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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
Topic Started: 20 May 2016, 05:06 PM (2,288,163 Views)
Dannybhoy95
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He even picks up maximum points during 'slumps'. Is there anything he canny do? :wub:
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His main improvement has been ditching that mad jacket he was wearing - it's been as big a decision as any tactical shift. Well played Brendan.
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24 Dec 2016, 09:52 PM
His main improvement has been ditching that mad jacket he was wearing - it's been as big a decision as any tactical shift. Well played Brendan.
I like that jacket
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Must be a right bastard to be sat next to at the table for Christmas dinner. He'd know all the tactical points to hold the cracker to make sure that he wins every time.
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24 Dec 2016, 03:39 PM
This probably belongs in the Chris Davies thread, but imagined it would probably be seen by more here. An interview with our assistant manager in today's Times by Graham Spiers. Talks very highly of Brendan and the club...

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Really good read that.

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http://www.celticfc.tv/tv/video/vod/4190

Merry Christmas from the gaffer.
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Has spent Christmas Day in a hospice in Belfast and donated £26,000 on behalf of him and the club. The man just oozes class :thumbsup:
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Great guy and manager.
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He's a touch of class. Hope he is around for a good while.
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25 Dec 2016, 04:47 PM
Has spent Christmas Day in a hospice in Belfast and donated £26,000 on behalf of him and the club. The man just oozes class :thumbsup:
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25 Dec 2016, 04:47 PM
Has spent Christmas Day in a hospice in Belfast and donated £26,000 on behalf of him and the club. The man just oozes class :thumbsup:
God bless him and the occupants of the hospice
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raisedacelt
25 Dec 2016, 04:47 PM
Has spent Christmas Day in a hospice in Belfast and donated £26,000 on behalf of him and the club. The man just oozes class :thumbsup:
God bless him and the occupants of the hospice
Well said
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25 Dec 2016, 04:47 PM
Has spent Christmas Day in a hospice in Belfast and donated £26,000 on behalf of him and the club. The man just oozes class :thumbsup:
Top class :worthy:
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25 Dec 2016, 06:17 PM
He's a touch of class. Hope he is around for a good while.
same here
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BRENDAN RODGERS said last night that too many aspiring young Scottish footballers are not dedicated enough to succeed and urged them to use Andy Murray as a role model if they are serious about making it to the top of the sport.

The Northern Irishman, a former Chelsea youth coach who was tutored in Spanish by the world No.1’s coach Jamie Delgado’s father, hasn’t been in Scotland long but one of his first impressions is that our young players are too often held back by poor diet and lifestyle and a failure to take personal responsibility for the sacrifices that need to be made to succeed in modern football.

“Listen, there are great players there,” said Rodgers. “Every culture is different and, from what I have seen here, Chris McCart does a brilliant job overseeing the academy.

“But what I see, from my short experience up here, is just ensuring that they all understand what it actually takes to be an elite player,” he added.

“I have witnessed one or two up here with big talents but when it gets tough they go the other way. This is the key thing for Scottish football – understanding that if you want to be a Champions League player, or be the best you can be, your talent is not enough. You need to prepare in every facet of your life.

“I’ve spoken to enough players, and they blame everyone else. They blame the coach, they blame never getting the chance. They don’t take responsibility. It’s everyone else’s fault.

“And this is what I have been very, very clear about coming in here – with the kids, the 16s, 17s, 18s, 19s, 20s: You have opportunities here, with some of the best facilities in the country, at one of the biggest clubs in the world, you have every tool here in order to be the best player. You need to commit to it.

“We will have a plan for you to get into the first team, but the crown is on your head. You’re the king of your own destiny; you’re responsible for it. Stop taking short-cuts, stop blaming everyone else and get on with being an elite player. And, if you just fall short of an excellent level, you’ll still have a career.”

While Rodgers also pointed to the example of veteran professionals such as Scott Brown and Kolo Toure, Scotland’s world No.1 tennis player, currently eschewing the Christmas festivities to put in punishing pre-season sessions in Miami, is perhaps the role model par excellence.

“What an example that boy is,” said Rodgers. “Unbelievable. You’ve got great sportspeople and he’s the biggest example for everyone. A guy who, when he started, everyone said wasn’t strong enough. So, what did he do? He changes his diet, gets stronger, more powerful, devotes his life to it.

“He’s not there to pick up an award [BBC Sports Personality of the Year] because his training means everything,” Rodgers added. “It’s not the glitz and the glamour with Andy. It’s about being the best he can be. If you want to get to the top of your sport and be the best, there’s your example right there.

“I know one of his coaches, Jamie Delgado, who has been close with him for years. His father was my Spanish tutor. I know his sports scientist and he trains like a trooper. There’s no stone left unturned.

“When you have that mentality, as a footballer and a football nation, then you’re part of the way there. Then if you have talent, which the country will still clearly have, then you have a chance. I can also look here at Scott Brown. He’s devoted and getting the rewards. He’s what an elite sportsperson looks like.”
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A CHIP on the shoulder and chips on the dinner plate.

For all budding players in Scottish football the age-old problem of attitude and diet remain obstacles to progress.

But Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers would love to play his part in changing the mindset of Scotland’s talented teenagers and help to reinvigorate the national game.

Rodgers has been involved in elite levels of football at youth and senior levels now for getting on 25 years and knows what it takes to make a successful top-flight footballer.

The Celtic coach sees talent aplenty in Scotland’s youth ranks, including his own academy at Parkhead.

But turning potential into reality requires self-motivation, dedication and the sort of drive that has turned Andy Murray into the world’s top tennis player.

Practising chips rather than scoffing them is key to success.

And Rodgers only hopes the penny drops with Scotland’s football hopefuls so that stories of wasted talent begin to dwindle in the years ahead.

On the face of it a kid from Dunblane should have no chance of becoming the best tennis player on the planet, yet Murray has defied the odds.

Rodgers has gleaned an insight into the Murray camp thanks to a friendship with two of his backroom team and would love to see more Scots follow the Murray approach to sport.

The Northern Irishman said: “What an example that boy is. Unbelievable.

“A guy who when he started everyone said wasn’t strong enough. So what did he do? Changes his diet, gets stronger, more powerful, devotes his life to it.

“It’s not the glitz and the glamour with Andy, it’s about being the best he can be. If you want to get to the top of your sport and be the best, there’s your example there.

“I know one of his coaches, Jamie Delgado, who has been close with him for years. His father was my Spanish tutor.

“I know his sports scientist and he trains like a trooper. There’s no stone left unturned. That’s what it’s about.

“When you have that mentality, as a footballer and a football nation, then you’re part the way there.”

If Celtic’s kids are ignorant enough to think that the Murray example is irrelevant to them then Rodgers has another case study for them at their own club.

He explained: “I took the under-20s and interrupted their lunch, which I apologised for.

“I said, ‘Sorry guys, come with me a second’ and I took them into the gym. Kolo Toure was in there doing his activation, stretching. He’s 35 years of age.

“He could have been away home, but a few hours after he’d finished training he was in the gym on his own.

“That’s what you need to do to be a top player. It doesn’t start when you arrive at the training ground, it starts with your first waking moment.

“Then when you drive out, it doesn’t end. It’s a lifestyle. It’s right the way through.

“The guys who will play on until they’re 35 are the ones who have been looking after their body.

“If you have a brain to add to your brawn, then you’ll have a chance.

“The key thing is not the boy’s talent – it’s whether they want to devote their life to it.

“If you want to operate at the level of Champions League, be a world-class player or the very best player you can be, you have to develop technically, tactically, socially, and in terms of your lifestyle.”
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While a run of games for any young player is unlikely amid such a strong squad, Rodgers gave Calvin Miller his first "smell of the grass" at first team against Partick Thistle in midweek and give others their chances in the second part of the season too. The likes of Tony Ralston, Jamie McCart and Kristoffer Ajer could all come into contention, but the Northern Irishman isn't concerned only about the current occupants of his development squad. Of equal importance is planting a seed in the minds of nine- and ten-year-olds and their parents that their journeys through to Lennoxtown are worthwhile. Project Brave and the arrival of Malky Mackay as SFA performance director aims to place more focus than ever before on ensuring that a pathway is there right through to the big team.

"In the second part of the season that will happen," said Rodgers. "When you are playing young players it is the Under-8s who get the motivation also. The parent who is driving up here on the winter nights to see their son on the astroturf, they might be doing it three times a week or down in Barrowfield. They know their kids are going to get a chance - they are not coming here thinking it is going to be a wasted journey."

For the record Rodgers sees plenty of talented young players in his own academy, and in wider Scottish football. The only problem - and the reason for that behind the scenes glimpse at Toure - is that too often the Northern Irishman discerns an excuse culture there too. Diet and lifestyle is poor, while he tells a story about the agent of one 16-year-old kid banging on his door to demand a professional contract for a player who clearly wasn't in shape.

"I’ve had one player in here and I hope he sees the light because he's a big, big talent," said Rodgers. "The talent to play Champions League football. But the agent wanted to know when he was getting a professional contract and the kid was fat.

“We’ll see if the player is sensible enough to understand because he’s got a huge talent," the Northern Irishman added. "The point is, they want to play for Celtic but before you can play for Celtic, you have to be able to train with Celtic. If you’re never fit enough to train, how are you going to play?

"I haven’t been up here long enough; I don’t know the culture so well of junk food or whatever, but what I know is that if you want to operate at the level of Champions League, be a world class player or the very best player you can be, you have to develop technically, tactically, socially, and in terms of your lifestyle."

Scott Brown has had his moments but the Celtic captain too is reaping the benefits of a more holistic approach to his football. "Nutrition is a serious business in football at the highest level, and some of our senior players have seen that," said Rodgers, who feels it is never too early to preach the importance of a balanced diet for his player. "They have seen what it does to your performance. So you have to do it, and that’s a choice. The culture, if it is that, then fine, but you can never be a top country, or have top players."
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What a write-up, this guys going to take us places (already has) :worthy:

Never going to get everyone to buy into his philosophy (look at the ridicule Ronny got when he tried), but being a high profile figure good chance most will listen and take on-board his ideas for their own good

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Cheers for posting that


:wub: stay forever Brendan
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He is absolutely spot on as was Ronny in that respect. Ronny's issue was the ability to show it could be translated into good results on the pitch. Hopefully, more will be open to listening to Brendan, who is absolutely right about Andy Murray being an excellent example. Murray was skinny as anything and struggled to play 5 sets when he broke through...look at him now.

Everything out of Brendan's mouth is positive and long term.

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Edited by ghirl86, 27 Dec 2016, 10:55 AM.
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