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What does it even mean, the coach "lost the locker room"?

Players who give up on themselves, remove responsibility from themselves, leak and blame the coach who has lost control, and allow themselves to play laxly until the next coach arrives.

How long will we be done with this distorted term?

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Paz Hasdai

Saturday, October 23, 2021, 9:30 p.m.

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The world of football is so engrossed and stuck in its clichés that sometimes familiar and seemingly normal and obvious expressions and terms are thrown into the air, but actually express a distorted reality.

One of them is "lost the locker room", a term that defines a coach who has already "lost" the players' trust and control and therefore must be replaced, as if it is a fate and not a process that can be controlled or prevented.

Although fans and commentators use this term quite a bit, the problem is that the footballers themselves have adopted it and think it is completely legitimate, because for them this is the reality, there is nothing to do, sometimes it happens, a coach "loses the locker room".

In fact, it is a waiver.

surrender.

Players convince themselves that the coach is no longer in control of matters, has no authority or authority, and should therefore leave.

So they say it to each other, maybe even leak to a journalist or two the inner secret and feelings from the locker room, most likely they even memorize it to themselves ("No, the coach lost it completely") and end up believing it wholeheartedly, as a decree That realizes itself.

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It is already normal to replace the decorated coach in the world and leave players anonymous.

Mourinho (Photo: Reuters)

The result is a disclaimer. For them, if the coach "loses the locker room", it's not their fault. It's not that they're the locker room ', the players who look down on him, disrespectfully, in disgust, the people the coach "loses", as if control over them is an elusive, hard-to-achieve thing, something the coach must fight for - not a basic matter of discipline and commitment. What is he losing? Their ability to listen to him, to follow his instructions, to give their best, to behave professionally. Things that should be taken for granted. Things they can prevent. After all, sometimes it is not the coach who "loses", but the players steal from him.

Footballers have the ability to smell the blood, and when they feel some slack or weak spot, they press on it. And if they read the magic words in the media - "the status of the coach has been undermined" - their immediate tendency is to let go, play in the ASK, get on the field and show a lack of desire, not run, make hand gestures, illustrate to the world, shout the cry - save, save, The coach has lost the locker room, bring in a replacement and fast.And to speed up the decision, today we will play badly and lose.

This is usually a more complex matter, because before a coach "loses a locker room" he also makes professional mistakes and wrong tactical decisions, and in sports the results are the ones that are decisive and produce pressure.

And of course we are familiar with this norm, the perception that it is not possible to replace an entire staff and it is better to replace one coach, it is cheaper and easier, and sometimes even really works.

Even if it means, for example, firing a decorated coach like Jose Mourinho, an experienced and skilled professional, with a rich resume replete with successes, who has already proven his abilities and knowledge - and leaving a young squad of players some anonymous and never won the title.

Be a genius, lose control, how easy and simple it is.

Van Leven (Photo: Danny Maron)

Asked the players to play happy football.

Lem (Photo: Bernie Ardov)

Anyway, what does that say about the role of coach? The players actually admit that it's all about energies, momentum, motivation. That they want change. Bnei Lem was asked what he said to the Netanya players before the 2: 4 over Maccabi Tel Aviv, and said: "I told them to play happy football, without fear." that's it? For one game it succeeded, the past shows that over time it takes a coach who knows a little more than that, but this conduct illustrates that the players also admit that a coach is the one who keeps them, knows how to keep them short, keep them in suspense, show charisma. It is far beyond professional knowledge. Even Barak Bachar lost it in Be'er Sheva.

Patrick Van Leven is an interesting study case.

No doubt his problems this season are far beyond locker room control, and God knows he made some serious professional mistakes, but the story with him is quite amusing and ironic, given the fact that last year he replaced Donis who "lost the locker room", the perception was that unlike Greek Patrick yes Knows how to read the players and approach them and get the most out of them, after a series of victories the commentators and fans considered him a genius, and now he just "lost it", and the players expect another magic solution, easy, simple.

Even he lost it sometime.

Bachar (Photo: Danny Maron)

For footballers (all over the world, it should be noted, not only in Israel), this is the easiest solution.

They live in a reality that allows them not to be at their best when conditions are not ideal.

A reality that receives drops of tension and lack of motivation.

After all, we all have bosses, most of us have faced difficult managers, we occasionally feel that the boss has lost the locker room, that not everyone is in favor, that he is in a bad mood, that he has lost control, that more could have been spent - but did it occur to us to complain, cry and give up?

And we, by the way, do not fulfill the dream of our lives, not all of us in the profession we love, not all of us are committed to the audience, and yet, work.

Then go to football, and are forced to come to terms with a strange and distorted reality, and understand why one week players play reluctantly, and a week later "prey on the grass."

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