Blood on the Tracks
Michael Owen Level Analysis
Country: England
Player:Rice
I’m just not sure I agree with this. We’re massively overstating the effect of a mediocre playing career. Mourinho started his learning journey as Robsons interpreter, weren’t nothing to do with his dismal playing career.
What I’m getting at is this. There’s plenty of entry level roles in football that women can and should be doing which could then possibly act a springboard to greater things down the line. But without change at these entry levels we will never see change at the top. Being a football manager requires absolutely no inherent physical attributes which would prima facie favour a man over a woman. All you’ve done is given me a list of barriers to entry to women (needing to play men’s football…) which is basically proving the point that the entire set up is unnecessarily discriminatory.
Then again I remember guys like you choking on your dentures when we first started seeing female physios let alone that poor female linesman so it’s all good.
Exactly, this is my point. You don't have to be a good footballer to be a good manager. But Jose Mourinho was sat under the learning tree of a legendary manager like Bobby Robson when a translator for him Barca, he was ingrained in very high level mens football from an early age.
Who was Wiegman or whoever working with and studying under at 25 or whatever? I guarantee it wasn't a manager the calibre of Robson or anything close to the environment Mourinho was in at Barca.
My basic point is yeah, maybe in a decade or two we'll get a couple of the highest performing female managers in the mens game and they might do great.
But mens football exists and women's football exists and as far as I'm concerned the managerial aspect should largely follow suit. Tbh I think there are probably far too many average male managers in the women's game, probably acting as barriers to the growth of decent young female coaches / managers.
There comes a point to me where this debate just becomes about dogmatic equality.
Like when you watch women's football it's generally coached poorly and to far lesser standard than the equivalent level in mens football. I'm not going to pretend it's good out of blind ideology.