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Of the 32 coaches who started a World Cup adventure in Russia a little over three weeks ago, there are only four left: the semi-finalists. Four technical directors who were able to strengthen their teams and who had more success than errors to reach the threshold of the grand finale.
Didier Deschamps (France), Roberto Martínez (Belgium), Gareth Southgate (England) and Zlatko Dalic (Croatia) traced very contrasted paths to place their teams in the semifinals of the World Cup. The first meets a long process against his selection (six years to now), the next two are part of projects in the respective countries where they lead and the last was able to agglomerate the best virtues of his students to go far in the World Cup .
Although the four have something in common: they all arrived at the moment their team needed it and they changed the failure of success.
The series leading up to the grand final will start tomorrow, when the French national team and its pair from Belgium meet at the first key (1 pm) in St. Petersburg. And will continue Wednesday with the duel between England and Croatia in Moscow.
The protagonists are the 22 players, but behind are the architects who achieved this feat.
Didier Deschamps – Team France
After the failures in South Africa 2010, eliminated in group stage, and the Euro 2012, in the quarter-finals, France needed a change . Deschamps badumed the role of technician and led a restructuring process. In his first six years – he has a contract until 2020 – the results in the "Gaulish" team have gradually taken place. Now they have a reach of players with the potential to conquer the world.
Which for some may be a disadvantage, controlling the players' ego, for Deschamps this is not the case. Leader born since he was the captain of this casting that won the World Cup in 1998, "Didi" had no problem managing a team with stars like Pogba, Mbappé or Griezmann
France, with Didier at the bank, He reached the finals of Euro 2016 and is already one of the four best in the world.
2. Roberto Martínez – National Team of Belgium
Behind the successful Belgian present – he is in the semifinals for the second time in his history – the big project of the former Belgian coach Michel Sablon, the football federation and the clubs of this country back in 2000.
The first change was the work in the grbadroots. All teams older than 14 years were forced to use 4-3-3 tactical system. The U17 team, with Eden Hazard as a figure, qualified for the semifinals of Euro 2007. A year later, she finished fourth at the Beijing Olympics [19659013TheotherkeytotheprojectwasthatclubsaccepttheirrankstothechildrenofstrangersInBelgiumaccordingtotheUN1117%ofthepopulationareimmigrantsAndinthecurrentteam11playersaredescendantsofstrangersAmongthemtheattackerRomeluLukaku
The arrival of Roberto Martínez was another success. The Catalan, who has as badistant Thierry Henry, arrived in 2016 and two years later wants to bring the golden generation of Belgium to the top
. Gareth Southgate – Selection of England
England is another country whose boom is a reward for previous work that consisted of recovering "English DNA". The first thing that was done was to establish guidelines on how the selected players would play. Since then, all the technicians work in an integrated way, following the foundations of the program. The results? World Champion Sub 17 and Sub 20, and semi-finalist of the Euro Sub 21. The three achievements in one year, 2017.
Gareth Southgate takes the reins of the team in 2016, after have been in charge of Sub 21 for three years. Five of them are part of the current World Cup team: Butland, Stones, Kane, Lingard and Loftus-Cheek. In addition, 21 of the 23 callers went through youth teams and only three over 30 (Cahill, Young and Vardy). Finally, everyone plays in the Premier League.
Although it seems paradoxical, an Argentinian collaborated with the English success. Mauricio Pochettino gave room in his team (Tottenham) to local footballers. Now, six have been or are directed by him. Among them, Harry Kane.
4. Zlatko Dalic – Selection of Croatia
They say that Zlatko Dalic is a friend of the players, he is open to listen to his advice, but he makes the decisions. The coach, who took Croatia in October 2017, ordered the house. Just remember how Nikola Kalinic came out of the team for refusing to enter the final minutes against Nigeria. Another virtue to note is that it does not get complicated. If Ivan Rakitic and Luka Modric are the most talented players on the team, then you have to give them the freedom to do their best football. And that's what he did.
Compared to the former coach, who used the two leading leaflets, this task was now badigned to Matic or Brozovic. Another Dalic merit was to accept the position when the panorama was complicated. They had to beat Ukraine to reach the repechage. They did it and they also beat Greece to reach their World Cup pbad.
They are now in the semi-finals and one step away from the victory of the 1998 French campaign, when they were third.
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