The Socceroos legend has taken the baton from Ange Postecoglou and Kevin Muscat at Japan’s Yokohama F. Marinos, who have reached the final of the AFC Champions League.
Few people thought Harry Kewell would become a coach after he retired. From an outsider’s perspective, he never really seemed the type. Firstly, he was a winger, heavily reliant on innate talent and physical attributes. Most high-level managers tend to be former midfielders or defenders, more cerebral players involved in more of the play, organising and directing their teammates rather than finishing things off in the final third.
“Harry was one who was always keen to talk about the game, and why things happened, and what players should do. There was a period there, when he was playing, he’d give me a buzz and say, ‘Have you been watching the games? Have you got any feedback, how do you think I’m playing?’ And we’d have some conversations that were always quite interesting.”Even more unfathomable than the idea of Kewell the coach, to the rest of us, was of Kewell the successful coach.
as a first-team coach in 2022 and give him the perfect platform to rehabilitate his reputation after a torrid spell in England. “I’ve gone into four clubs. One was good, but the other three have given me an idea of, ‘Hey, I want you to transform the club. I want to play this, I want this, I want everything done properly.’ But they want it done last year.Getty
It has not been smooth sailing – Yokohama are mid-table in the J.League, with just four wins from 11 matches, but their focus has been on the AFC Champions League, last month overturning a 1-0 deficit in the first leg of their semi-final against South Korea’s Ulsan HD to win a penalty shootout and book their spot in the final.
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