Football Great Zinedine Zidane Going Through Rough Patch As Manager Of Real Madrid (Do Legends Make The Best Coaches)

Zinedine Zidane

Legendary French football player, Zinedine Zidane, is having a rough time as manager (coach) of the accomplished Real Madrid F.C. squad in Spain. The team’s top footballer is Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the world‘s leading goal scorers. Real Madrid has won La Liga in the past, but they are struggling this season. Real Madrid recently lost to rival Atletico Madrid. FC Barcelona have been dominating with the attacking trio of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis “The Teeth” Suarez (Ok, his nickname is not the teeth, but Suarez is famous for using his LOL). 

I would sometimes wonder why legendary football players have difficulty coaching teams. Then, there's the theory in reference to the topic that a footballer who is a legend due to his exemplary skill, becomes frustrated when athletes don't grasp the game and what is being taught, on the same level and manner as the top footballer turned manager. 

By right, men like Pele and Bobby Charlton, should be among the best managers in the world. However, it has not happened. No one questions their skill, as they are the best, but truthfully, who has replicated the aforementioned athletes' abilities in younger players. That's because other factors come into play. Some athletes have better physical coordination (eye/foot as opposed to hand/eye in other sports) and control than others. Some athletes are naturally faster with better aim than others. This is why practice is essential in a bid to correct any deficiencies, in a bid to make your athletes the best they can be.

Pele, who is often hailed as the best ever, humorously stated in the Mirror newspaper of Manchester United and current coach Louis Van Gaal, "I told him, you know he is a very strong guy and they (Manchester United) should have courage because I am never going to be coach. I don't want to suffer." It's difficult being a manager, because when the team does not win, you will be blamed. 

It's easy to take negative newspaper articles and chants at matches personally, when football fans yell for the firing of their favorite team's manager. However, that's when you have to redouble your efforts to bring out the best in the squad and make any necessary changes. Do not become overwhelmed, discouraged or dispirited. Look at it this way, erase the points deficit by digging your way out of that hole, one match at a time. Take it one match at a time.

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Piers Morgan

This is a follow up to the Judiciary Report's series of phone hacking articles, regarding a story I broke first in 2005, via a formal, written police complaint to the Metropolitan Police in London, England. Since the time of the police complaint I filed, 100 people have been arrested in connection with the scandal. People are still being investigated by the police regarding the case.

CNN has announced they are cancelling the Piers Morgan Live program, after 3-years on the air. When Morgan was announced as the replacement for Larry King, whose show was on the air for 25-years, the Judiciary Report stated it wouldn't work and Morgan is not the right replacement. 4-years on, time has proven the Judiciary Report correct, as his ratings are abysmal.

 

Rupert Murdoch

However, Morgan has also been embroiled in the phone hacking scandal, which I broke first. Morgan was interviewed by police this month regarding claims he actively phone hacked people, illegally mining their phone calls and messages for items to print in the newspapers as scoops, when he was working for Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News Of The World and at the Daily Mirror. Tapes indicate Morgan did indeed break the law, as he was heard owning up to the misconduct that he is now backpedaling from, claiming complete ignorance (I know you did it).

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Report: CNN's Piers Morgan Live Will End This Spring

Saturday, February 22, 2014 - Piers Morgan and CNN President Jeff Zucker have come to a mutual agreement to end Morgan's show, Piers Morgan Live, as early as next month, according to the New York Times. "It's been a painful period and lately we have taken a bath in the ratings," Morgan told the Times, possibly referencing a recent dust-up in which he clashed with Laverne Cox and Janet Mock during an interview about transgender issues...

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Chris Brown Says Rihanna Has Forgiven Him For Beating Her But The Public Has Not

Rihanna and Chris Brown

R&B singer and felon, Chris Brown, did an interview with the Mirror newspaper in the UK, where he spoke of the 2009 domestic violence incident between himself and girlfriend, music model, Rihanna. Brown is still on probation over the case and faces a violation hearing regarding it.

This week, Brown stated of the fight, "It was the deepest regret of my life, the biggest mistake...Sometimes you row, you fight, with the one you love and things get said, stuff spirals. But she loves me -- what can I say? I’m forgiven ... but, yes, I worked hard for it...People attack me and criticise me, it happens all the time ... But they don’t know me, and they don’t know us. It doesn’t bother me any more ... Other people can judge us but they don’t know anything."

Lady Gaga Becoming Lady Crazy

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga's mental breakdown is again beginning to resemble that of pop tart, Britney Spears, more and more everyday. The Mirror (UK) spent a day with Lady Gaga and documented her conduct.

Screaming, tantrums, tearful outbursts and switching clothes with random strangers, in the same manner fellow Kabbalah member Britney Spears behaved before she was committed to a psych ward, is very telling.

Lady GaGa: We spend 24hrs with star and witness screaming tantrums, switching identities and sleepless nights

27/02/2010 - Dressed demurely in a long black raincoat and enormous shades, Lady GaGa quietly beckoned the waitress to her side.

The similarities between the two women were striking. Both were petite with tousled peroxide hair and crimson red lips. And for GaGa, it was an opportunity for mischief too great to resist.

“Let’s swap clothes,” she whispered into the waitress’s ear. “I need those paps off my back.”

Outside the smart Bar and Grill restaurant in the heart of Liverpool, rain-sodden paparazzi had gathered to snap the songstress who had so far evaded them.

To the bemusement of her male companion, Lady GaGa leapt from the table, led the waitress by the hand to the kitchen and ordered her to strip and exchange clothes.

Within minutes, the impromptu decoy was scurrying out of the side entrance chased by a stampede of camera-men, while Lady Gaga and her bodyguards slipped unnoticed through a fire escape and into a waiting car.

Breathless and giggling, she collapsed in the back of the blacked-out Merc and high-fived her companion.

Welcome to the mad, bad court of Lady GaGa, the biggest and most flamboyant pop star on the planet...

Then GaGa – whose 2008 debut album The Fame has netted her a cool £15million – was led up to her £600-a-night penthouse suite where she gathered her entourage for one of her “pep-talks”...

But, instead of hitting the sack, she spent several hours perfecting dance routines on the blustery terrace while continuing to chain-smoke...

GaGa spent the following day preparing for the concert where she had a last-minute change of mind about the set design. Her boyfriend – who she affectionately calls DaDa – repeatedly told her that “everything would be OK” as she burst into tears.

The pair – who have been dating on and off for 12 months – then went to the venue where stage crew were forced to order in new sets just hours before the start.

One crew member said: “She’s mad and completely neurotic. She gets an idea in her head and changes things, saying, ‘It won’t work any other way.’ We started off with 13 trucks of stage equipment and in the end we needed 16.”

During the show itself, her internet entrepreneur father Joseph, 53, watched wide-eyed as his daughter simulated sex with an imaginary penis. She also changed outfits a staggering 15 times...

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