Andries Jonker and Laurent Bonadei challenge football management conventions, demonstrating that age does not determine coaching success. Jonker's Netherlands faces elimination, while Bonadei's France thrives in competition. Bonadei, previously an assistant, aims to rejuvenate France after years of underachievement, omitting established players for fresh talent. Despite mixed outcomes, his revolutionary approach focuses on adapting to the needs of the team rather than adhering to unwritten rules of management which prioritize youth and continuity.
Bonadei's laid-back manner may be thoroughly redolent of a man with roots in the relaxed, Mediterranean ambience of the Cote d'Azur, but he is proving a revolutionary, albeit of the quiet, distinctly velvet, variety.
I spent many, many years preparing to become a No 1, he says as a man determined to end France's cycle of underachievement his way.
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