“Mauricio Pochettino’s Arrival at Chelsea and Unique Coaching Practices Unveiled”

Premier League

Mauricio Pochettino’s arrival in the English capital is practically an open secret Therefore, although there is still an official statement that marks the start of the Argentine for a Chelsea that is already thinking about the next season, the British press begins to describe what the day-to-day life of the players will be like. Up to 54 players with whom the former PSG will meet on his first day of work at Stamford Bridge. There are cabals of all kinds and more than unique assumptions.

Since May 2022, there has been no trace of one of the most coveted coaches on the planet in the last decade. After his departure from a PSG where the defeat with Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 was reason enough to discard his services, Pochettino has waited for an opportunity among big clubs that as Tottenham or Chelsea, are the ones who have bid the strongest in order to seek an agreement for next season.

In the midst of all the expectation that exists for what will be his third cycle in the Premier League and for what it will mean to see him command a project full of moneyeconomic obstacles and failures in recent times, media such as The Sun reveal some of the particularities unknown to date that the strategist manages to play with luck and good energy.

From lemons to arrows in the throat

There are several practices that have accompanied Pochettino in recent times and that they have lived with each and every one of the players who have accompanied both Southampton, Tottenham, PSG or Espanyol de Barcelona. It is said in the media that the Argentine keeps a tray of lemons in his office in order to absorb negative energy. DT himself confirmed it in 2019: “They are there to get rid of bad energy…Some people come in with bad energy…It’s like a barrier, a sponge.”

Mauricio defines himself as a man who believes in energy, who allows himself to be influenced by its flow in his decisions and who fully believes in the power of auras in order to manage his day-to-day life. Even in his time around St. Mary’s or North London, the Argentine adopted practices such as making walk your footballers over of hot embers in order to burn the bad energies of a defeat: “Everyone was very brave. And the staff who did it too. Your mind is powerful and only you set your limits”.

To all this are added exercises such as putting sharp arrowheads against the throat of their footballers and that they end up breaking the weapon in order to encourage concentration, self-confidence and faith in the abilities of their coaches. He confessed to TalkSport in 2019: “When you see the arrow, you think ‘it’s impossible, how am I going to break the arrow against my throat?’ “You say: ‘No, come on, I’m going to commit suicide.’ You put it with the sharp point against your throat but then, bang, you move forward and break the arrow.

The Sun confirms that each and every one of these practices will reach Chelsea, where even Pochettino will decide what kind of detergent footballers should use to wash their clothes on match days. A new era begins Stamford Bridge and it will do so with practices at least never before seen in the Fulham neighborhood.