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Nuno – I bought a copy of “Prophet or Traitor” from the UK and got through about 7/8ths of it. It’s merely ok, which is unfortunate because I think Jimmy Hogan is, as you say, a pioneer. My biggest problem with it is the author, on multiple occasions, uses Hogan’s story as a screed against English anti-intellectualism, I felt it got WAY too preachy, and unfortunately left a lot to be desired.
For those uniniated – Jimmy Hogan was a former English footballer who, as a child, put a lot of practice into his technique, and felt the technical side of the game was far too under-utilized in the English game. After a decent but injury plagued career, Hogan took to coaching, first in Britain, but eventually he made a move to Holland, then to Austria and Switzerland, demonstrating his technical abilities to his players. He was stuck in Europe during World War I and taken as a prisoner of war, but his ‘punishment’ was to coach MTK of Hungary, to five domestic titles and lighting the spark of a nation whose national team would eventually come 2nd in the 1954 World Cup and become the first side to beat England on home soil in 1953. He was first, and foremost, a teacher, and is revered on the continent, especially in Austria (where he worked with Hugo Meisl and the Wunderteam of the 1920s), Switzerland, Hungary and Germany (where he spent time teaching his technical tools to players, amateur and professional). He spent the end of the 1930s back in England, coaching Fulham and Aston Villa, but his ideas never really caught on in the English game.
I would suggest reading the appropriate sections on Hogan in Jonathan Wilson’s Inverting the Pyramid, and this as well: http://equaliserblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/1-hogan/
Nuno – I bought a copy of “Prophet or Traitor” from the UK and got through about 7/8ths of it. It’s merely ok, which is unfortunate because I think Jimmy Hogan is, as you say, a pioneer. My biggest problem with it is the author, on multiple occasions, uses Hogan’s story as a screed against English anti-intellectualism, I felt it got WAY too preachy, and unfortunately left a lot to be desired.
For those uniniated – Jimmy Hogan was a former English footballer who, as a child, put a lot of practice into his technique, and felt the technical side of the game was far too under-utilized in the English game. After a decent but injury plagued career, Hogan took to coaching, first in Britain, but eventually he made a move to Holland, then to Austria and Switzerland, demonstrating his technical abilities to his players. He was stuck in Europe during World War I and taken as a prisoner of war, but his ‘punishment’ was to coach MTK of Hungary, to five domestic titles and lighting the spark of a nation whose national team would eventually come 2nd in the 1954 World Cup and become the first side to beat England on home soil in 1953. He was first, and foremost, a teacher, and is revered on the continent, especially in Austria (where he worked with Hugo Meisl and the Wunderteam of the 1920s), Switzerland, Hungary and Germany (where he spent time teaching his technical tools to players, amateur and professional). He spent the end of the 1930s back in England, coaching Fulham and Aston Villa, but his ideas never really caught on in the English game.
I would suggest reading the appropriate sections on Hogan in Jonathan Wilson’s Inverting the Pyramid, and this as well: http://equaliserblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/1-hogan/
