Who are the next generation of great coaches? Part 1: Europe
With some of Europe's established managers entering the final stages of their glittering careers, who will take charge of the continent's biggest clubs?
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00:00There are some great football managers moving on to pastures new, leaving space for a new generation of coaches to move up the ranks.
00:08There are plenty of exciting talent stepping into the spotlight, so let's take a look at who could be among the next great managers in world football.
00:21Hello and welcome to Football Now.
00:24It's fair to say that in terms of coaches and managers, football is going through somewhat of a transitional period.
00:30As some of the big names from the last decade begin to move on, over the next two episodes, Football Now will take a look at who could be the next Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp or Jose Mourinho.
00:42Let's start in Europe.
00:44We begin in Spain. Xabi Alonso and Mikel Arteta are two great coaches already tipped to take Pep Guardiola's crown as one of the world's greatest managers.
00:54Arteta, a previous assistant of Guardiola at Manchester City, is currently getting excellent results at Arsenal and battling his former mentor for titles at the top of the Premier League.
01:05Meanwhile, Alonso's first full season as manager of Bayer Leverkusen resulted in an invincible title win.
01:12So, has having solid backgrounds in the game given them a head start?
01:42I would actually hedge a bet on him to be more like the level of a Guardiola with time.
01:47I'm really excited to see what Xabi Alonso is capable of doing because I think we will see him at the bigger clubs without a doubt.
01:52We'll see him at Real Madrid one day, we'll probably see him at Liverpool one day and I imagine he'll win civil war at both places.
01:59Well, speaking of ex-players thriving in management, another disciple of Guardiola has recently become his rival in England.
02:07Italian-born Enzo Maresca used to work with Pep at City, just like Arteta, and has now become the main man at Chelsea.
02:15He took the job on the back of winning the championship with Leicester last season and getting them promoted back to the Premier League.
02:23So, what can we expect from another graduate of the Guardiola School of Coaching?
02:29I don't know what Chelsea fans can expect from Maresca because of the environment.
02:34Of course, we've said that he's eating managers, in fact, in the last years.
02:39But I'm very curious to see him and I hope he will do well.
02:45The fact that he doesn't have an Italian formation, I think that he's making Italian people undervalue him, maybe, underestimating him.
02:52But we will see, we will see.
02:54Maresca isn't the only promising name on our radar either.
02:57Ex-international defender Thiago Motta impressed massively at Bologna last season in Serie A.
03:03He has been appointed the new head coach of Juventus.
03:06Roberto Di Zerbi is another man who's shown a lot of promise.
03:10He left Brighton at the end of last season and will take charge of Ligue 1 team Marseille at the start of the new campaign.
03:17Over to Germany and 36-year-old Julian Nagelsmann has just experienced his first major tournament with the national team.
03:24But he's not the only German coach catching the eye.
03:27Brighton replaced Di Zerbi with 31-year-old coach Fabian Herlitzer,
03:31who won 20 of 34 matches with St. Pauli in Bundesliga 2 last season.
03:36Stuttgart manager Sebastian Hoeneß is also highly regarded inside Germany,
03:41after beating Bayern Munich to second place in the Bundesliga last season.
03:45Due to Leverkusen's title win, Hoeneß's achievement went somewhat unnoticed around Europe.
03:51But inside Germany, his stock couldn't be higher.
03:54Sebastian Hoeneß, he's still very young. I think he's in his early 40s.
03:57And a few years ago, he coached Bayern's second team to a title in the third German division.
04:03That's a huge, huge achievement.
04:05He had some big players in that team that he's since brought to Stuttgart.
04:09They followed him.
04:10And I think it's always a good sign of the quality of a manager when players kind of follow them from club to club.
04:16And this year they were second in the Bundesliga.
04:19No one's really noticed that abroad, but they were second in the Bundesliga ahead of Bayern Munich.
04:25And I think that has a ton to do with the coach because the squad is good,
04:29but they really have no business being that high up.
04:32So it has a lot to do with the manager.
04:34Well, another young manager who's earned respect in his own country is sporting Lisbon coach Ruben Amorim.
04:41Much like Alonso, he was linked with lots of top jobs around Europe this summer,
04:46but he chose to stay put in Portugal after delivering sporting second league title in 20 years.
04:53Now, with Jose Mourinho beginning to be overlooked for some of the top managerial vacancies,
04:58is Amorim set to be the next special coach to be produced in Portugal?
05:03I think Ruben Amorim is destined to manage in Premier League, to play every season to win it.
05:11I think he's in that level right now.
05:13He can do it because of his revolutionary philosophy and attractive football.
05:17He's still young. He has many years of coaching ahead.
05:20So I think this is a good decision for him to stay at Sporting one more year, at least.
05:25And I think what he can build at Sporting looks very great.
05:29So for me, he's one of the, if not the best Portuguese coach at the moment.
05:33One of them, Ruben Amorim is destined to beat things.
05:36With some famous managers approaching the twilight years of their careers,
05:41it's safe to say that the future of European football is in good hands.
05:45Let us know your thoughts using the hashtag football now upcoming coaches.
05:50And that's all we've got time for from our studio here in Doha.
05:53We'll be back next week to take a deep dive into some of the coaches around the world ready to revolutionize football.
06:00Bye for now.