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To be honest, Villa are the perfect club for Martinez ...Originally posted by Tee View PostComment
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I know it's a bit old but:
31 May 2011 Last updated at 15:46 GMT
Brendan Rodgers: Getting to the top the hard way
By Conor Spackman BBC News
Brendan Rodgers Rodgers has attributed his team's succcess to a work ethic inspired by his father
If there is an easy way to become the manager of a Premier League football club, then Brendan Rodgers has not taken it.
Forced to retire as a player at 20 because of a genetic knee condition, the Carnlough man turned to coaching potential professionals only a few years younger than himself.
By his own admission, it was a difficult and laborious path, a time when long hours away from home made leading an unfashionable team to the highest rung seem a long way off.
So when his Swansea team closed on victory at Wembley on Monday, Rodgers allowed himself a moment of reflection on how unlikely it had all once seemed.
Sacrifices
"At 4-2 and 30 odd seconds to go - and I've never, ever done it before - my mind sort of wandered to my journey as a coach," he said after the game.
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Brendan Rodgers factfile
He was raised in Carnlough where he spent much of his youth playing Gaelic football and hurling
As a young coach, he travelled around Europe and now speaks Spanish and Italian
His son Anton plays for Chelsea's youth team and has represented the Republic of Ireland at U-17 level
His nickname is Buck
"From my early 20s, working with kids, driving many hours, missing time with my family, all that emotion - the whole journey flashes through your mind."
Those sacrifices began to be rewarded with a post as head of youth development at Reading, the club where he had played his last game.
If that appointment with the Royals was a boost, then the subsequent arrival of a certain Portuguese manager at Chelsea was a rocket in the right direction.
Jose Mourinho was looking around for a new head of Chelsea's academy and reportedly head-hunted the Northern Irishman who had a growing reputation in youth football circles.
Born exactly 10 years to the day before Rodgers, Mourinho saw other characteristics which mirrored his own and gradually promoted the former Ballymena United man through the club.
Ambitious
"I like everything in him," Mourinho said. "He is ambitious and does not see football very differently from myself. He is open, likes to learn and likes to communicate."
Unfortunately for Rodgers, the beginning of his managerial career also had something in common with the self-proclaimed Special One, who had once left Benfica after only nine games in charge.
Jose Mourinho Jose Mourinho liked what he saw when he worked with Rodgers at Chelsea
A spell at the helm at Reading, the club he had once played for and ironically the team beaten by Swansea in the Championship play-off, was ended with the sack after only a few months.
His latest success has come despite that setback and against a backdrop of difficult circumstances in his personal life.
He lost his mother, Christina, 12 months ago and his father Malachy travelled to Wembley on Sunday despite suffering from terminal cancer.
Rodgers has said he likes to think his team's performance reflects his father's work ethic.
"I used to help dad paint and decorate to earn pocket money. He installed in me the value of a hard day's work. He believes that leads to success in whatever you do. He's right," he said.
"He'd work from dawn to dusk to ensure his young family had everything. I think you can see his philosophies in my team."
His family's experiences with cancer have inspired Rodgers to eschew a lengthy summer break in favour of walking up Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for charity.
With Swansea already installed as one of the bookmakers' favourites to be relegated next season, he knows he has another mountain to climb when he returns.Comment
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Yeah, why not.Originally posted by danperkins View PostBrandt - Keita - Van Dijk - SessegnonComment
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It seems that I will have to post this link more often ...Originally posted by Fierce View PostBrendan Rodgers on his own
Brendan and Louis combined
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Phil McNulty@philmcnulty
Sacked by Reading in December 2009 now set to be Liverpool manager in May 2012. That's some rise for Brendan Rodgers.Bob Paisley - "This club has been my life. I'd go out and sweep the street and be proud to do it for Liverpool if they asked me to."Comment
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Please people, before you start ripping him what the MOTD3 clip of Rodgers. His philsophy on football is perfect for us and anti-english. Lets hope we can attract some quality players nowMy kebab comes with chilli sauceComment
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Would welcome any info on our new manager being posted in here.
Articles and the like.
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As official as it get's without being on the offal, it's on the BBC as confirmed, pasted the article in the news section: http://www.est1892.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=81112Originally posted by danperkins View PostComment
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Wouldn't Peter Withe be perfect for Villa, with Gordon Cowans as DoF?Originally posted by Macedonian_Red View PostComment
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Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
May the Lord bless this post.Comment
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