To turn around the fortunes of the Montreal Impact, it’s important for players to look past Henry the player and buy into the philosophy of Henry the coach
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Head coach of Montreal Impact Thierry Henry talks with his team during a Group C match against Toronto FC, as part of the MLS Is Back Tournament at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex on July 16, 2020, in Reunion, Fla.
“You can’t lie – he has his aura,” said Patrice Bernier, the former Canadian international and now one of Henry’s assistant coaches in Montreal. “I’ve seen it myself, but people only see Thierry Henry the player, and I think he always tries to say that, ‘Yeah, I was a player, but now I am a coach. That part of me is gone.’”
But Montreal gives him an opportunity to change the narrative, to show his development as a coach – and to do so in perhaps a more stable environment than he might find in European soccer. “We were having small signs of progress, of building something,” Bernier said. “We were cut short, and the thing is we are not like … Toronto, [Los Angeles FC], all these teams who had success because the core of the group had been together for some time playing under the same coach, playing under the same principles and ideas.”
One thing that was greatly improved from the first game to the second was the Impact’s compete level. Coming from someone such as Henry, who has spent much of his playing career holding both himself and his teammates to extremely high standards, that’s hardly surprising.
As the record goal-scorer for both the French national team and English Premier League heavyweight Arsenal, Henry has spent time under the tutelage of some of the sport’s most revered coaches, from Arsène Wenger to Pep Guardiola. Whether or not their tactics and viewpoints have rubbed off, though, may be secondary for Henry right now, Sutton said.
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