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Luiz Felipe Scolari, a world cup winner coach with Brazil in World Cup 2002, has been through up and down in his coaching life. Big Phil, that’s how England pers call him, is a former teacher who successfully teaches football to the world. His career as a coach is full of critic and doubt. It started in the World Cup 2002 when the Brazilian press ridiculed him for daring to suggest that his side, which had struggled throughout the South American qualifiers, would reach the last four of the 2002 World Cup finals or Euro 2004 when got many critics from Portuguese pers. Like the Brazilian media before them, the home critics have questioned his defensive tactics, his side’s poor results in friendlies, and, of course, that opening game loss here to Greece. However, history proved Scolari more than right.
In this world, there are coaches who, faced with a setback, stubbornly insist on sticking with what they perceive to be the strongest side. Scolari has shown great flexibility and has not been afraid to operate a “mini-revolution” by way of reaction to that opening loss. Along with his great tactics, he implements physicological treatment called the “hatred approach”. Hatred is a deep and emotional extreme dislike. The objects of such hatred can vary extensively. Hatred is often associated with a disposition towards hostility against the objects of hatred. And can drive oneself to extreme behaviors…