I almost choked on croissant this morning at the news that Roberto Carlos has become player-coach of his team, the Russian Anzhi, after the previous coach, Gadzhi Gadzhiev has been fired by the bad results they achieve. The Anzhi seventh in the Russian Premier League (16 teams), 11 points behind leaders Zenit St Petersburg, when there are only five games to play.
The Anzhi is a young club, founded in 1991 and promoted to the top division of Russian football in 2009. Since January 2011 the owner is billionaire Suleyman Kerimov, a guy who plans to invest a minimum of 200 million euros in the club, among other things to build a stadium of 40,000 spectators approved by UEFA. The Anzhi is not far from one club to use: the players and coaching staff make life and train in Moscow and only travel to Makhachkala, Dagestan's capital, home of the team, playing days at home (2,000 km displacement).
In addition to Roberto Carlos, who was his first signing of renown, Kerimov has also been scratching their pockets to attract players like Yuri Zhirkov, side by half the world sighing after Euro'08, former Betis Diego Tardelli and of course, Samuel Eto'o, converted by the grace of the Russian tycoon at the world's highest-paid player with a salary of 20 million euros per season.
The left side was Madrid and the selection Canarinha, three Champions League and World Cup to his credit, resurrect a post that had fallen into disuse in recent years, the player-coach. Roberto Carlos So follow the trail of other coaches, many more than you thought-one that topped his career combining his first steps as a coach for his last race as a player. Most of the best known and belong to English football highlights : Booby Robson (Vancouver Royals), John Giles (WBA), JB Toshack (Swansea), Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool), Hoddle, Gullit and Vialli (Chelsea) ... and I remember Romario also became player-coach of the Basque de Gama.
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