Luis Enrique - footballer and coach

A good football player in the past does not mean a good coach in the future. Seldom does any of the professional athletes manage to become such a successful coach. But Luis Enrique managed to achieve significant results both in his career as a football player and as a coach who can lead the team to high places in the world ranking. How can he find a common language with the stars of world football and subordinate them to iron discipline and order.

Luis Enrique - biography

May 8, 1970 in the small Spanish town of Gijon was born Luis Enrique Martinez Garcia, the future pride of Spanish football. His way in big football, the young Spaniard began, speaking for the club of his native city - "Sporting" (1981 - 1990). Having gained experience, Luis Enrique moves to Madrid "Real", in which he remained until 1996. At the same time, he begins to speak for the national team of Spain.

Everyone knows the irreconcilable confrontation between the Spanish "Real" and "Barcelona", and when in 1996 Enrique on a free transfer passes to the camp of blue garnet, the fans of "Barcelona" meet him very wary. Thanks to his professional game and devotion to football, he managed to quickly win the hearts of numerous "Barca" fans.

For 8 years, Louis spent in the "Barcelona", becoming even her captain. After his departure in 2004, his successor was Carles Puyol. Luis Enrique is a generalist football player who could play both in attack and defense.

Life after the game

After the career of a professional football player was completed, the sport was still an integral part of life Enrique. He took a great interest in surfing and spent almost half a year on the coast of Australia, at the same time improving his English. Luis Enrique belongs to the kind of people who are always looking for new adventures and do not like routine everyday life.

Before taking the place of the head coach of the second team of Barcelona, he traveled the world for 4 years and practiced extreme sports. Snowboarding, marathon running, cycling, triathlon - that's a list of his hobbies in those years. The famous New York marathon, the cycling race of Cabrenthausos, the marathon in Amsterdam ... The results that Luis Enrique showed at these competitions, improved every year.

Preparing for the Ironman competition in Frankfurt, Louis and his friends even made a short film about the stages of this training. Cassettes with this film dispersed instantaneously, and the money was transferred to the Barcelona fund for helping orphans.

Beginning of coaching career

Such character traits as the pursuit of self-improvement, firmness of spirit and great diligence will prove useful to Louis once he starts his coaching career. Discipline and order are the main requirements that he presented to the players in each club, which he had to train.

The second part of his native "Barcelona" was his first coaching experience, and, it should be noted that he coped with the task at "excellent". Third place in the Segunda showed that as coach Luis Enrique can achieve a lot.

Coach of the Italian "Roma"

In 2011, Luis Enrique and his family moved to Italy and became coach of Roma. Why the coaching career in the Italian club did not turn out as successfully as at home, it's hard to say. The only season he spent as a coach of "Roma", took away all the strength and energy of the young coach, because to work half-heartedly Enrique is not used.

At the last press conference, Louis wholeheartedly thanked both fans and members of the Italian club and was at the same time very sincere. The topic of his disagreements with Totti has long been exaggerated in every possible way by the media, but even at this last meeting, Luis Enrique did not take dirty linen out of the hut and go down to find out the reasons for the unsuccessful season of the Italians. Complex relations in the team were before the arrival of Luis Enrique, and after his departure they did not get any better.

But he did not give a single word that the greatest fault for the atmosphere in the team lies with the club's managers, who in every possible way interfered in the work of any coach who came to "Roma".

Return to Barcelona

Luis Enrique, whose personal life was not the subject of vivid discussions and piquant scandals - a wonderful family man and father who brings up in his children the qualities that once helped him become a successful person.

After Luis Enrique received an invitation from the leadership of "Barca" to lead the team, it's time for him new challenges and challenges. The management of any club, and even more so "star", like Barcelona, assumes the coach has such qualities as patience and perseverance. And all this was demonstrated by Luis Enrique, having headed one of the most famous clubs of the Old World.

He demanded of the players full dedication and obedience, all should have been laid out to the maximum at every training, whether they are players with a world-wide name, or beginners making the first steps in the team.

The result of such coaching was the championship of "Barcelona" in the season of 2015/16. No matter what they say behind him, Luis Enrique is one of those people who firmly believe in their strategy and is able to take responsibility in difficult situations.