Why does the Premier want Spanish coaches?

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England is demanding Spanish labor to occupy their benches.

and

, who are

playing their seventh and fourth seasons at Manchester City and Arsenal respectively, have just been joined by

at Aston Villa, and last week

at Wolverhampton, making our country the that more foreign coaches contribute to the English league.

The phenomen is not new.

It started 18 years ago with

at Liverpool and, later,

arrived .

And the thing does not stay on the benches of the Premier.

There is also

at West Bromwich in the Championship, the English second division.

And in the locker rooms and offices the number does not stop growing, starting with

and

, sports directors of Manchester City and Leeds respectively.

There are explanations for this phenomenon for all tastes.

Orta has his own: «After the successes of the national team, with European Championships and World Cups, football began to look at Spain as a benchmark in knowledge, in capacity, in exporting talent...».

It coincides with the message, but also with the justification that

gave after falling in 2016 with City against Real Madrid in a Champions League semifinal: "The best football is played in Spain."

In the 21st century, Spain has won more than half of the Champions and Europa Leagues, and nobody like Lopetegui to seal the profile they are looking for in England.

As soon as he announced his signing, the first thing Wolverhampton posted on their social networks were images of his new coach when he trained

.

Orta, however, thinks that in our country football has been played well before, and that even "the 1986 team was not very different from the one that wins the World Cup, in fact they were very happy in Argentina that we were eliminated against Belgium".

The reason, he explains, is that «at that time, and later, perhaps due to certain complexes of ours to believe that the best was outside, we learned from all the schools that were around us, from the Balkan school with

or

;

They all came from the Argentine school:

...;

from the Brazilian school,

;

from the Italian came

;

of the Dutch,

, of course, but also

;

From the English school, which was a true innovation, came

.. That influence made us learn a little from all of them, and we were taking a model, I don't know whether to call it football, but of having the humility to learn from all of them, and I think England is now in this process.

Pep Guardiola in the band during a match of City.EFE

However, for the first executive director of the Premier, Rick Parry, it was the successes of Frenchman

that changed history, and began the globalization of the Premier: «We felt that the game was becoming internationalized, that we were isolated, and that we had to cross borders to be able to compete in Europe.”

However, the sex appeal of our coaches is not transferred to other European leagues.

Between the Italian Serie A, the French Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga we only find

sitting on the Bayer Leverkusen bench.

"If you look, those leagues are more local, you don't find many German coaches in France or Italy either, right?" Orta points out.

Except in England, what prevails is the national product.

Starting with the League, with 12 Spanish coaches for the 20 teams.

In Serie A there are 17 Italians for the same teams;

14 French in Ligue 1, and 12 Germans in the Bundesliga, although for 18 teams.

In the Premier, however,

For the former Manchester United and Valencia coaching staff Phil Neville or for the former Nottingham Forest Frank Clark the key is that the Premier "has money", can afford to bring "the best coaches", and also "their owners too They are foreign".

Mikel Arteta celebrating a victory with the Arsenal players. Social Networks

But the truth is that the English do not like English coaches either.

And reasons are not lacking.

None has won the Premier since this format was created in the 92-93 season.

won it 13 times, but he is Scottish, and the next on the list is already Guardiola with four, in what is being his longest experience on the bench.

The Premier started in the 90s with 16 English coaches for its 22 teams, and things have been reduced to the current five for 20 teams, which is outrageous compared to previous years.

Although there are indicators that say that, despite the latest signings of Emery and Lopetegui, a change in trend could be taking place.

For Jeremy Steele, CEO of Analytics FC, there is a

effect in the Premier as well.

The legislation says that now imported coaches must prove up to 36 months of experience in high-level leagues, and that they are "capable of contributing significantly to expanding the game in England at the highest level", something that in theory should not affect football. of this level.

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