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Top European football coaches meet in Nyon


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Published : 12 Nov 2019 05:52 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 07:24 PM

Europe's club competitions and football's development were on the agenda when leading European club coaches met UEFA at the annual UEFA Elite Club Coaches Forum in Nyon on Tuesday, reports UEFA.

The latest annual UEFA Elite Club Coaches Forum, which took place at the House of European Football on Monday, once again provided a star-studded line-up of club coaches with a key platform to come together with UEFA to debate and discuss various football issues.

Talks focussed in particular on the video assistant referee (VAR) system, which UEFA first used in the UEFA Champions League from last season’s knockout phase onwards before extending the system to other European club and national team competitions over the past few months. The international match calendar also featured, alongside a review of tactical and technical trends in last season's UEFA Champions League.

"The meeting is important for UEFA, because it’s the only opportunity that we have to speak with the top coaches," said UEFA Deputy General Secretary Giorgio Marchetti.

"It's vital that we listen to them, because they are main stakeholders in the game," he added.

The coaches present in Nyon were Carlo Ancelotti (Napoli), Unai Emery (Arsenal), Paulo Fonseca (Roma), Rudi Garcia (Olympique Lyonnais), Josep Guardiola (Manchester City), Erik ten Hag (Ajax), Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool), Mircea Lucescu (experienced Roma­nian coach), Maurizio Sarri (Juventus), Thomas Tuchel (Paris Saint-Germain) and Zinédine Zidane (Real Madrid).

"I think the coaches like the fact," Marchetti said, "that it’s a unique opportunity for them to sit around a table and speak to colleagues about important topics that they feel are part of their daily jobs."

Marchetti explained that the discussions on VAR had given the coaches an ideal chance to talk about the system with the chairman of UEFA's Referees Committee, Roberto Rosetti, who was present at the meeting 

in Nyon.

"It's useful that the coaches and the main referees' representative can speak together," he said, "because it helps to clarify situations.