I was browsing the net and now thought of this, Maturana is to Trinidad as Juande Ramos was to Tottenham!
Juande Ramos was looked at as a coaching genius after what he did with Sevilla, but went to Tottenham and laid an absolute EGG, and if he stayed on, they MOST LIKELY would have gotten relegated at the end of the season.
Likewise, Mr. Maturana had a pedigree as a very successful and very well respected coach, but since his arrival in T&T up until now, has been mostly laying eggs along the way, and and astoundingly and even paradoxically, to us outside observers it seems as if the team is progressively getting worse! That is some feat to achieve for a respected coach, I am awed!
When you look at the present situation with Trinidad under coach Maturana, and the situation Tottenham was in under Juande Ramos, the similarities between the two is really amazing and explains alot.
Two well respected and successful coaches who speak Spanish and coach English-speaking teams but cannot speak said teams' language. All the press and info that came out of Tottenham identified that-the coach's inability to speak English, which caused communications breakdowns, made him unable to form relationships and understanding with players- thereby building respect, and inability to fully communicate views and coaching to players on the fly.
Just as Juande Ramos' inability to speak English contributed greatly to his coaching tenure at Tottenham being an absolute nightmare for the club, so too Maturana's inability to speak English and his refusal to learn it has greatly contributed to his his tenure being a nightmare for this country.
Just as Juande Ramos' lack of knowledge of the English game was a contributing factor in his spectacular failure in England, so to Francisco Maturana's lack of knowledge of Concacaf teams and his failure or unwillingness to scout our opponents and relay the information(once again the language barrier comes into play) on each of their players and a game plan to our team allowed USA to walk all over us, and Landon Donovan and Jozy Altidore to run ole mas, without receiving the special attention a proper game plan would have called for. Perhaps the team's utter lack of organisation and Maturana's failure to select our best players and best team is partly caused by a (or many) breakdown in communication because of the language barrier.( Giving Maturana the benefit of the doubt here, lol)
Just like Juande Ramos proved his coaching ability by greatly lifting a faultering Real Madrid team after his humiliation and utter failure at Tottenham, so too Maturana may have great success with team from South America after. What this shows, is that even though a man may be a good coach generally, a good number of variables could come together in such a way that results in him not being a good coach for a particular team at a particular time, or in fact being a nightmarishly bad coach. Sticking with such a coach may spell doom for the coach and the team, while, as Juande Ramos' example has shown, parting with such a coach in most cases results in a better aftermath for both parties.
Also what his example has shown, is that parting too late can still spell doom for the team, look at Tottenham now, they're desperately trying stay out of the relegation zone, and they've had tens of games to get it right. We do not have that luxury in our World Cup Qualifying, but just 7 games left.
Well, thats turned out longer than I expected, I came into this telling myself I going to make sure this is only one or two lines,lol. Anyways, what do you fellas(and ladies) think?
Take care out there peeps.
