The fan club is growing Pep Guardiola to NBA coaches. To the coach of the Golden State Warriors, Steve Kerrand one from the Boston Celtics, Joe Mazzulla, is now with one from the Toronto Raptors, Darko Rajakovic. The Serbian coach looks to coaches from other sports to learn from and mentioned the former Barça player among them. Although also his eternal rival.
“There are amazing coaches in other sports that you can learn from. For me it’s very interesting to learn about football, I love Pep Guardiola and I love Jose Mourinho, those guys are amazing. Any chance I go to a clinic, anything they talk about leadership“It helps me a lot,” Rajakovic highlighted in yesterday’s Raptors – Warriors preview (105-120) when MD asked about his references to other sports.
The coach also mentioned the NHL, and, specifically, the coach with the most superbowl in history with six with the New England Patriots.
“I’m reading a book Bill Belichick. “I know absolutely nothing about American football, I don’t know the rules, but I am impressed with how he approaches training, how to guide the process and take care of it,” the coach highlighted. newbie of the Raptors.
While Steve Kerr was inspired by Guardiola’s Barça to build the best team of the last decade – he showed his players videos of the Barça team as an example of moving the ball -, Joe Mazzulla recently informed the influence of Pep’s method to his team. The Celtics coach traveled to Manchester to meet the San Pedro during the All Star break.
Guardiola’s idea is also a good mirror in which to look for Darko Rajakovic, because the Raptors are also defined by sharing the ball and under the direction of Balkan they have established their help record in a game with 44.
However, Rajakovic showed the same admiration for Pep’s antithesis, Jose Mourinho. It’s curious that the Raptors coach experienced the rise of the Guardiola – Mourinho rivalry up close to those extremes. Barça – Real Madrid Well, he trained in Spain between 2009 and 2012.
Darko Rajakovic, 45, was then in charge of Torrelodones Space from Madrid of the EBA League. At one time with Pep, and apart from his time in youth basketball at Borac Mozzart and Estrella Roja, the Serbian had his first experience as a coach in the fourth Spanish category as the Catalan did in directing the Barcelona B in the Third Division on 07/08. Now, they are both in the elite.
Also as the current coach of City of Manchester, the Serbian stands out for being correct and elegant in press conferences but, like when Pep cut Mou in the 2021 Champions League semi-final, Darko Rajakovic also had an appearance in the newspaper archive where he was very comfortable. Balkan attacked the referees without filters after a match against Lakers In January. At that moment, his vein came out mourinista
Rajakovic was an assistant coach at Oklahoma, Phoenix and Memphis before being named head coach of the Raptors in June and becoming only the second European coach in NBA history after his compatriot. Igor Kokoskov. One coach inspired in equal parts day and night, Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho.
Source: La Verdad
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