モウリーニョの哲学

He was asked today why his team have struggled for consistency so far this season.

‘It’s difficult to answer. The players know [they have]. When you make a big mistake you know it and you feel it. Here we speak openly. We criticise people without any kind of problems. There are no prima donnas crying. Everybody wants to do well. Everybody accepts the criticism. Everybody knows their job and knows when they let the team down.

‘Maicon should have been surrounded by three players for the second goal against Porto,’ he continued. ‘They failed. They let the team down. They know it, and we speak about it because we try not to make mistakes. You know what I call that? Coaching.

‘If [a mistake] happens in the first half we speak about it at half-time, if it happens in the second half we speak about it the next day. We never speak after the game. I go to the press, they go to the shower. After the match I never have a bad reaction. It’s time to calm down and go home.’

Understandably Mourinho did not want to say his team for tomorrow’s game, but what he could do was explain the thinking behind the changes he has been making to his starting XI in recent weeks.

‘We always try to do a little bit of rotation, which is important physically and mentally for the group, but there is also a part of the rotation that is because of the instability of the performances.

‘If you play fantastically well for five matches, you get some stability in the team, you keep the core and you don’t change much. That’s normal. When there is some instability you try to find why the performance was better here and not so good here; why the player who made this mistake didn’t make another one. It’s normal.

‘What we do is work when we can. We played Tuesday. Wednesday was more about recovering, but yesterday and today we worked, we analysed, we tried to make the best decisions. It’s normal to try and find solutions to win the next game.’

引用：http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2015/10/newsflash.html?extcmp=SOCIA_TW_ENG_NEWS_PREMATCH

今シーズン2015/2016、低迷しているチェルシー。

この状況についてモウリーニョ監督がインタビューに答えている。

その中に彼のコーチング哲学が垣間見えた。

「彼らはミスを犯し、チームを落胆させてしまった。このミスについて彼らは理解している。けれども、私はそのミスについて話す。何故なら私たちはミスを犯さないようにしようとするからだ。あなたはこれを何と言うか知っていますか？コーチングだ。

もし、ミスが前半に起きたとしたら、私たちはハーフタイムにそのミスについて話す。

もし、ミスが後半に起きたとしたら、私たちはそれを決して試合の後には話さない。

私は記者会見に行き、選手たちはシャワーを浴びる。

私は試合後に、一切、悪いリアクションをしたことはない。そこでは穏やかに時間を過ごし、家に帰る。」

興味深いのは試合中にミスが起きたときにいつその話をするのかということだ。

ヨーロッパでは試合後に試合について監督はあまり話さないと聞く。

なぜか？

試合後に話したところで選手の頭の中に残らないということであろう。

選手は勝っても負けても、肉体的、精神的に披露困憊の状態である。

次の日にしっかりとお互い整理したほうがはるかに効率が良いということであろう。