Top When Playing, These 3 Ex-Players Are Not Good at Coaching

DBasia.news – Coaching career often becomes the next career when a player retires. But not all of them are successful.

Zinedine Zidane, Jurgen Klopp, Antonio Conte and Didier Deschamps are coaches with the status of former players. Of these names, not all of them have success stories when becoming a player. However, all four were equally brilliant when becoming interpreters of tactics.

Different stories experienced by Alan Shearer, Diego Maradona, and Thierry Henry. Although all three have the status of reliable attackers while still playing, but they actually have difficulty making the team they trained to score goals against opponents.

The similarities of the three attackers are equally plummet when trusted to coach the team. In fact, all three of them had experience being fired.

So what was the grim story of Shearer, Maradona, and Henry when they became coach? Here is the story :

Alan Shearer

Alan Shearer still holds the record as the player who has scored the most goals in the Premier League. The Newcastle United legend has incised 260 goals. However, the sweet note did not continue when Shearer was trusted as manager.

Although he never really expressed interest in becoming a manager after hanging up his boots in 2006, Alan Shearer made it happen three years later. He was appointed as Newcastle manager in April 2009 after health problems befall permanent boss Joe Kinnear.

At that time, The Magpies were at the edge of the abyss of degradation. Alan Shearer who was expected to be the savior also gave a speck of hope.

Alan Shearer’s first match took place not as expected. Newcastle defeated Chelsea.

In the end, Newcastle were relegated. Newcastle only won one match and collected five points from a potential total of 24 points.

After the season ended, Alan Shearer did not get a promotion as a permanent manager. He swerved into a soccer commentator. At the same time, Chris Hughton took over Newcastle and returned to the Premier League one season later.

Diego Maradona

There is no doubt that Diego Maradona is one of the best players in football history. He brought Argentina win the 1986 World Cup. At club level, Maradona won LaLiga and Serie A.

However, the fact that the maestro experienced many personal problems – ranging from discipline to drug abuse – became a sign of danger for his next career.

Diego Maradona was appointed to coach the Argentine national team at the end of 2008. Although he had been defeated by Bolivia 6-1, but Maradona brought Lionel Messi and his friends to the 2010 World Cup.

Albicelestes step stopped in the quarter-finals after Germany crushed his squad four goals without reply. Diego Maradona was released from his job as a coach.

At the moment, Diego Maradona coaches an Argentine club, Gimnasia de la Plata. Of the 20 matches, Maradona’s squad won only seven matches.

Thierry Henry

Thierry Henry is one of the best foreign players in the Premier League. He scored more than 200 goals for Arsenal. When he moved to Barcelona, ​​Henry won two LaLiga titles and one Champions League title. Then, he retired at New York Red Bulls in 2014.

Thierry Henry had begun to switch to coaching in 2015. One year later, he gained the confidence of being an assistant manager in the Belgian national team. At that time, Henry took part in the Belgian journey through to the 2018 World Cup semifinals.

His track record was enough for AS Monaco to make Henry as manager in October 2018. Apparently, it turned out to be a wrong decision.

Thierry Henry’s story with Monaco lasted only three months. He was then dismissed in the last week of January 2019.

Thierry Henry dropped AS Monaco after only four wins in 20 matches. Meanwhile, the record of defeat reached 11 times. Moreover, Monaco only scored 15 goals, but conceded 36 goals.

After briefly disappearing from circulation, Thierry Henry reappeared by capturing the MLS club, Montreal Impact. Since his arrival, the club has won one victory, three draws and one defeat.

It is still too early to judge Thierry Henry’s performance because MLS 2020 was delayed due to the corona virus pandemic. But the fact is, as a coach, Henry only has a winning percentage of 20 percent.