Leo Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe - even if you are not a sports fan, you will definitely know these names. They have millions of followers on social networks, they are one of the main characters of popular culture, they are football stars. Somewhere in the shadow of these luminaries, the coaching profession has been undeservedly lost.

Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling, with the pedantry inherent in the Germans, describes the history of the formation of the coaching profession from the moment football was born, turning it from a game of gentlemen into a game of hard workers, and then into professional sports. This is a detailed account of coaching ideas, innovative tactical decisions and personalities that influenced the development of the game. Find out how the British hit-and-run style was born| what is the “Danubian school”| how the W-M system was created| why the "total football" of the Dutch changed the philosophy of the game | how Valery Lobanovsky was the first to practice a scientific approach to the game | why Guardiola became the coach of Barcelona, and not Mourinho, and what does Johan Cruyff have to do with it | how Jurgen Klopp breathed new passion into the game | and many more fascinating pages of football history.

You have in your hands the history of the people at the touchline - those who made football what we know it today.

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