Croatia's coaching school without a job: How is it possible that the entire 'coaching team' is without a job?

Croatia's coaching school without a job: How is it possible that the entire 'coaching team' is without a job? Croatian coaches without a job: 'Easy for Europe, but some clubs should answer this question'.

Croatia has never had so many internationally recognized coaches without a job. Eastern European coaches without a job: 'Easy for Europe, but some clubs should answer this question'.

Who are these coaches?

Igor Tudor, Zlatko Dalić, Nenad Bjelica, Igor Bišćan, Igor Jovićević, Željko Kopić, Kruno Jurčić, Goran Tomić, Igor Štimac, Ivan Prelec, Damir Krznar... If a serious European club were to hold a competition for a coach today, few countries with fewer than four million inhabitants could offer such a selection. The word is about experts who have led Juventus, Marseille, Lazio, Tottenham, Galatasaray, the Croatian national team, Shakhtar, Trabzonspor, Union Berlin, other European, but also relevant Chinese and Arab clubs... They have won championships and cups, played European competitions, developed players and built serious international careers. And yet, all of them are today - without a job.

How is this possible?

It is true that many of them have reached a level where they can wait and choose, rather than jumping 'on the first ball', but again - Croatia has never had so many internationally recognized coaches, and at the same time so many who are waiting for a new challenge. This, however, is not a story only about a few free experts, but also about a market that has changed, but also about a perception that may not have changed enough, as well as about a question that is rarely asked in Croatian football: do we believe, to start with, that we have enough of our own coaches to be able to say that Europe and the world do not value them?

What are the examples?

Before fifteen or twenty years, a Croatian coach in some major European league was an exception. Today it is no longer. After all, Ivan Jurić is a coaching brand in Italy and is still 'starta' Monzu. Niko Kovač has behind him Eintracht, Bayern, Monaco, and now leads Borussia from Dortmund, Ivan Leko, currently in Brugge, is among the most respected coaches in Belgium... Tudor, among others, has led Juventus, Tottenham, Marseille, Galatasaray, PAOK. Dalić led Croatia to its greatest successes in history. Bjelica has achieved results in Austria, Poland, Croatia, Turkey, and Germany. Jovićević was the champion of Ukraine, and then defeated the competition in Bulgaria. Bišćan has won trophies and worked in the representative system, Kopić has built a respectable foreign career, while Jurčić has disrupted the established order in Egypt.

How is it possible that the entire 'coaching team' has been without a job?

If Croatia's coaching school really produces experts who have worked for years on serious international addresses, how is it possible that, at one point, almost the entire 'coaching team' has been without a job?

What are the examples from the European elite?

Examples from the European elite are finally a clear proof, clubs at the highest levels are spending coaches like chalk on tactical boards, enough to look at the example of Roberto De Zerbi, who has also gone through periods without a job, although many consider him one of the most progressive European coaches. Now he is in Tottenham, replacing Tudor, but the question is - for how long?