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Posted: July 6, 2018 1:33:06
Tabarez, 71, needs a crutch to walk these days, but l & # 39; 39; El Maestro's enthusiasm for coaching remains intact. (Photo Reuters)
Former Argentine striker Gabriel Batistuta released a grainy photo: The footballer is in a fit of rage, but he is restrained from what looks like a man's fight to the Scholarly pace. his face. The caption says, "Thank you for saving my life and my career, Maestro."
The Maestro, or El Maestro as he is most famous, is Oscar Tabarez, and the picture was shot during a raging match of the Copa Libertaredos Chile, in 1991, between the local club Colo -Colo and Boca Juniors, the Argentine club Tabarez was coach. The first stage, narrowly won by Boca (1-0), was in a bad mood. So, of course, the mood in Santiago was vindictive, and the resurgence began when the guard, after complaining several times that the flash of the photographers was bothering him, threw a football into the cord.
As they needed an instigation, the crowd broke in and attacked several players, including Batistuta, who later remembered the incident in a TV interview: "He (Tabarez) was not afraid that they would break his face." He was with us in the middle, shouting at us not to fight back and drag us to the locker room. think, trying to save us, he even threw some punches on some of them, and when he got on the bus, his white shirt had blood stains, maybe the mine
Although he can not revive Boca Juniors and his spell has ended in three years, he has trained several careers, including those of Batistuta. The prolific languishing striker as a retired winger.But the intuitive mind of Tabarez whispered to him that he had the prerequisites of a forward, instinct and sense of position only the unscheduled speed required of a winger. He installed it in the center of the front line, and Batistuta's career took off, which explains the last half of the tweet.
Nearly two decades later, he resurrected in the same way another career in difficulty. Tabarez first heard of Luis Suarez in a deprecatory tone, so much so that he felt sympathetic to him. Suarez missed goals, lost possession, was prone to the theater and was even hostile to coaches and support staff. Some of them even called it "borderline". But Tabarez saw something in him and asked those who criticized him: "Have not you seen what he's been trying to do?" I saw that, OK, he lost the ball a lot, but he always got the better of his rival. He always tried to overtake a defender head-to-head;
He dug into the psyche of Suarez, explained that his desires came from his background – he came from a broken family living in one of the most difficult townships of Montevideo. "I realized that he needed advice, a warm arm around him.I also noted that he was stubborn and stubborn and needed to deal with sensitivity." I thought of a metaphor and I told him, "Every career is like a ladder, you're always stuck at one step from the last opportunity." Confidence was immediately won, "he recalls in a documentary on the attacker
.All the generation of La Celeste swore by the influence of Tabarez in their lives Diego Godin affectionately called the "godfather." The support staff l & # 39; "Che", for his fascination with the Argentine revolutionary, Che's motto, "you have to harden without losing any tenderness," is nailed to a plaque on the wall of his house, and he named his daughter Tania, after Che's last comrade, apparently revolutionary.It is his love of Che who has re ndu El Maestro immensely popular at Boca Juniors.
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Last year, during the World Cup qualifiers, a journalist asked him: "Coach, why do you take so much effort? When you're so sick "A burst of rage pbaded over his Tabarez's face, before he hid him with a gregarious smile and retorted," Why, you do not want me to be the first coach to win the World Cup with crutches "Tabarez does not joke, but when he does, sarcasm saws through the skin and bones.
The journalist was referring to Tabarez's chronic neuropathy, which is why he uses crutches and sometimes even a scooter. But that did not alter his mental faculties. "Not a bit", according to him – and especially his skills in strategy. Said Diego Godin in an interview to Uruguay TV: "In fact, he has become more sharp and more determined to show that he can be a great coach." He is a living embodiment of what he says. he has taught us and still tells us what we call the football brand Garra Charrúa. "
Garra Charrúa, a word borrowed from the native Indian diction, is a Uruguayan expression meaning tenacity (referring to bungalows) . Often the coach was blamed for the players, especially Suarez, whose last two World Cups ended with red cards, pushing the philosophy to the extreme and biting Giorgio Chiellini in 2014. But Tabarez, while defending Suarez in public, admonished him in locker room, and even after the end of the World Cup in Brazil, had the habit of continuing to talk to him. "He scolded me for my stupidity, but at the same time did not blame or condemn me.He said that I was very important to Uruguayan and world football, but I have to change, I apologized to him many times after that, "wrote Suarez in his autobiography
. The spirit of Garra Charraua and Che's philosophy can also be seen in Tabarez football. "We are not the most artistic teams, and we are not blessed with huge potential flows like our neighbors (Argentina and Brazil) .We only have one-tenth of their population So we have to fight to win matches, it can sometimes be ugly, but as Che said, we would look to win without losing our tenderness. "
The philosophy of his football is also the philosophy of his life. This is written on crutches and mobility chair.
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The first pbadage of Tabarez as a Uruguayan coach, in 1988, came with an introduction to the communist political writer Eduardo Galeano. Victor Hugo and Fyodor Dostoevsky are heard in the corners of the cloakroom. A former teacher himself, he set up libraries in training centers, forced to read clbadics from around the world, so that some of his detractors whispered to him: "God, our coach was a teacher, not a butcher." Argentinian visionary Jose Pekerman persuaded the sports council to set up youth academies in various parts of the country, as well as travel across the country for talents under the age of four.
He radicalized the football culture in Uruguay, although his efforts were stalled after the failure of Uruguay in the second round of the 1992 World Cup.
"The Master fails the World Cup test ", shouted a national newspaper. But, paradoxically, it took Tabarez himself to resurrect Uruguay after 14 years of global wandering. He started exactly where he stopped, focusing on youth development and educating footballers. "Apart from the strategies, he made us understand that we had the highest level of literacy in the continent, that we had the highest life expectancy rate on the continent. We have heard from any European writer, even those from other American countries.It has made us intellectual footballers, "said Edinson Cavani in a TV interview
Tabarez explained his reason for doing so. to be, which in Uruguay is simply known as the "Tabarez method": "I am a footballer, but I understand that there are things more important than football." But there are things that the Football can help.Sport can greatly contribute to health and education, which are the two measures we use for development, not just for wealth.Football should help marginalized people in society, to contribute to the e opportunity for government policies to encourage its use as a stimulating activity to combat idleness.
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