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I know !@£$%$£@! disagrees with me about this but I strongly believe that coaching (ie work done on the training ground) isn't nearly as important in national tournaments as some managers (like Klinsmann) seem to claim. National teams need managing far more than they need coaching, and IMO Klinsmann is a coach not a manager. And as a coach he'll never have enough time with his squad to do much with them at a tactical level. What national teams need more than great tacticians is great man managers. People who can select the right players for the unique demands of tournament football, play everyone where they work best, build and maintain a great team spirit and keep things simple, so everyone knows exactly what they have to do. Klinsmann fails in those areas because he's a coach in a role that really requires a manager.
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