Inducted coach of Espoirs on Tuesday, Thierry Henry explained that his managerial approach had changed a lot.
Despite an impressive career as a player, Thierry Henry has lacked references since the start of his new coaching life. The first experience of the 1998 world champion as number 1, at AS Monaco, ended in failure.
Water has flowed under the bridge since this learning period. Having passed through Toronto during the Covid years, Thierry Henry himself admits having “ put in water in (his) wine“. In other words, the great player he was is now more pedagogical and patient with the new generation.
“Now it’s up to me to reach out to young people and understand the codes”
” The greatest affinities resulting from my times as a coach are young people, he explained to the press on Tuesday. I didn’t grow up with social media. My generation had to go to the elders. Now it’s up to me to reach out to young people and understand the codes. I have a lot of education to do. If I arrived late, I didn’t play. Now we have to explain to them. Young people today have a lot more information than we did back then… “. An approach that could be the key to his success at the head of the Bleuets.
