The Prince of Asturias, Del Bosque, and the example of a leader
This weekend was awarded the Prince of Asturias Awards. Including one particularly exciting: a "Red" for making us dream, to be able to join that what politicians seem not to want, for giving us wings, to convey that any goal is attainable if you're a team and put your heart, because we too are worth it. An award well deserved, in the end after much bickering with the mega coaches, collected nine players representing the 23 that got us to touch the sky in South Africa. Casillas, Xavi, Llorente, Javi Martínez, Marchena, Capdevila, Jesús Navas, Queen and Mata were the privileged ones who were in Oviedo on Saturday, with Vicente del Bosque to the head.
Del Bosque has always demonstrated a practical and without ostentation, the other values \u200b\u200bthat fill the mouth, again it was the example of many of the officers and supposed leaders of our organizations should learn.
With his characteristic humility, and the naturalness of who makes a daily activity, Vicente del Bosque has signed another big chapter to his legend of a great leader. Having invited to attend the awards ceremony on Luis Aragones, who as we all remember was during the World's at stake and criticizing the Salamanca, was not satisfied with it, and in his speech thanked him for his great contribution to the success in South Africa Selection. He attributed the merit of victory Aragonés, and the great team of players, as if he had not even been there.
And last but not least, when it came out to collect the award, Vicente del Bosque personally approached the chair of Luis Aragones to ask him to accompany them to share this unique moment.
Chapeau! Spectacular! This is the humility of a leader. This is to serve the team, is able to share the success, is to value others. These details are what make a person great, are those who carve the authority of a leader. This is an example so powerful that marks the style of a team, which charts the course for those coming back. An example that leaves no one indifferent. Not even bad bosses, bad politicians or those who think themselves better than others. If only for a few seconds because someone has managed to put before a mirror to reflect their shame. Del Bosque Grande!
Del Bosque may lacks glamor, as some English sports executives blamed him in the past, but certainly its human size and quality as a leader is available to very few. Are we looking for references? Let Del Bosque!
Members of Futsal Team we won the first world championship, we are writing a book to commemorate its tenth anniversary (it was on 3 December 2000 in Guatemala).
Although the post longer than I usually post, I wanted to share with you one of the chapters I'm writing that book, about the lessons they learned the task force. Hope you like it.
this world championship not only gave us the opportunity to enroll in history, but also served as us test in a way hitherto unknown, at least in football room, directing groups.
Key was no fool. When we designed the preparation of the World, we realized that we had to work very, very hard. This required intensity can only be achieved with a group of players are very committed and enthusiastic about the mission, something that we did not advance, at least part of the group (we had the initial problems that occurred with the list short of players). Against this background, we chose to introduce constant elements of motivation in all tasks designed in practice. For example, if we had set as its objective the improvement of the shot at goal, they formed pairs of players competed against each other, forming qualifying to give a final winner. All data were recorded and then spent a few lists that were put into the recreation room intended for use by players who had provided at the hotel. There everyone could see who was the first competition shot on goal, but also assists in recovery, etc. groups also collected data on the parties and we compared some others, which helped us to set specific objectives for each training game, friendly or official in the previous game if we lost 15 balls, the next goal was to lose less than that amount and so on all the variables recorded: Recoveries ball, shot into the net, misconduct, etc. This approach shows promote maximum competition in all drills and daily motivation to tackle really tough sessions.
Another innovative aspect, although at concentrations outlined above, was to create a microclimate of privacy. Therefore, we call the organization's Championship given us by one floor of the hotel exclusively for the expedition, including a room (the studio) without furniture or bed to put tables for reading, card games, television and conversation. This fom ENTAM coexistence and the feeling of home in a place so impersonal as a hotel giant of 5 stars. Over there you could walk in shorts, barefoot, shouting, singing or doing what he really wanted to, within the civic norms and respect. A telling fact is that all the world had, by his own initiative, the bedroom doors open wide .
Another lesson we learned the technicians in this championship was to handle the communication. Until then, the preparation of the games was done with hours and endless data on rivals. Videos of matches played cuts, strategies, etc, etc. In short, ejecutábamos a technical manual unsure: cram Data-players with the excuse that nothing escaped us or to justify to others that work hard. science experience and showed us that the player only holds one-way video or explanation as much of 15 or 20 minutes, the rest of the time we look with your eyes but his mind is elsewhere , is even making fun of ugly shoes we carry. In this sense, the fact of having my team with former players of high competition and international (I include myself among them) helped us tremendously to understand boys. As pioneering experience, we implemented a way to make games much more participatory and fun. We watched a video prepared ahead of time of 15 minutes or less. From there we did a matrix on a board where we divided between strengths and weaknesses. After the video, one by one all the players we had to say a virtue or a defect in the equipment they had seen in the video (our rival). I wrote down, and once the round, each player would start one where we had to give a solution of how to minimize the strength targeted or how to exploit the weakness observed. If anyone said a lot, instead of ridicule, we used the Socratic method, that is, asking him questions their responses to realized the mistake and think the right conclusion. With this method not only foster care (everyone knew he had to participate, so pay attention to the video and explanations), but create a climate of participation where everyone, absolutely everyone (young and old) felt important. In addition, over the years, created a huge tactical culture.
say the forces you need to probe previously unexplored paths, and this was the case that we came up with the emotional intelligence . Not long before he had read the book by Daniel Goleman which dealt with this type of intelligence, but I never thought we were going to do a PhD on this subject in Guatemala. Since self-knowledge, self-motivation, self-control (attempts to throw us off balance were constant, ignominious emotionally) through a skill that helped us a lot to grease the coexistence of the group: empathy. The stories told by the players on beer and fast food restaurant are true, but we talked in private and put us in the skin of the players: the food in the hotel was not the best for an athlete, trained very hard and also feel deceived so venial a "leaders" will produce a feeling of pleasure and complicity that helps unite the groups. In this case, we played dumb by law. Furthermore, this experience, we learned to carry food and cook your country can become the best signing of the machine as well and we did from Guatemala.
Another issue we found was the importance of the technical team responsible remain united or monolithic so, because in these environments is very easy to fall into the temptation of giving in to a player or someone from the outside environment without realizing that runs contrary to the guidelines issued by the Directorate. What in first instance is a crack, is then converted into crack and eventually broke up altogether. I can assure you that in my professional life I have met some special character in these conflicts and has made a real blight in many groups with the sole intention of achieving its objective, usually spurious .
Finally, there was a skill we play intuitively and we were not aware until now, when new discoveries in neuroscience have revealed the relationship between thought-emotion-action. This theory has to say in a very simplistic (I apologize to the scientists) that every thought (Mental event) triggers a physiological reaction (emotion) that takes you to perform an action. Example: You hear a noise in the dark and think it's a thief on that information to the brain, the body secretes a substance (adrenaline and cortisol) that make you go out running or froze. Well, if you want to change behavior, necessarily must change the thoughts, which are often influenced by genetics, education, experiences, values \u200b\u200band beliefs. We at that time were not aware of this, but the intuition to take 20 years stuck in this human teams let us know what was good or bad for the group. Thus, knowing that some players were emotionally impacted and intoxicated on the causes of a decision that we exclusively sporting grounds, behaviors and attitudes were affected by that thought. With this premise, our work was to demonstrate, through example, what is wrong with this way of thinking and, with respect to each opinion, go modifying it little by little. After changing the thought, emotion, anger and apathy could turn into sympathy and complicity and then sank action: to train and live in a cold and politically correct we do it with passion and commitment. In addition, the overall dynamics finally started gobbling up the last remaining individual reservations. I still have fresh in my memory the juicy conversations with some players at the championship celebration party, which reassured us that something (not yet define knew) had done very well.
For pure sports planning and hard, both Jose A. Rincon Diaz (The teacher) and I understand that is so necessary and boring as all planning, since paper is patient and really hard to solve the problems that appear when you change the arrows on the chart or tasks designed by human beings must execute .
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Lima is affected. There are few who know the truth about who will be the future mayor of the "Lima once so dear and so Mrs." as say Chabuca. Social Force supporters who shouted ad nauseam "no to fraud" on the door of the Hotel Bolivar, should be as familiar with the fear and the weakness of the scythe. On the other hand, amateurs-amateur as it would be a table tennis or Telenovelas, must feel some discomfort at not knowing the exact results of last Sunday's election. On one hand I spoke to supporters in Social Forces because talking supporters in a game with less than a year unreflective political presence would mention, and the PPC-continually losing party, has shown that Christian social teaching is a set of "stale ideas" at least in this country, because when not create a belief in their voters, of course, one can not speak of supporters. I sincerely believe that the only ideological defense of the party are: Alan García, Lourdes Flores Nano, Tongo, Luis Bedoya Reyes, Rainer Torres, and the tall guy from my university who made propaganda for the PPC-A that I sent many indirect in-cheek. Sincerely policy makes us cave dwellers, many times; I mean I respect this guy and I feel brave their work, but represents the grams and not of thoughts kilos.
The votes collected by the PPC-A stroke caused by media and fear of change, do not represent much they win or not win the province of Lima, since in all these months of my silent Social Democratic activism did not cross talk, or heard of someone who can refute my arguments of why to vote for the "FS" are simply not met, assuming the absence of being one, I conclude that those votes represent only democracy that has taught us the IMF, World Bank The Security Council is that the right ONU.Y said that there neither right nor left, and those who think a little bit know that there is no "gray matter" to the right side. César Hildebrant mentioned that he met a giant Illustrated right called Gabriel Cisneros, English journalist and politician; point please.
's gross circumstantial evidence that makes us think about a possible electoral fraud. Listen to Alan Garcia said "we do not heed what the exit polls say" before he knows it. Coincidentally, Lourdes Flores Nano says the same thing in the same circumstances. Left to César Vega Vega election of chairmen for the Special Electoral Jury, knowing that this is investigated by OCMA APRA for alleged involvement, according to Jaime Bayly yesterday claun left his nose and stilts to resume his role as a journalist. The recalcitrant and greedy Luis Castañeda to support PPC-A break every principle of neutrality. The celebration of Lourdes Flores with all its partners and with the puppet, the harlequin, the Badulaque the smelly of Tongo, who represent the sector far less supported and pop progressive serrano, serrano with soul represents the snake, the wild , which will sell for three suns and who purchases a little pleasure. Dr. Lourdes Flores and PPC, believe that we are all fools, think we sucked the finger and give reasons to celebrate a colorful defeat Or are celebrating their three-point victory in what they say is their "internal count?
Susana Villaran, which often shows his lack of speech and the gift of political carnage, accompanied by her unsuspecting party began to celebrate a win right to believe that the immaculate respect the decision of the people. Social Force has once again proven to be a party with good intentions, but lacks a lot of bread by slicing. Afford to celebrate in a remake of balconazo Sunday October 3, this time in your local campaign, not to maintain sanity and technique to defend their votes against an obvious manipulation by ONPE and the JEE is as reprehensible as the conclusion of the PPC-A. Lourdes had to approach 0.8% to Susan for the center-left to realize that not only have other reasons to lose.
ONPE has every right to be delayed. The problem is not slow to solve problems Magdalena Chu. What has been shown so far is an electoral system that is unable to contests as hotly contested, an inefficient system for a country that is closest democratic topics. What is a lack of respect for all citizens is the web that is woven on this annoying delay. Lourdes has been voted, by Villa or the "crazy helicopter; knowing the power to handle unclean things right, and left the courage to face such power, no one would accept that the picture frame victorious in this war, his victory outside the bounds of the popular will, that itself would be a grave error against progress. Lima
affected. It breathes air in its population of anarchy. Be careful what you do. Violence only seeks reasons for acting, and errors against democracy is a time bomb.
AdP Correspondents: The Eternal Youth by Alfonso Loaiza
Miguel Angel Jimenez is living a dream, still playing fable and has regained the Ryder Cup for Europe . His victories with 46 years are proof positive that your body inhabits the soul of a young gene winner. The Andalusian golfer has become the only player who has achieved three victories this season in the European circuit . The Omega European Masters, the Open de France Alstom and the Dubai Desert Classic Omega have been triumphs. Dubai, France and Switzerland the conquered lands individually. And the Ryder Cup with Europe combined was the final culmination of a spectacular season.
Andalusian For this season is more special than lived by far. And no wonder. Many gave up for dead, but the old rockers never die . The pure golfer is giving all his holy grave diggers proving every day that the youth is not a time of life but a state of mind . He has not lost his habit since childhood. It is a golfer with revolutionary ideas that are out of the pack. Not a member of the herd of the politically correct the elite world of golf . His philosophy of life has not changed one iota. In an interview with the newspaper AS has now admitted that only dreams of being in the stall eating pescaito with his mother. Youth is not a substance inherent in the years, acquired and inserted into the veins with blood fighting without taking into account the age . Are finite, but the youth there are no limits or boundaries. It is a state of mind and stay up to us. Miguel Angel Jiménez is the same throughout life, the man who does not have to hide when smoking a cigar. An example of youth that have a lot to see its origins. Since it began 15 years working as a caddy (a person who carries clubs) and used to play golf on the sly when no one in the field . That is the spirit that has led to success. The become strong to face the challenges. The time to conjugate verbs the dream and fight to keep their hopes dwindle . That of eternal youth. The Andalusian does not count the days, make the days count . The Malaga has shown strongly to the younger years of life must be filled and not life years. This Ryder is already a incunabula of our national sport. A twentysomething enjoy!
