Rafael Benitez
Rafael Benitez
Rafael "Rafa" Benítez Maudesis a Spanish football coach currently managing Newcastle United. He is the only manager in history to have won the UEFA Europa League, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth16 April 1960
CityMadrid, Spain
champions manager players playing sign
It is important for the manager to be able to say to players they want to sign that they will be playing in the Champions League.
ability deep good key normal player spaces
He's a good player and when you play deep with spaces and you have pace and ability it's normal that you can play well. But for me the key was the first 20 minutes.
faces harder players work
If we have new faces all the players think we need to work harder because they want to play,
field game job players rest side squad strong time
But we have another game on Friday, and this is the time to use the squad to give players some rest and to field a side which will still be strong and do the job for us.
available final games leaving players serious
Suspending the players for two games and leaving them available for the final would be enough because it was not a serious incident.
easy players produce tired
It is not easy to produce performances like this when we have so many players who are tired after so many games.
challenge convinced fight games good last players squad strong team trophy
My idea is to have two players for each position, ... If you have a strong squad you can play all the games with a good team. I am convinced we already have a better team than last season. Yes, we want to fight for the Premiership, but we want to go for all of the trophies. We will not say one trophy is more important than the other, because we now have a squad that can challenge in all competitions.
challenge convinced fight games good last players squad strong team trophy
My idea is to have two players for each position. If you have a strong squad you can play all the games with a good team. I am convinced we already have a better team than last season. Yes, we want to fight for the Premiership, but we want to go for all of the trophies. We will not say one trophy is more important than the other, because we now have a squad that can challenge in all competitions.
future good nice player prefer talk
He is a good player and a nice lad, but only he can talk about his future because I only prefer to talk about our own future,
difficult diving players pushing
It's very difficult to play here. Players diving all the time, pushing - they have another set of rules.
agents danny dream lots players spoke talked time wants
It was important he has said that he wants to play for us. We have talked to lots of players and agents but the first time we spoke to Danny he said it was a dream to play for us.
changed maybe players realize team virtually
At Valencia we changed the players virtually every match, maybe we will not be able to do that just as much but all must realize they are important to the team, and it is the team that is important.
awards fantastic fully last medals might players receive season
Any medals and awards our players might receive for last season are fully merited, because they all did a fantastic job.
afterwards closer fight focused players saying win worry
If we win, we will be closer and we can fight for more things, but I don't want to worry the players by saying too much about this. I want them to be focused on what they need to do to win the game. Afterwards we can think about the table.