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"Other Spanish teams were better than the 1964 side but never achieved anything. But, then, we were a team, not a collection of talented individuals."1 - Luis Suarez, Spanish football player who was a part of the 1964 Euro Cup winning team, regarding the Spanish national team's failure to win any major championship since 1964. "Aragonés [the coach] fostered a team spirit rarely seen with Spanish teams. In the process, he added a whole new dimension to Spanish soccer culture by demanding his team play as a unit."2 - Beaker, Inter Sports Wire3, after Spain's 2008 Euro Cup Triumph. "Luis Aragonés, the manager since 2004, set himself one overriding task – to create "teamness". If talented individuals didn't fit into the team pattern, then they wouldn't be included... To be a successful agent of change, a manager doesn't just need the intellectual capacity to understand what needs to be done. He requires the mental strength and, at times, sheer bloody-mindedness, to ignore the gathering clamor for an abandonment of a strategy that is bound to attack powerful vested interests."4 - David Bolchover, co-author of The 90-Minute Manager: Lessons from the Sharp End of Management. Breaking Through The (S)Pain Barrier!
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1] Tim Rich, "Euro 2008: Luis Aragonés' Spain Men
Learn the Value of Comradery," www.telegraph.co.uk, June 27, 2008. |
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