“Respect does not mean just saying to me “You” or speaking in a tactful manner, but sincerity in training and giving everything you have in training and matches, respecting time, whether in anything related to the club, also respecting the club, the public, the referees, your teammates and the competitor, as it must be Respecting the difference between us as people, and these are things I cannot negotiate, without which we cannot create an excellent work environment.” Yannick Ferrara
Yannick Ferreira is one of the potential candidates to succeed Pitso Mosimane in Al-Ahly training, as he meets the specifications that the Al-Ahmar management sees for the future of the team.
Really
Ferreira says in previous statements: “Some coaches, as soon as they receive offers, they accept immediately, I do not like this way, I have some of the values that I adhere to.”
“I used to play football since I was young, I had big dreams like any child, when I reached the age of 22 I realized that I would not play for Manchester United or, for example, play in the World Cup, which made me stop playing football and do something else. “.
“I have always been a leader in what I do, I went to training in order to help the children progress quickly, I got all the necessary certificates, and I started training children under 12 years old at Anderlecht for 6 years.”
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“I think that training children is aimed at making their development technically and technically regardless of the results, with attention to the results at the level of international tournaments, I think that this mixture is what is needed.”
“I have coached many well-known players now, such as the Lukaku brothers, Telemans, Adnan Januzaj and Leander Dendoncker.”
“I remember Romelu Lukaku, who was promoted to the club at the age of 16 and played with the first team, he was very special, and when he played with us again in mixed matches between the ages of 12 until 16 years old, he was happy to score goals as he plays with the first team in Anderlecht, He was an excellent striker, an excellent scoring machine, and I think these players added more to me than I did to them.”
Jannick became a video performance analyst within Anderlecht and then moved to the Ghent team, and from there as assistant coach Michel Prudhomme in the Saudi Al Shabab club while continuing his work as a video analyst.
Youngest coach in the history of the Belgian League
Young Ferreira became the coach of the Belgian team Royal Charleroi for the first time at the age of 31, after a decision from the Iranian Abbas Bayat, president of the club known for his “crazy” decisions. When everyone goes to the left, he decides to go to the right after he gave several interviews with him in 2012. Iranian business.
In July 2012, Ferreira signed his first contract as a coach and at 31 years 10 months and 4 days became the youngest in Belgian league history.
The young coach tried to escape away from the relegation zones, to be accompanied by Charleroi in surviving hard before leaving to Saint-Truiden in the second division. Renew the contract to accomplish the task already in its second season.
In the preparatory season, the coach faced a team from Hungary playing in the European championships in preparatory matches, to be delayed in the first half with two goals without a response, and he told the players between the two halves: “I understand the difference between playing in the second division and playing in the Belgian League or teams playing in Europe, but we have to We play our way even if we lose 8-0, the most important thing is to enjoy football.” Indeed, the team managed to return and tied with a score of 2-2.
Once again, the team faced Charlton, the English club, but this time the team won by a clean four to prove the quality of the coach’s ideas.
After 6 matches in the Belgian league, which it managed to win against Genk and Club Brugge, the team was really hungry, very ambitious and pressing hard no matter the name of the opponent.
“I had ambition, quality and enthusiasm to achieve something for the club with a very small budget, I was paid 2,500 euros a month in the second division, so I wanted players with the same qualities.”
“At our stadium, we were playing on artificial turf. We were like a five-a-side football team, with a capacity of 12,000 spectators, which is great for matches in the second division in Belgium. They helped us win some points. Outside our stadium, in the mud and bad stadiums, we were like rugby teams.”
After that, he moved to coaching Standard de Liege, the biggest step in his career, after a great difficulty at the beginning of the season. The club even slipped to 16th and last place in the standings in October 2015.
Ferreira then beat Anderlecht (1-0), followed by Club Brugge (2-0) at home, and after finishing seventh in the classic stage of the Belgian championship, he failed to qualify his team for the play-off matches.
On the other hand, he won the Belgian Cup on 20 March 2016 by defeating Club Brugge 2-1, thus qualifying directly for the group stage of the 2016-2017 European League.
The 2016-2017 season got off to a bad start again with Standard Liege with a defeat in the Belgian Super Cup against Brugge and only one win in the first 5 league matches, and this is not enough for the administration that wants to finish the season in the top three.
Yannick Ferreira was sacked from the club on 6 September 2016, one year after his arrival.
staying at home
He then moved to coach Mechelen in the Belgian League, and tried to ascend with them to the European Championships, but he was also sacked after the results declined in his second season with the team.
From October 2017 until July 2018, he stayed at his home without any training offers, before agreeing to coach Vasland Beveren.
He signed a contract for two seasons, and was sacked from the club on November 11, 2018 after disappointing results (14th place in the championship with only one win and two points behind the last).
He only lasted 5 months with them, as Yannick did not feel comfortable with them and stayed in his house for 11 months again.
This is my view of football
“My ambition now is to be able to show my true personality and not try to adapt to the club’s culture.”
Before entering these experiences, Ferreira (Charleroi, Standard Dolig, Saint Troyden) gave interviews to explain his philosophy in football and his style, but in Michelin and Beveren clubs they signed him directly because of his brilliance in previous clubs.
Yannick Ferreira believes in some of the values that are a key factor in accepting his offers, including respect, determination to reach the goal and the element of leadership, not giving up and team spirit in general, and good communication that is the general framework.
“Some clubs contract with players without agreeing on certain values, so it often happens that the player sees himself above the team, and creates problems due to lack of commitment.”
“I am a very peaceful person, but I will not let anyone stand between me and the realization of my dreams. My departure from any team because of my adherence to these principles is considered crazy by some, but it was always the best choice.”
Some players who are older than the young coach (31 years old at the time) rioted, but he acted sharply and excluded the players from training and then matches, and usually press conferences about these players, the coach won those matches without these players, which gave him great strength in the locker room Clothing.
He also specified how to manage things and the auxiliary device for him and the way for management to deal with him in order to set broad outlines before going through the experiments.
And also his style of training, how he deals with the players individually or collectively, then the team’s offensive and defensive style
At the beginning of his career as a coach, Ferreira was the “Reactive” coach before in recent years he tried to become the “active” initiative, he has his own principles, but he has to adapt to the club’s situation sometimes.
“When I went through the Vasland Beveren experience, I always said to myself, it doesn’t matter who the opponent is and his way, this is our style and it will not change, it will not work because of the lack of potential or mentality to achieve this, for example Pep Guardiola I do not think that he will easily succeed in changing the mentality and culture Atlético Madrid, as well as for Manchester United, who used to really take the initiative before that mentality changed in the past years, you look at the culture and philosophy of the club and then you find the right players for that.”
As for training, if you win the last match, you will be a good coach, or if you lose, you are a bad coach. More game details.
“My advice to young coaches is not to look at their salaries, but rather what they receive upon dismissal, because they will surely be ousted. Psychologically, it is very painful.”
new experience
The young coach received a call from the president of Al-Fateh club to go again towards the Saudi Professional League, but this time as a technical manager, Yannick watched 6 matches the club played in the league before collecting one point before accepting the offer of the club president and in the end, he accepted the offer.
“After accepting the offer, I took 3 assistants and told them that we are here on a very difficult mission to save the club, and after several weeks I realized that it was a place where I could stay longer.”
Yannick managed to save Al-Fateh from relegation to the lower division, and the club’s management renewed his contract for two years.
His schematic style
Yannick always played the tactical 4-2-3-1 with the opening that turns into more than one form during the match, such as 4-3-3 or 4-4-2, and the opening depends on a fake striker in most matches.
Al-Fateh had more than one form and type of construction, the most important of which was the reliance on transverse construction, especially in front of the big clubs, which reduces the opportunity for the opponent to cut the ball in dangerous areas, and this requires expanding the stadium.
Al-Fateh in the construction process relied on the fall of the pivotal player “Soufiane Bin Dabke” in front of the two central defenders or between them, and the backs expand the field to give the ball carrier more passing options.
In the case of applying high pressure from the opponent, the opening players send long balls and do not risk building from behind.
It also relied on the counterattack in front of the strong teams, after strong pressure on the ball carrier, then the breakout and sending a longitudinal ball in the spaces to the wings, the rebounds of the opening were not shy, but with a high offensive intensity.
Al-Fateh with Yannick Ferreira succeeded in transforming from a purely defensive team competing for relegation, and playing a draw only against the seniors in the Saudi League, to a more daring and attacking team.
On the defensive level, Al-Fateh plays in a high-pressure style in most of the matches. It presses tightly and makes it difficult for the opponent to build from the back and gradation with the ball is almost impossible, and with the numerical density in the opponent’s areas, the opening pressure is usually successful either by cutting the ball or forcing the opponent to play long balls.
With the choice of the high pressure method, the coach decided to play with an advanced defense, while if the pressing process did not succeed, he returns to medium pressure in a 4-4-2 manner with the convergence of the midfielder’s lines.
translator for the first time
In the second season, the Al-Fateha team succeeded in achieving the seventh place in the Saudi League. It was able to defeat all the big teams in the Saudi League. It also reached the semi-finals of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup and the maximum of Al-Hilal team.
Ferreira asked to support the team with some players, but they were not at the desired level, and in one of the matches during the season, 17 players were absent from the team due to the new Corona virus, so he did not even know the names of some players despite the good start of the team.
Ferreira criticized the behavior of players who stay up late at night and eat fast food, which taught him patience and work to modify their behavior.
It was a very new experience for the Belgian coach, and he even had a translator for the first time in his career in order to convey the instructions to the team, and he said about that I saw some strangeness at the beginning before realizing that it might be a good thing because it allows him to think in light of the translation process.
The young coach possessed many information about football, and at the same time it became necessary to gradually give it to the Al-Fateh players and not at once, as he was doing in Belgium – who were well established in football – which showed excellent results on the Al-Fateh team.
Ferreira believes that a psychiatrist or “life coach” must be an essential component within the team, as it helps how to deal with pressure and how the team is organized in general, not just giving lectures at intervals without real benefit to the team.
And this should not be mentioned to the players, many of whom, if they talk to the psychiatrist, think that I have the problem, which is not true.
Ferreira, who speaks 5 languages, continued for two years and 3 months in Al-Fateh, during which he had wonderful moments with the Saudi club, and since January 2022, Yannick Ferreira is still waiting for an offer to return to training.
Yannick rejected an offer from one of the clubs whose name was not revealed because he was not convinced of the project and philosophy of the club’s culture, and he is now looking for a club that matches his own principles and philosophy of playing.
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