The interest of the top clubs in the mentor of a modest English club from a small resort town on the La-Channel coast is not accidental. Because Andoni Iraola not only transformed a modest English club into a true thunderstorm of authorities, but also “became the main apologette of the modern approach to the organization of the game.” The quote is not someone but the Guardiola himself.
According to Pep, “Contemporary football is a style in which Bournmouth plays. In addition to the team trained by Iraola, and for which our Ilya Zabarny acts, Mansiti coach also mentioned Newcastle, Brighton and Liverpool. But the first PEP called Bornmouth.
What recently has recently deserved such pleasant characteristics from one of the best coaches of today? To answer this question, it is better to go from afar. From the moment when in 2023, the little-known Spanish coach Andoni Iraola moved from the unimaginable “Rayo Vallekano” into an even more unobtrusive “Bournemouth”.
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Now it is difficult to believe, but then the arrival in the team of foreign coach-Nounum was perceived almost in the bayonet. And all because the former Harry O’Nil coach was able to cope with the tournament task – he kept Bornmouth in the elite of English football. And this is after the match against Liverpool, the wards of O’Neil were burned 0: 9, and the championship was completed with the depressing difference of the goals scored and missed: -34.
However, among the fans of Bornmouth there were many supporters of football O’Nila: Oldskulny, viscous, but combat. However, such football did not convince the American boss “Cherry” Bill Fooli. And he suddenly decided to change the coaching vector by inviting Iraol.
At that moment, Andoni just leaned to his feet like a coach. With his “Rayo Vallecano” Iraola left Segunda to the Primera, and then reached the semifinals of the King Cup.
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. Andoni Iraolas while the trainer is Rayo Vallecano He reached the semifinals of the Spanish Cup and at the head of an even more modest Spanish collective – Mandes.
Actually, here are all the achievements of the former Athletic Captain in the coaching field. And he began to train completely: after two months without victory at the head of Cyprus aek he was pointed at the door. It is good that he did not stay out of work for a long time. Mandez turned, and then went and went.
Walverde and Bielsi, two trainers who made the most unforgettable impression on Iraola’s football player, who spent the overwhelming part of his career in Athletic, went.
Interestingly, Iraola’s football player began as a forward (at the children’s level), and in Bilbao at an adult level he was re -qualified into a flank defender.
He made his first steps in Andon’s football in Antiguoco amateur team, for which he performed with the current Arsenal trainer Michell Artet. It is noteworthy that for the same team, only in other age categories, at one time played Hubi Alonso and Arits Aduris. But even more noteworthy is that very modest in all respects Antigocoko at the junior level broke the best football academies of Spain.
So it is not surprising that the best representatives of Antiguoco were then taken away by the leading clubs of La League.
Iraoli was not lucky as his friend Arteti: he did not get to Barca. However, he got to Athletics and became a lifelong pedestal for the club with Bilbao. Andoni spent 508 matches (the fourth result in history) for the first athlete team, in which he scored 38 goals.
And he could spend more matches for his native club, but already in 33 years he decided to get in with football. And even then, at the finish of his player career, Iraola carefully summarized Valverde and Bielsa, trying to take all the best from these extraordinary coaches.
In short, the main thing that they took the future coach of Bournemuta and the apologist for modern football – pressing. Not even pressing, but “managed chaos”.
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Actually, the idea of a controlled chaos on the football field is not new. She was also practiced by Rinus Michaels and Valery Lobanovsky. And Biels brought this theory in the dogma. “If only work was played in football, then in such football I would always win” – these famous words of Bielsi his talented student Iraola took into service. And changed a little.
To modify the formula of the Argentine “crazy genius”, the Basque had to put the first part of last season. His start at the head of Bournemouth did not set out. In the first nine rounds of “cherries” did not know the taste of victories, and the unchanging champion of England “Manci” did not leave from “Bournemouth” and a wet place – 6: 1.
In October of the same 2023, all-knowing English bookmakers took bet on the first coaching resignation in the APL, and it was Iraola that was the number one applicant. That’s when the supporters of Old School Harry O’Nila. Like, they changed the awl to soap.
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. Andoni Iraolas and the Guardiol Jew However, the nerves did not surrender in the fool, and the most predictable resignation did not occur in the season. Probably Foli really knows something. Well, not surprising: it is the same Bill Foli, who organized the team of NHL “Vegas Golden Knights”, and six years after the club was born, the Stanley Cup was taken.
Foli planned to go to European Cups for Bournemouth for 2026. This is his most daring calculations. However, it may happen that cherries under the guidance of a recent Spanish purity, who now wants to get many top clubs, can break into the Europeanaire even earlier: already this season.
This season, the wards of Iraolas finally understand everything that the coach wanted from them. Bornmut now is now a real chemistry between the trainer and the players. There is no hint of the misunderstanding that was at the start of last season. This season, the company was laid on the Tottenham, Arsenal, Manciti, Manjanited, Newcastle, and the main instigator of the current APL – “Nottingham Forrest”, they defeated 5: 0.
And now, hardly one of the fans of the “red-black” team will mention Harry O’Nila. Now they have another idol who put the team interesting, intellectual football. “Modern football”, as Guardiola just said.
Therefore, it is hardly worth wondering that if this Basque modest who loves English weather, Zologok and Murakami’s work will be in another club. More prominent who will not pay paid to Burnemouth for Iraol a penalty of ten million pounds.
Source: Sport.ua