Paul Watson
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I enjoy it tremendously.
Give us a couple then.
So we've got Ibis, the club in Brazil, who labeled themselves the worst in the world.
And now their fans get on the back of the team if they win any games.
So if you ever see Ibis win a game, their fans post on social media going, this is a disgrace.
And at one point they got on a winning run and their fans, the ultras, called a meeting with the players and said, this has to stop.
We're winning too many matches.
And they had this old hero, this legendary old player called Mauro Shampoo, which sadly isn't his real name, but he was a hairdresser and a player.
And Shampoo came to meet with the players and said, yeah, you've got to stop winning.
You're destroying the legacy we created as players.
So there's that one.
One of my favourite stories in the book is when the Seychelles national team accidentally appointed a guy on holiday as their national coach.
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It was a case of mistaken identity.
A guy called Andrew Amos Morrison, who was a football coach, but he was a kind of community coach.
Very good coach, but just a community coach, was there on holiday.
The Seychelles Football Federation thought it was Andy Morrison, the Man City player.
So they just offered him their national job on the spot.
And Andy Morrison, the Man City player, only found out because a journalist from Seychelles phoned him up.
And he was, I think, somewhere in Wales at the time, phoned him up and said, what are your plans for the Seychelles national team?