Solid Defense Becomes Key to the New Magic of Ranieri in Nantes

Claudio Ranieri targeted Fiorentina and Swansea City after being sacked from Leicester City on 23 February. But in the end he preferred Nantes from Ligue 1 France to be his new port in June. When this article was written, Nantes came in fourth and unbeaten in six games (losing in two inaugural matches).

Ranieri came there with a two-season contract replacing Sergio Conceicao who stepped down for a proposal by FC Porto. Initially, his arrival was rejected by the French Football Federation (FFF) because Ranieri's age would then exceed the minimum rules applied. FFF parties prohibit teams trained by coaches over the age of 65 years. But at that time Ranieri got away on a special recommendation because his registration was still at the age of 65 years. While his age will be more than 65 years in October 2017.

For Ranieri, to Nantes does not mean a setback in his career. In fact he is still in demand by many English clubs after being fired Leicester City, a season after bringing the Premier League champions. With all the considerations, this former Chelsea coach also chose a career outside the UK.

"For me it is important to have a job I have got offers from various English clubs but I chose to come to France I think after Leicester it is best to take a break from the Premier League and change the country The big clubs do not change their coaches, "Ranieri added as quoted from the Mirror.

Nantes insisted on registering Ranieri as he hoped he could bring a miracle just like he did in Leicester first, by presenting the English Premier League title 2015/2016. Moreover, Ranieri has experience in Ligue 1 because ever gush AS Monaco from 2012 to 2014.

Nevertheless, Waldemar Kita as the owner of Nantes is not too set high target for Ranieri. Ranieri was only given a target to bring Nantes to the Europa League. "He [Ranieri] did not ask for any guarantees and I will not give him any demands.We finished last season well and he has to continue that style.It would be great if qualifying for Europa League qualification," Waldemar said as quoted from The Sports Men .

Nantes did finish well last season for Conceicao's success. Former Portugal national team penggawa successful revolution in Nantes since coming in December 2016 when the team was down. When he joined, Nantes was ranked second bottom of the Ligue 1 2016/2017 standings at the time.

Conceicao is able to make his teams more aggressive and attacking. In the end he took Nantes to seventh last Ligue 1 standings last season. Conceicao also managed to hone players such as Amin Harit, Diego Carlos, Emiliano Sala, Valentin Rongier and other players who in fact are not top players.

Just like Ranieri at Leicester, Conceicao was a basic 4-4-2 formation. Perhaps this is what makes Waldemar do not hesitate to appoint the Italian coach. Aura champion Ranieri will also give the same fire as in Leicester to his players in Nantes.

That is, Ranieri is expected to maintain the revival of Nantes after Conceicao's impressive results. Moreover, Nantes is not a small teams. They are the third most successful teams in France after Saint-Etienne and Olympique Marseille for the eighth Ligue 1 title last achieved in the 2000/2001 season.

It's just his arrival should be left three Nantes mainstay players last season, namely Harit, Guillaume Gillet and Remy Riou. Even so, Ranieri was not too worried. "I can not change it now, I'm like Frank Sinatra, I always do it in my ways," he said as quoted by The Guardian.

But the departure of important players is reasonable because Nantes has limited funding sources in recent seasons. Not with Paris Saint-German (PSG), Monaco or Olympique Marseille, Nantes shopping funds are still inferior to Bordeaux, Saint-Etienne and Rennes.

Ranieri did not start the season well because it was defeated twice in a row by OSC Lille and Marseille. But the defeat explains the need in the Nantes squad at the time. Then after that, Andrei Girotto, Kalifa Coulibaly and Yassine El Ghanassy were brought ahead of last summer's transfer window deadline. Previously, Nantes just bring Ciprian Tatarusanu and Nicola Pallois.

Then Ranieri was able to give his first win in the third week of Ligue 1 match when he beat host Troyes. Since then Ranieri has brought Nantes unbeaten for six straight matches.

The result of five wins and one draw that managed to bring Nantes to fourth place standings with Raihan 16 points from eight matches. The points are just six points behind PSG as the championship standings while Ligue 1,

"I ask for the supporters to be patient, if you play well and you lose one or two times, then you play the wrong way so the most important thing is to win," Ranieri said.

Solid Defense Claudio Ranieri Locks With Nantes

Actually there is nothing spectacular about the Nantes game when attacking. Three of their victory just got the majority with the score 1-0. It is their defense that has been a disaster for their opponents. Ranieri managed to make Nantes defense so solid.

The proof, Nantes only conceded once from the last six games. Olympique Lyonnais, who slaughtered Nantes 6-0 in last season to put Rene Girard out of the way, was held to a 0-0 draw. Ranieri's focus with Nantes is to keep his goal from conceding rather than scoring goals.

Ranieri is aware that Nantes currently has no goal hunger striker like Jamie Vardy while still gushing Leicester. Last season, Leicester's top scorer was Sala with 12 goals. "The goal is to have one of the five best defense in France," said Ranieri who came from Italy.

Jean Petit, who had been his assistant coach when in Monaco gave leaks about Ranieri's tactics. "The team must have a very tight block, everyone has to work, defend and attack Every player knows what to expect from him Physically, his team is at the top level.See the number of Leicester victories that occurred at the end of the game," said Petit.

Currently Ranieri does not have Vardy or Riyad Mahrez to show his magic as he did with Leicester. Nevertheless, Ranieri managed to create a strong defensive unit with Nantes. If you look at his notes so far, Nantes's future is in the right hands and heading in the right direction.

Alex Ferguson - Last Manager of the Working Class

The role of workers in the football history of English football indeed can not be eliminated. � Not just a matter of support base, but also about the coach. The best managers ever present on British soil are those with a working class background, like Bill Shankly, Jock Stein, Brian Clough, or Matt Busby.

The trainers are said to have gained an honest ethos and hard work from their families and neighborhoods. The desire to escape poverty and hardship also teaches them to help each other and the community.

However, with an increasingly abundant money, it is difficult to find traces of the working class in the current era of the Premier League. The players with a salary that skyrocketed as if estranged from supporters who must spend money not to see his favorite team play. Similarly, the trainers. It is rare for coaches to grow and gain the values of the mining or port worker environment.

It could be said that the last coach with a working-class background was Alex Ferguson.�

"My father is a" leftist "and so are most of the people I come from, I grew up from a working-class area in the city of Glasgow, and I am very aware of the meaning of the community and how families and communities help each other. in the shipyard and have been involved in the union, I also grew up with the belief that Labor is a working-class party, and up until now I still believe it, "Fergie said in an interview with political magazine New Statesman.�

Not just adhering to the values of the working class, Fergie also did not hesitate to politics.�Ia even good friends with Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications and Strategy Tony Blair, former British prime minister of the Labor Party.ï¿ ½At the time when the Labor Party was having trouble and being attacked by various parties, Fergie would call his friend and give support. The coach who gave his chair to David Moyes was also not reluctant to praise Tony Blair's speech in the British media.

There is one other thing that also gives Fergie strong influence on his political choice, his mother.

"My mother died in November 1986 (the era of the Conservative Party-red), or some time after I handled Manchester United She was hospitalized at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, but the place was really bleak, unkempt, intended for people who do not have self-esteem.It has been a lifetime for me to see how the Labor Party works to provide health insurance for ordinary people, while the Conservatives are concerned only with high-ranking officials.The health insurance system is much better when handled by the Party Labor, "he added.

Because of his mother's condition, too, Ferguson is often said to hate Margaret Thatcher, the conservative prime minister who led Britain in the period 1979-1990.

In leading the team, Fergie himself often apply the ethics of socialism that is indeed close to the working class. This is primarily to help its players to adapt to money and fame. For him, a manager's job is to keep his players on the ground.

Ferguson also explained, "I repeatedly told my players that what made them a footballer was hard work �etos�, and they should never lose it.I told them that if they went home to meet their mothers, their mothers should meet the same people as before, otherwise their mothers will be disappointed. "

Given his words it is no wonder if the relationship and Ferguson and one of his favorite players, David Beckham, deteriorate. In his biography, the coach who earned two Champions League titles with United also explained, "David is the only player I choose to be famous for." He made his popularity as his mission.

Ferguson is famous for the principle that there should be no players bigger than his own team.

"The most important thing is the team, I can lead and give direction, but the team should stick together.This means making them grow together, and make them stay in the same room and get the best from each other," said Alex Ferguson .

Very left, is not it?

Morrissey, Liverpool, and Their Revenge on Margaret Thatcher

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Did you know that "Margaret on the Guillotine" owned by Moz (Morrissey) ever sung also by The Traveling Kopites? The song is one of twelve numbers in Viva Hate's debut album released by HMV Records on March 14, 1988. While The Traveling Kopites is a pseudonym for Liverpool supporters on away games.

What kind of controversy lies behind the song-which left Moz scooped Scotland Yard and interrogated by the Special Branch intelligence agency for alleged treason? For what reasons did Liverpool fans sing the song's chorus during an away game against Reading at Madejski Stadium-which coincided with the twenty-four-year anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy?

New Statesman film critic Ryan Gilbey says the Mozilla biopic titled "England is Mine" failed miserably in describing Moz. For him, the title of biopic that even abort young Mozs figure with The Smiths who in his own way criticize the political policy in his country. Regardless of the fatal blunder on Mozop's title, Viva Hate's album continues the gameplay of Meat is Murder and The Queen is Dead of The Smiths later on.

Rolling Stone magazine called Viva Hate's album "a tight, fairly disciplined affair". While Pitchfork calls it "one of Morrissey's most interesting records, and certainly his riskiest". For myself, the album Viva Hate is an album that must be heard before entering the grave. Who would have thought the release of Viva Hate's album coincided with the birthday of Sasha Gray and the 55th anniversary of Persib Bandung?

Although post-release of Viva Hate Moz was captured by Scotland Yard and interrogated by Special Branch investigators for alleged treason, Moz still escaped the allegation. The lack of concrete evidence demonstrating the attempts of treason that made Moz could walk away from the investigation. But only after that event, Moz even more show the tendency of his hatred on Thatcher. It sticks through his interview with Loaded Magazine and his open letter published in The Daily Beast.

In the lyrics of "Margaret on the Guillotine", Moz alludes to the figure (who Thatcher presumes) as someone who has a 'wonderful dream'. Then in his interview session with Loaded Magazine, Moz called Thatcher as 'a terror without an atom of humanity'. Not only that, Moz also further expose the figure of Thatcher in his view in open letter in The Daily Beast.

"Thatcher destroys the manufacturing industry of Britain, he hates miners, he hates artists, he hates Irish Freedom Fighters and wants them to die, he hates poor Britons and does nothing to help them, he has no conscience and friendliness, the cabinet of his formation also wanted to kick him from the reins of leadership, "said Moz.

Even in the open letter, Moz labeled Thatcher as 'Barbaric'. He concluded it was because Thatcher decided to reclaim the Falklands from the Argentine military occupation. "Thatcher will only be remembered by sentimentalists who do not feel the misery under his leadership, but the majority of British workers have forgotten him, and the citizens of Argentina will celebrate his death," Moz said in his opening letter.

That is the reason why Moz hated Thatcher ever since The Smiths took part. Until he presented "Margaret on the Guillotine" to Thatcher. He so enjoys repetitive babakan on the song; "When will you die? when will you die? when will you die? "

In addition to Moz, there are also other parties who hate Thatcher: Liverpool supporters. Why did the supporters of Liverpool, as well as Moz, hate and hate Margaret Thatcher so much?

Liverpool supporters and their hatred of Thatcher

Hatred of Liverpool supporters at Thatcher started from the Tragedy of Heysel on May 29, 1985 ago. After that incident, hooliganism in England reached the point of culmination. Thatcher, who was then serving as prime minister, was handling it with an iron fist.

Thatcher implements a policy that requires every club's supporters to have some sort of supporter's identity card if they want to enter the stadium. Because of Thatcher's policy, torn off the potential of the club to attract new audiences to come to the stadium.

Not only on football supporters Thatcher practicing his iron hands. See how his policy overcomes a trade union demonstration in South Yorkshire led by Arthur Scargill. Scargill opposed Thatcher's decision to shut down uneconomical coal mines. The confrontation between the trade union and the Thatcher government was known as the "Battle of Orgreave".

At that time Scargill thought Thatcher would give up so power outages due to the supply of broken coal.But it turns out Thatcher is getting ready to stock up with coal. So in a strong match that lasted for one year, the big strike ended without any concession from the government. Since then the forces of the unions have never been able to return as they were-which in the previous decade successfully toppled Heath as prime minister.

Top hatred of Liverpool supporters at Thatcher was the occurrence of the Hillsborough Tragedy on April 15, 1989. At Hillsborough Stadium owned by Sheffield Wednesday at that time, dihelat FA Cup semi-final party between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Due to the poor stadium crowd control, 96 Liverpool supporters in the Lepping Lane stand were crushed.

Over the next 20 years, it finally revealed the truth that there was a deliberate closing of the facts. Apparently there is a factor of negligence by the South Yorkshire police who served at the time. However, in the final post-event report, the name of the South Yorkshire police unit remains clean. Thatcher remained adamant that the main cause of the incident was Liverpool's own act.

Cash, it shows that Thatcher had no conscience in front of the 96 tragedy victims of the Hillsborough family. One theory which concludes why Thatcher insisted on maintaining his argument was that he owed services to South Yorkshire police. Especially when the unit of police unity overcame the protests and demonstrations of miners at the time of "Battle of Orgreave".

The main cause of British football's public anger at Thatcher was none other than the conclusion of Thatcher's own governmental investigation. They concluded that the Hillsborough Tragedy occurred because of the supporters of Liverpool fans who are drunk and do mischief.

In the stands Anfield stadium when Liverpool cage match always seen banners reading "Expose the lies before Thatcher dies". Although the truth was revealed before Thatcher died, he was too old to clarify the subject of the tragedy.

On 13 April 2013, Premier League match between Reading against Liverpool. As host, all elements of the Reading club at Madejski Stadium provide an honorary tribute to the 96 victims of the Hillsborough Tragedy. Not only a tribute game, the game was five days after the death of Thatcher.

"Ole, ole, Maggie`s dead, dead, dead" sounded echoed from the buses on the streets of the city of Reading, down to the Madejski Stadium. When supporters of Liverpool conga for 15 minutes while chant "We will all do a conga" cos Maggie is a gonner, "Reading supporters responded with chant" Always the victims "and" We pay your benefits ". Not only that, refrain song "Margaret on the Guilotine" owned Moz was not escaped shouted.

Total 96 seat Madejski Stadium vacated. As chairman of Reading, Sir John Madejski led a silent sessions for 96 victims of the Hillsborough Tragedy. The whole stadium was silent in 96 seconds. After a moment of silence for the victims of the Hillsborough Tragedy, Madejski Stadium rumbled again. But not only chant noise. "Noise" was present from the banners that flown Liverpool supporters in the stands.

The banner following Thatcher's death obituary was unfurled. Starting from the banner "You did not care when you lied," which reads "a stroke of good luck". There are also banners "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead ". The words were adapted from the title song of The Wizard of Oz which dominated Sunday's top 40 charts after Thatcher's death. Even banners that read "We`re gonna have a party" with the portrait of the aged Thatcher being chased by the angel of death, were also raised.

Although the game ended in a draw, but that day the number on the scoreboard is not too important for both clubs. If there was a minute of silence and a black armband in the hands of players, it was shown to 96 victims of the Hillsborough Tragedy, not to Thatcher.

Prince Siahaan, one of the local panditics, said, "You know what kind of a leader it is if Liverpool and Alex Ferguson, two entities that on a normal day will hate each other, bury the war ax for a moment when talking about Margaret Thatcher." Fergie was furious at the statement of a reporter who likened her to Thatcher. Before becoming a coach, Fergie's past was a shipyard worker. The professional sector is the most oppressed by the Thatcher government.

Even the eternal rivals of the world - hereafter Liverpool, Everton, will do the same with Fergie when talking about Thatcher. In the Merseyside derby the umpteenth edition, Everton supporters unfurled a banner that read "You took our milk, but you`ll never take our pride. Rot in hell, Maggie.

Luciano Spalletti and Roberto Mancini's Reborn Rebirth

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Luciano Spalletti and Roberto Mancini will meet again at the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday (19/3) early morning. Their encounter ignited the competition of Italian football domination from 2005 to 2008, while Spalletti was still coaching Roma and Mancini coached Inter. Initially, fierce competition began to feel since AC Milan and Juventus hit the scandal calciopoli.

The first chapter between them opened in the 2004/2005 Coppa Italia final and Mancini opened up the rivalry with a 3-0 aggregate win. The two met again in the next final and Inter again beat Roma 4-1 on aggregate. Mancini was getting excited for getting a Scudetto Serie-A 2005/2006 prize. Inter get it after the original Juventus topped the standings, punished by the reduction of points and dipaksan down to the position of bloated.

The calciopoli scandal made Mancini's rivalry with Spalletti increasingly fierce in the Italian league. Their competition is getting sharp when entering the 2006/2007 season. Spalletti and Mancini are fighting Scudetto, but Inter won it. While Roma should be satisfied as runner-up Serie A 2006/2007. In the Coppa Italia, Roma managed to reverse the situation by making Inter as runner-up. Roma won the 2006/2007 Coppa Italia for a 7-4 aggregate win, as well as Spalletti's first title for his club at the time.

The season was similar to the 2007/2008 season. Inter again became Scudetto and Roma finished second in Serie A standings 2007/2008. So is the Coppa Italia event that makes Roma as champion and Inter as runner-up. In the final, the system of home away and aggregate was abolished, so Roma immediately become champion after winning 2-1. The 2007/2008 season was Spousetti's last rivalry with Mancini. The reason, Inter eject Mancini and replace him with Jose Mourinho next season.

Competition between Roma era Spalletti with Inter era Mancini also recognized Douglas Maicon. The right-back right-back is part of the competition as an Inter player. Now, he is dejavu on Spalletti-Mancini's rivalry, but this time he is in the stronghold of Rome. "When I was Inter, Roma were always the toughest game of any season. (Luciano) Spalletti is always learning our game and exploiting our weaknesses," he said as quoted by Gazzetta World.