John Herdman goes into the 2022 FIFA World Cup as the only coach in history to guide both a women’s and a men’s team to a World Cup.
“My World Cup journey started at the 1986 World Cup and watching Gary Lineker score a goal when it looked like we were going to get knocked out and it would have been the same old English story,” Herdman said in an exclusive with Postmedia earlier this year.
“I started teaching and coaching, and it’s very similar; you start understanding learning styles and try to apply a lot of that into my passion that was football. I’m very much a teacher coach and I set up my own business — I was a franchisee — started some Brazilian soccer schools in England, trying to revolutionize the way English football was played.”
Herdman is passionate about everything in his life and his enthusiasm for the game is infectious. It didn’t take him long to win over the members of the women’s team, who had bottomed out with a disastrous performance at the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany and needed Herdman to rebuild the program.
It did not take Herdman long to earn the trust of his players, to the point where goal keeper Milan Borjan had two words when asked the biggest reason Canada was able to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since its only appearance in 1986.
“But when you get your passion and you find something you’re really interested in, you channel a lot of energy. As I’m getting older, it’s not the same, you really start to feel the long hours that you just ignored when you were younger.”
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