At 47, a decade after his retirement as a footballer, Thierry Henry still has time to become a high -level coach. After the defeat in the final against Spain (3-5, AP) at the Parc des Princes during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games football tournament, for a silver medal to the key, the 98 world champion left his post as coach of the French Hopes team on August 19. The European season had just started, so he returned to his London home, resuming his job as a TV consultant on CBS.
Thierry Henry would have made an excellent coach of the Belgian national team at the 2026 World Cup in North America, the former deputy of Roberto Martinez in the last two World Cup in the Red Devils staff. Some Belgian executives had also pushed for the legend of Arsenal before the Belgian federation chose Rudi Garcia, a coach who knows how to sell perfectly while he remains on several failures (it ended badly at OM, OL and Al-Nassr and it did not take at all at Napoli).
Thierry Henry “Totally uncompromising”
In any case, the native of the ULIS remains on a 12 -month -out experience conclusive among the hopes. Gérald Batic, his former assistant among the Blueberries who has become his successor, praises the work of Thierry Henry in the columns of The team:: “It's very high level, I would have a lot to say. But if I have to put something forward, it is its management, the implementation of the rules of life. A very simple setting, but no one came out of this framework. It was minimalist, but he was totally uncompromising ”. The former coach of AS Monaco and the impact of Montreal will appreciate.
Marked by his two years under the orders of the genius Pep Guardiola at Barça, Thierry Henry does not only impose an offensive style of play. This is a whole ” project “ that he set up, “A method in place, to see game, values, and have results”with his assistants Gérald Batic and Gaël Clichy. Upon departure, the second top scorer in the history of the French team thus proposed to Philippe Diallo, the president of the FFF, to appoint Baticle coach. “It touched me because it is a mark of confidence and it is a recognition in relation to the work that we provided together”reacts the former coach of Brest and Angers in The team.
