Jesse Marsch’s Mollycoddling shows the mistake of our cultural norms

After the Canadian men’s football team was defeated 2-0 on Thursday evening by Mexico, head coach Jesse Marsch was more than satisfied with his team’s show. Based on the choice of words, he was thrilled.

If he had said it in Spanish, it might have made sense. But it sounded a bit strange.

“If we can only be a little clearer in the last third and some of our advantages can turn into real opportunities and some of our real opportunities into targets, we can increase the overall idea of ​​the performance, which was the performance,” said Marschsch later. “Because the performance was really strong from so many other perspectives.”

So many other perspectives except goals.

Compare this with Marsch’s counterpart, which for America, Mauricio Pochettino. The USA controlled 93 minutes of its game against Panama, missed a million chances and then lost in the 94 .. If there was ever an instance of a team that was beaten by bad bounces, it was that.

Pochettino, an Argentinian, put together in his press and looked as if he had come directly from the vet where he had put his dog down. What positive aspects did he see during his team?

“I am very disappointed. The way we approached the game and the game started was not in the right way. We play too slowly … so comfortably on the field. We didn’t show aggression with the ball,” said Pochettino. “The first half was really painful to see.”

He was even more dable in his mother tongue. On a certain level, it’s about status. March has some. Pochettino and Tottenham, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain has trained much more. Large trainers do not crush words. The less a trainer, the greater the call.

But on a few basic levels, it is the difference between the North American approach for sport and the rest of the world. We do not often see this in comparison to the head of the head because so few people who train on this continent are foreigners. The few who have been here for years and have learned our rules.

Pochettino is a new arrival. He speaks to the old world – tends to see what was missing and not what could have improved.

March, like most North Americans, speaks the other way around. He can only criticize in the context of a victory. Losses are time to talk about fluff feathers, even if the bird in question is bare.

This is not new, but the coaches of the not so long past had a rhetorical wobbling. Every now and then they open their employees. No longer. Every time a trainer criticizes his players on this continent, it is a great news. If it happens, it is reasonable – even expected – traced back to the players.

We don’t talk much about the cult of participation, but this behavior is a distant wave of this pedagogical movement. They have been giving trophies since the 1980s, but it was only 30 years later a big problem.

One of the diffraction points was one of the New York Times in 2013 by author Ashley Merman. In it, she warned that universities are filled with young adults, “who grew up to get endless awards that do the necessary work, but do not see the need to do it well.”

This connection between structured children’s athletes and the title of future workers made many people intuitive. Culture has spent the decade to slowly reconcile it and then move violently in the other direction. There is a dotted line between Merman’s proposal and the current sense in many that the university formation must be brought to the heel.

A place that was protected from this shift – the sports complex. Today’s Co -Coach was yesterday’s yesterday’s player. These people have their whole life in the area of ​​the game and the trophies. Almost every contemporary sports manager who worked on the highest level was grown up at the climax of the “participation”.

The few dinosaurs who had not learned to adapt their behavior. Those who were not expelled by force.

Listen how coaches speak to anywhere else. A foreign trainer is often unprepared. You can hear it in the ascent and case of your voice. They think about what they almost say at the same time to say it. That’s why they sound authentic.

North American coaches threaten because they work out an internal script. It’s not about what you say, but what you shouldn’t. This habit of avoiding land mines makes your forecast and inproof talks sound after a deposition.

In the rare cases in which real emotions incorporate their voices, they know that they are coming out with something they will regret.

In South America, coaches and GMS are released to lose. They released in North America because they have lost the team, which is a different way to say that they said the wrong person the wrong person. Usually a player; Sometimes the media. Conclusion – someone was honest if he shouldn’t have been.

This is neither good nor bad. The winners will continue to be celebrated and losers insult. The difference is that the people responsible have the feeling of feeling what they always felt – many speak of the recording in a completely different way – but now they would never say it.

When you call a thing what it is, the middle class North American makes it uncomfortable. This tendency is one of many reasons why we are in our current chaos.

I assume that North American coach will soon speak so differently so soon enough – very soon. What happens in Silicon Valley, New York and Washington will run to them. You will be described what Meta -CEO Mark Zuckerberg -a former nerd, which has become obsessed during his Midlife crisis, is called “male energy”.

Undoubtedly, they will understand it as much as the other extreme.

The point to say it as it is is not to feel people bad. It makes them feel that they could and should be better.

They do not come to this place with insults or breasts. They come there by consistently and uncomplicated – something we could strive for whether we play or not.