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Original Title: Jesse Marsch on responsibility for team failure: “At one point I said to the players at Leeds, ‘You guys have seen nine coaches fired, at what point do you take responsibility for the coach getting fired’”
Quote from the relevant section:
“Because the worst part about professional football is as soon as things get tough, the chairman, the sport director, everybody above you only looks at the coach and the players try to protect themselves from being attached to the coach.
I mean it was perfect at Leeds. At one point I said to the players at Leeds, ‘you guys have seen nine coaches fired. At one point do you take responsibility for making sure the coach didn’t get fired?’ I told them I played 14 years professionally. I never had one coach fired in 14 years.
I had four coaches of the year. I won titles. I made sure that and I was by far not the least talented player on the team, but I cared about the club and I cared about winning, right?
But the world that gets created now in football is as soon as something goes wrong, the manager is an idiot, get rid of them. And I’m sorry, I don’t want to be judged by wins and losses. I want to be judged by creating something.
And so this is what I’ve been able to do with the national team. If you ask me, I want the team to be good, right? I want the team to show, I love these boys.
I want them to show how good they are. I want them to prove to themselves, because there’s something about the Canadian persona that’s a little bit apologetic, right? And who better to help change that than an arrogant American, right?
Like, yes. And so, like, I’m trying to, like, help them on a path to let them know that they’re good, that it’s okay to say you’re good, that you deserve to be good, and you deserve to win, and you deserve big, big moments, and to help them build that into the way we talk, into the way we play, into the way we train, into everything we do. And so, honestly, that’s what matters to me more than anything.”