Rafa Benitez ranked in list of best Managers in World by French journalists
Rafa Benitez has been included in a last of the World’s top Managers.
L’Equipe asked 33 of their journalists to use a voting system to decide on who should make the list of the 50 best in the World.
This is how they went about it.
L’Equipe:
‘A simple question: who are the best coaches in operation? To give them complete freedom, no guidance was given to them on the criteria to be taken into account. Everyone gave the importance they wanted to the prize list, the recent results, the style of play and so on.
We asked each juror to select 30 coaches each and to rank them from 1 to 30, with the number 1 being the best coach in the world. The votes were held until Monday, April 10, before the results of the quarter-finals of the Champions League are known.
How votes were counted
The first choice of each juror obtained 30 points, the second choice had 29 points and so on until the thirtieth choice, which had a point. All scores were added to give a total score for each coach.
L’Equipe write-up on Rafa Benitez:
‘Never again reached the heights of the miraculous victory in the Champions League with Liverpool in 2005.
Even the Europa League won with Chelsea in 2013 was devalued by the disenchantment of the Blues fans for the former Red.
He did not manage to keep Newcastle in the Premier League but is about to bring it back a year later, which is never simple.’
As I wrote this, L’Equipe had revealed numbers 11 to 50, with the top 10 still to be revealed.
These are the interesting ones from numbers 11 to 50, with five current Premier League Managers, or rather six when including Rafa Benitez!
The L’Equipe journalist overall rating is before each manager’s name, then to the right is how many points each one got from the 33 journalists in total.
11 Didier Deschamps (France) – 538 points
12 Mauricio Pochettino (Tottenham) – 509 points
13 Luis Enrique (Barcelona) – 491 points
18 Claudio Ranieri (No current club) – 390 points
20 Arsene Wenger (Arsenal) – 293 points
27 Rafa Benitez (Newcastle United) – 132 points
30 Claude Puel (Southampton) – 95 points
31 Ronald Koeman (Everton) – 92 points
37 Louis van Gaal (No current club) – 73 points
45 Chris Coleman (Wales) – 40 points
47 Eddie Howe (Bournemouth) – 36 points
No sign of Steve McClaren, John Carver, David Moyes and Alan Pardew.
Although there again, they haven’t yet revealed the top 10…!!!
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