Although the Championship is a sub-league, it is a place where Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and is a testing ground for many potential young managers to compete with each other. Former Liverpool academy coach and now coaching veteran team Steve Ofern Oftingham Forest. Cooper is an example of one of the potential stocks.
Steve, from Wales, in his early forties. Cooper, whose dad Keith was a former Premier League card, as a teenager Steve. Cooper was a rising right-back for Welsh side Wrexham, but in the end he didn't play on the first team. Then-Wrexham manager Brian Flynn encouraged Steve, who was only 20 years old at the time. Cooper considered going to coaching class to learn to coach the team, and that's it for Steve. Cooper plunged into the coaching path, and by the age of 27 he was one of the youngest coaches to qualify as a professional coach at the highest level of pro licence. After successfully qualifying as a coach, Steve. Cooper returned to his home team, Wrexham, to train for the U12 echelon, rising all the way to the team's head of youth until he left the team in 2008.
September 2008 Steve. Cooper was recruited by Liverpool to teach at the Academy of Youth, where he developed his leadership style and honed his youth training in different echelons for the first three years. In Steve. In Cooper's mind, there are three main directions for youth training development: 1. breaking down barriers in talent training; 2. making students understand the way to win; 3. taking care of the future development of youth training talents. His clarity of thought was highly regarded by the team, and in July 2011 he was promoted to youth manager, and in his first year he played with a squad of rookies under the age of 18, with an average age of just over 16 years old in the starting defence. Although on the tactical philosophy Steve. Cooper may not have a strong tiki-taka style like his predecessor and Liverpool youth winger Rodolfo Borrell, but he established the 4231 as the basic formation, and he also attaches great importance to the personal training of players, and has coached young Liverpool players such as Sterling, Arnold and Ben Woodburn. In the 12/13 season he led Liverpool under-18 to the FA Cup Semi-Final Four, only to lose to Chelsea.
2013 Steve. Cooper began helping the FA of England and Wales as mentors for coaching training, and then led LinkedIn the Gran U17 international to win the 2017 World Youth Championship, in the process he led the team to win consecutive victories over Brazil and Spain, and under his main players were Manchester City's Phil Foden, Manchester United's Jayden Sancho, Chelsea's Huddoi, Arsenal's Smith Rowe and other young players, this class of young players have emerged in their respective teams today. The following year he led LinkedIn The Small International to reach the final four of the European Youth Championship, only to lose to the Netherlands on penalties. During his tenure as coach of different echelons in England Steve. Cooper has established a system of training with and without the ball for coaches at all levels, and has also written training plans for coaching young players.
June 2019 Steve. Cooper was recognized by Championship side Swansea City for coaching, and after his initial takeover, the team played a strong momentum, scoring 16 points in the first six games with 18 points, which was Swansea City's best start in 41 years. During the season, he brought in a number of young players from Premier League teams such as Liverpool and Chelsea such as Ryan Brewster, Conor Gallagher, Marc Guéhi, etc., and Ryan Brewster scored 11 goals in only half a season. At one point the pandemic brought the season to a standstill under Steve. Cooper still led his team to beat Nottingham Forest to sixth place in the league table with a goal difference just in time for the last train to qualify for the play-offs, but his side lost 3-2 to Brentford in the final four and missed the final. In the second season, his Swansea City went further to finish the season with a fourth-place finish in the league and reached the promotion play-off final, just one step away from the Premier League, but unfortunately lost to Brentford for two consecutive years. He then began to disagree with the team and announced his departure a year early in July of the same year.
Two months later Steve, who was working for the FA at the time, was working on a study tour. Cooper received an invitation from Nottingham Forest to succeed the fired Chris Hughton as firefighting coach. Nottingham Forest started off to a very poor start, losing six of its seven games, the team's worst record since 1913. Steve. In the first week after Cooper took over, he briefed the team's senior players on his philosophy of governing the army, expressing his requirements in mind, hoping that the team would not be divided into you and me. Morale was low at the time, and even the goals were not very celebratory. Steve. Cooper knows that to restore the confidence of his players, he needs to use the right language to re-inject the team with faith and winning attitudes. He started with his daily routines, such as encouraging players to call him "Coops" instead of calling him "gaffer" or "boss", and establishing a professional but intimate atmosphere in the team. He also attached great importance to communication between players and coaches and team meetings, and he converted the conference room of the team's training base into a larger council chamber. In addition, he also met with the team's meritorious star Garry Birtles, John McGovern and other disciples of the famous coach Clover to understand the historical and cultural heritage of the club.
On transfer operations steve. After Cooper's arrival, the team ushered in a period of innovation, and the management invited a new CEO and a new transfer operation team to replace the team's old blood. Under the leadership of president Dane Murphy and Taymour Roushdi, the team established a system of data analysis, and according to the evaluation of Steve. Cooper signed several players in nottingham Forest's first transfer window, including striker Sam Serridge from Stoke City and Steve Cook, who signed for free from Bournemouth. As a new player, Steve Cook quickly adapted to the team, and getting along well with his teammates and coaches helped him integrate into the team. In Steve. Cooper's Diop Trahu mentioned that Brennan Johnson also worked well on the right, and the team's record began to rise steadily, all the way from the second half to the upper challenge to qualify for the play-offs. The team's mental outlook has improved greatly, and there is no shortage of deadly scenes before the end of the game, including the defeat of Arsenal in the third round of the FA Cup, and then a bigger victory in the next round of another Premier League team, Leicester City, to become the "giant killer" of this year's FA Cup.
Nottingham Forest, who have now scored 58 points in 36 Championship games, are still struggling to qualify for a play-off and have retired two Premier League teams to reach the fab quarter-finals for the first time in 26 years. Steve. The changes Cooper has brought to the team are still not fully harvested, but at least he is building a team that is not easy to beat, and hopes to see him take it to the next level one day.