John Herdman, an Englishman of the same age as David Beckham. His appearance when he was young was not much worse than the million-eyed Xiaobei, but the height of 165cm made him look a little unobtrusive, which lowered a lot of appearance. But now, the 46-year-old Herdman has created a miracle in the history of the World Cup, becoming the first person in the history of the record.
Fast forward to 2011, when Hedman made his world cup debut like a jade-faced boy. At the age of 36, he was the manager of the New Zealand women's football team, the first team of his independent coaching career. After 5 years of slow work and meticulous work, he led the southern hemisphere women's football team to complete his dream of coaching the World Cup. However, At that time, Herdman did not attract much attention, but after the competition, he went to the higher level of the Canadian women's football team to start the second coaching career.
From 2011 to 2018, another 8 years, Herdman and Canadian football were inextricably linked. During this time, he once again led the team to participate in the second women's World Cup, and also helped the Canadian women's football team win two Olympic women's football medals (bronze medals in 2012 and 2016). Since 2018, the Canadian Football Association has taken a fancy to Herdman's love and dedication to football and "regularized" him as the manager of the men's football team. This is somewhat similar to today's Chinese men's football coach Li Xiaopeng.
After nearly 4 years of hard work, Herdman brought out the strongest team in Central and North America during the golden period of Canadian football development. At least in the World Preliminary Round, 14 of the 19 games won and only lost 1, canadian football with extraordinary efficiency and rapidity, no longer a spectator in North and Central America, successfully advanced to the World Cup as the first in the division. Herdmann's success was no accident, nor was it the one that some believed to be Bayern superstar Alfonso Davis.
He coached Canada as a team that relied on teamwork, and even when Alfonso Davis was out of the game due to injury, Herdman still had endless winning tricks. A four-goal win over Jamaica was enough to prove their hard power. More than 10 years later, Herdman is still young, but he became the first head coach in the history of the World Cup to participate in the Women's World Cup and the Men's World Cup. The record happened to this amazing coach who didn't have any player experience.
It turns out that only the right people meet the criteria for an ordinary team to choose the national team manager. Lippi and Camacho, the "golden dollar coaches", are not the key factors in changing a weak brigade. Like-mindedness is more critical, pragmatism is more critical, in short, Herdman is the pragmatic manager who found the right opponent in the Canadian men's football team at the right time. His experience may also have great reference significance for the future selection of the national football team. The greatest skill of a coach is not fame, but down-to-earth true ability.