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In Switzerland they make precious watches, until the high-end European country has become a direct synonym for precision, elegance and perfection, and Rene Filer seems to be a great ambassador for the synonyms of Switzerland in Egypt since the beginning of his national formation.
Fyler, who recently turned 47 and celebrated his second title with Al-Ahmar, the league title, and is still a competitor in the Egyptian Cup and most importantly, the African Champions League, but does not escape the arrows of the criticism, from the masses at times and from the media at other times.
Coming from the countries of precision and idealism, he has become the victim of those who seek to find them 100%.
How do we rate the coach?
It can be said that there are schools to evaluate the coach, some see titles and tournaments when you coach a team the size of Al-Ahly is the only criterion, but not all coaches will have the opportunity to coach a permanent candidate to win championships , so the difference that the coach makes compared to his predecessor becomes perhaps the most important criterion.
Fyler took over Al-Ahly’s training almost 13 months ago, succeeding Uruguayan Martín Lasarte.
The Swiss at the time took over a team that hard won the League, and left the African Champions League with a disastrous result, eliminating the Cup at the hands of the same team that defeated him back and forth in the League.
With the current season nearing its end, Fyler topped the league with a difference close to double the difference between the two clubs in the League, and qualified for the semi-finals of the African Champions League after eliminating the same team that they defeated. Al-Ahmar for five last season, and he still has a chance in the Egyptian Cup.
With all this, Fyler was only defeated twice, against Etoile Sahel in Tunisia in a match that witnessed a controversial referee, and against Zamalek in the league 3-1, in addition to losing to the same team on penalties in the second local Super who fought with the team, after winning 3-1. 2 in the first national supercar last season.
On an individual level, the development witnessed by the performance of many players, perhaps led by Muhammad Al-Shennawi, Amr Al-Soliya and Hamdi Fathy, and before them Ramadan Sobhi before his departure from the team, is witness to a great success of Fyler in this regard.
In total, Al-Ahly won last season scoring 56 goals and receiving 20 goals, while 7 rounds before the end, Al-Ahly scored 61 goals and received 8. The difference is clear, and it becomes clearer when knows that Al-Ahly reached the expected 3 goal xG ratio in their first 26 league games, according to Para on the KoraStats website.
The filling adapts
The popular game Football Manager specifically assesses a coach’s ability to adapt to different circumstances, including life in a new country with a different culture.
Sufian Haney, an Anderlecht player, who trained with Fyler, told FilGoal.com previously: “Fyler changed Anderlecht a lot and everything he did was vital and important, because he is a coach who adapts based on football and the situation he’s in, he knows what the club needs, At that time the team didn’t win the league for a while and during that time Fyler understood and built a strong competitive team ready to perform well in all competitions soon “.
The Algerian spoke of a difference in culture and football itself between Switzerland and Belgium, what do you think of the difference between Europe and Egypt?
Fyler received from Lasarte a team that did not have the required strength and his results were evident in the season in which the Uruguayan coached him, but Fyler’s vision of the same team last November in an interview with Lucerne Zeitung of Switzerland illustrates the difference. What did Fyler do with the team whose basic composition did not change significantly, except by bringing in Mahmoud Metwally. And Mohamed Magdy “Afsha”.
“The quality on the Al-Ahly roster is very high. The players are physically strong and have great will and great skills. It is a roster like the German League midfielder roster.”
Fyler may have initially had some trouble adjusting to the personalities of the players, quite different from the ones he had in Europe.
Fyler complained, according to the report, about some things, like excluding a player – he did not name him – from a game.
Fyler says he took the advice of one of the best players to “keep calm” and addressed the team saying, “11 players are participating, 18 are on the match list, and everyone should accept that. Now you have to decide whether you agree or you want to angrily apologize for not participating in the session. “
Fyler added: “I can criticize the players, but in the end they need a leader and they always want to improve, so I have to be that way for them and not hurt their dignity.”
At this level, Fyler succeeded, and the evidence is the results achieved by the team despite Corona’s forced suspension and several attacks on the Al-Ahly ship itself.
Victim of circumstances
Before Corona’s forced suspension, Al-Ahly were perhaps the strongest candidate for the CAF Champions League title.
But the forced suspension, and the natural fluctuation that followed, turned the nominations, perhaps to the coach and the team that defeated him twice, Patrice Carteron and Zamalek.
At the same time, Al-Ahmar was exposed to new circumstances, namely the existence of a financially competing entity and caused him a strong technical blow by bringing his first star when he participated, Ramadan Sobhi.
Also, the problems of renewing the stars of the team, such as Ahmed Fathy, whom Fyler wanted to follow but preferred to go to Pyramids, as well as the problems that surrounded Hossam Ashour, the Swiss, who suffered many things beyond his control this season .
But despite that, he successfully sailed the ship to the first land of salvation, which is not enough for Al-Ahly fans by any means, and this matter has a detailed explanation.
Victim of idealism
According to the United Nations, Egypt is home to 102 million people, with an average age of 24.6 years.
The boy, who was born in the second half of the 1990s, became his youth in his twenties and naturally became the majority of the audience. That boy was not able to attend games much from the stands, hence the encouraging experiences of those older than him who saw the team exposed to frustrations and breaks.
That boy, of course, too, began to pursue football with a golden age that did not repeat itself, and may not repeat itself for the family.
Winning 5 CAF Champions League titles in 8 years is not repeated, and the permanent victory did not happen to Manuel José himself, and the influence of social media sites and opinions about them became greatly exaggerated, and the media were directly influenced by it, sometimes seeking to appear heavily on Facebook pages and tweets. Twitter.
The general public, and Al-Ahmar’s followers in particular, have turned for 100% and 99.9% idealism, something that will not happen.
Despite all this, René Fyler is crowned in the Egyptian League 6 days before its end, achieving a feat achieved only by Manuel José, and on the threshold of record numbers in the history of the Egyptian League, and he still has time to achieve more, whether in Egypt or abroad.
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