What if these 10 star players managed their own teams?
Roles. Every person on this planet has a specific role. Even someone who sits on the street doing absolutely nothing is actually doing her/his role—sitting and doing nothing is her/his role.Shakespeare once said that the world is like a giant theatre where each person acts according to his part. I would further add that life is a script written and directed by the Almighty with us as actors.In the football fraternity, the guys within the lines on the pitch play the roles of footballers and the guys shouting from the touchline are the managers. The players play according to how their manager wants, or at least try to.Sometimes, the manager, it is said, makes great players while some people opine the entire opposite thing. However, both play a significant role in a team’s fortunes as a team that doesn’t have an intelligent manager and a good set of players are likely to not stamp their name in the pages of the history.Not all great players, though, make great managers and not all legendary managers were world beaters as players. In fact, if one looks around, she/he can easily see that the managers who were average as players are indeed the best tacticians in the game.However, what if some of the greatest stars in the world of football became the manager of the teams they are playing for? Here, we try to take a look, in a light-hearted manner, of what indeed could happen…
#1 Cristiano Ronaldo managing Real Madrid
The Portuguese star has opined time and again that he doesn’t see himself wearing a suit and barking instructions from the touchline. However, we will let our imaginations run wild and assume he does take over the reins at the Santiago Bernabeu.
The first rule under him would be that each player must be posh and use a bottle of hair gel every day. They must also never have facial hair and a failure to abide by these rules would lead to punishments like changing Cristiano’s Jr. diapers.
Each player must spend a lot of time in the gym to build their thigh muscles. They must have thighs as broad as an oak tree. No player would be allowed to take penalties even in training. During any game, if Real Madrid win a penalty, then he will quickly sub himself in and take the penalty before subbing himself out again.
Finally, under his tutelage, no player would be allowed to consume alcohol and every one of them will have to put a lot of effort in training—especially the forwards—in order to be selected in the starting XI.