Re: Ivica Osim to possibly take charge of Japan NT Today news on the ''Turkey media'' says: Turkey super league club Fenerbahce looking for sign Zico.. ''Brazil NT coach Perreira advice to Turkish club for sign Zico''. IWA
Re: Ivica Osim to possibly take charge of Japan NT This is the official site of Turkish super league's one of giants club Fenerbahce ''home page'' -> http://www.fenerbahce.org/detay.asp?ContentID=4034 Former Japan NT coach Zico officially at Fenerbahce. The contrat is : 2 year. Sincerely IWA
Turkish club Fenerbahce sign Zico as coach news search : http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060704/kyodo/d8il90j81.html
This is the official site of Turkish super league's one of giants club Fenerbahce ''home page'' -> http://www.fenerbahce.org/detay.asp?ContentID=4034 Former Japan NT coach Zico officially at Fenerbahce. The contrat is : 2 year. Sincerely IWA
Hi everybody I am from Turkey and a fan of Fenerbahce. As you all know, we signed a two year contract with Zico who is Japanese National Team coach. Since we do not have enough info about him, we are making research on webs. Most of info about him belongs to his succesfull player carrier and not so many things about his coaching carrier. We heard that he had been coached one team in J-League and after that he became the head coach of JNT. If you do not mind, I would like to ask you couple of questions about him: 1- What is his philosophy as a coach? What kind of system does he use (4-4-2/3-5-2/4-3-3 or any form of those systems)? 2- How is his relation with his players? Does he like so much discipline, or does he so friendly? How does he apparoach to young players and experienced, old players? Does he like playing with stars or players who knows their responsibility? 3- In Turker there is a very huger pressure on coahes? Our sport jurnalists always find somethin to ctisize. Is he strong under pressure? Does he have good relations with press? I have thses questions right now. If you have time please help me to know much more about him as a coach? Thanks!
Good luck to Fenerbahce and Zico's career there. I will try to answer your questions as follows: 1. Zico's philosophy is "Encourage individualism and creativity without destroying discipline." He picks a system, basic tactics, and members for a match, then lets the players decide the details (he encourages meetings between the players). This philosophy was met with partial success and partial failure with Japan national team. He seems to prefer 4-4-2, although he used it sparingly compared to 3-5-2, the preferred system by Japan, depending on what kind of players were available. He occasionally experimented with 3-6-1 and even 3-4-3, but they were largely met with failures. 2. Zico is definitely the friendly type; so much so that Japanese players, with a culture valuing discipline and order, were more or less bewlidered. That is NOT to say that he is tolerant of "delinquents", however. There are times where Japan national team players acted out of order (sneaking out during a team training camp to "strip bar" (best way to explain it in English), leaving the team before a WC qualifying game because you were not given a chance), and Zico responded by NEVER calling back these players, even though some of them had great careers, popularity, and skills. Zico lets the players act on their own will and rarely criticize or scold them AS LONG AS THEY ACT PROFESSIONALLY. One "unprofessional conduct" and boom, you are out of his team. As for attitudes towards youngs and veterans, it's kind of hard to say. Zico doesn't seem to go for the rookies very much, but Japan team during 2002~ 2006 had its majority of players during age group of 23~29, so I really can't say much on this. 3. This is also hard to answer, mainly because I don't know how Turkish media compares agains Japanese media. He usually responds friendly to media, but he answers criticisms with defensive comments about either his team or his players. He rarely defended himself, though; his attitude was like "I will do whatever I deem necessary; if Japanese Football Association deems me unworthy, fire me as you wish." Then again, Japanese media was always kind to him... I hope these answer your questions. If you wish to know more, I will be happy to look it up.
Actually he had never really coached before coaching Japan's national team. He was with Kashima Antlers of the J-league for a while as kind of a back-up coach and trainer.
Thank you so much, this has so many details and I know much more about him as a coach now. Thank you again!
Thanks to Zico, Fenerbahce failed to get past Dynamo Kiev to qualify for the CL group stage. I really feel bad about Fenerbahce fans.
Its a shame, you think your getting someone good when you get a national team coach, but little do they know..