Tired of all those 'who is the best player/ best team' questions? Well, here is a different question for thought.

What percentage of a teams success should be attributed to the players or the coaches?

Surely, there are more factors that contribute to the success of a team but I just wanted to know about the players and coaches. There are some teams that have great players and a mediocre coach (E.G. England in Euro2000). Then there are other teams that have a great coach but the players could be better (Too many examples to list).

Anyway, this should be interesting...

i think an important factor to wether a team has succes, is how good a coach motivates his players, no matter if it's Ferguson, Trappatoni, Capello, del Bosque, or a coach for some 2nd division welsh team or whatever.......

If the coach is great, the players play out of their boots. Hector Cuper and Valencia pop to mind.

My school team sucked, we had a crazy (and I mean it, he was really messed up in the mind. The older team coaches agreed) coach.

I hate my school coach cause all he cares about his hate and running. Let's say I had a division 2 (3,4) coach from England (or UK), I would love to play because I can almost be certain this guy knows what he is talking about. My coach just said today, "We know a lot about soccer, we've been in soccer for 5-10 years. Stick with us and you'll learn it all."

Gimme a break. I've learned nearly all of it, hell, I know more than you coach who prnounces "Kluivert" wrong, and who didn't believe me when I told him what club Kluivert plays for. (He knew he played for Holland though).

And with those kind of coaches, it almost makes me hate playing. It's no fun, and - I get to wake up early again and do the same crap with them. BAH. C'ya later.