the black clouds were on the next future of the Chilean coach. “I know how the things are and if the press in these five years asked in any case to send a coach abroad, I am prepared for everything”, Pellegrini said in a very hard response, though some media already have baptized him as “Pelellegrini (“pelele” means “fool.”)

What to say then about Barcelona. Only one important defeat in months of competition with their principal team, though unexpected in the Camp Nou and vs the Russian of Rubin Kazan 1-2 for the Champions,. There were comments about “the end of cycle” with Josep Guardiola as coach, something incredible when we are referring to the present champion of the League, King’s Cup and Champions. A little less than two months to play the World Championship of Clubs in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arabian Emirates.
It is true that many of these declarations come for the Madrid media, always confronted with the Barcelona, media of which have also joked regarding those of the Spanish Metropolis that before the match with Milan said that the Italians were composing “a team of old people” that not only they defeated the Real Madrid but even could have arrived to the fourth goal if one head bow of Alessandro Nesta was not unusually annulled in the second half.

Another of the big of Spain is not going through a nice time, the Atletico Madrid that after the disaster in London for the Champions, when the Chelsea walked them and goaled 4-0 in Stanford Bridge, that practically eliminate them from the contest and only they have a chance to go down in Europe League, they decided not to use the services of their coach Abel Resinos, who was already questioned since a long time by the fans, press and even the directives. Actually, the president Enrique Cerezo said that the situation “cannot support any more”, and he was immediately fired and replaced, provisionally, by Santi Denta, though since the next appointment the conduction with be by Quique Sanchez Flores, ex of Valencia, Getafe and Benfica.

Another Spaniard has problems, though not in his league but in the English Premier, is Rafael Benitez, though it seems untrue, that after his first three seasons conducting the Liverpool arrived trice to the final of the Champions and won the first. It seems that it is not too much considered that the “red” of Anfield transferred Xabi Alonso, a vital piece in the mid of the field. Benitez, backed by part of the directive commission had to look for more support in his colleagues as the French Arsene Wenger of the Arsenal, but the truth is that the fans are not accustomed to such bad results, especially that of the defeat a home vs the French of Olympique of Lyon (1-2).

Not to speak about the mess in the Argentinean football, in which Ricardo Caruso Lombardi himself decided to abandon his job in Racing Club, one of the most traditional club and first World Champion of the country, due to the bad results, when he was considered the responsible of rising the last Season when the team was near to descend to Second division and ended above the last four positions, without needing to play a playoff.

The feeble results of the first eight appointment of the present Aperture Contest, without any victory, moved away the coach though the fans showed their sympathy and what is unusual is that the Argentinean team would be closing at present a contract with the German Lottar Matthaeus, of great footballistic trajectory but with not the same luck as coach.

With the difficulties within the Argentinean media and the short permanence of the coaches, the football environment of this country is asking what Matthaeus will do, he even do not speak Spanish, to subsist in a jungle as that one, in spite that he had already the opportunity to work in countries different of his own, as Brazil and Israel.

If this occurred in Racing, it is not difficult to understand the need of one of the greatest clubs of the Argentina, River Plate, where Nestor Gorosito also left, with very bad results, being replaced in less than mid of contest by ex player Leonardo Astrada, who arrives for the second time in five years to the substitutes bench, with the urgency to obtain some results, not only not to lose the train of the leaders but because River already began to have a low average putting them among the teams that have to fight as not to descend in the next season

Neither the press nor the fans had patience in Roma with Luciano Spaletti who in the last years placed the team on the summit and was always the protagonist of all the contests though he could not advance in Champions. He was substituted by the veteran Claudio Ranieri, who left Juventus though he performed a good campaign in his first season of return in the maximum category.

Nobody is safe in this football needed of good results. So as much, that the fashion reached South Africa, headquarter of the next World Championship. There, due to low results…in friendly matches the Brazilian coach Joel Santa had fallen, he arrived only a year and a half before to replace his countryman Carlos Alberto Parreira. Finally Parreira can return, but the South Africans are viewing the possibility for a third Brazilian, Luiz Felipe Scolari, world champion with his team in 2002. Scolari knows well where he is going, he made all possible to give Chelsea a good start in the last season, but a stumble put him in the street. “He does not speak English”, the Portuguese Jose Mourinho made fun of him, maybe without understanding that it will be enough that the Inter does not continue in Champions and he will frown.