Roberto Martinez
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I've been the technical director as well.
So that means that it's not just the games.
You've got a day-to-day.
We've been able to put a lot of projects in place for women's football, for the development of the young players.
And then it's all the professional game.
And that's been very interesting.
Belgium, for me, is an incredible example.
11 million people and they produce players just because they work together.
the federation, the league and almost all the schools, they work together in terms of developing the player in the same manner.
Then they speak three languages, which is incredible, the way that you change your mindset and you become a team player when you are so aware.
So it's been fascinating, but I'm based in Belgium, we live outside Brussels, we had a new arrival in the family, so surrounded by girls.
enjoying football and family time.
No, no.
But I think obviously our technical director moved to China and took a job in Chinese football.
And at that point, I felt that I was...
Being a head coach internationally is quite slow pace.
When you're used to managing a football club in the British game, you feel that you've got time to do it.
And then I think they felt the same way and we had probably the long term of
preparing the Euros and trying to take what we did in the World Cup and expand it through Belgium.
We've been working now with the way that we work in the national team with all the age groups, but being able to do it into all the professional clubs, the 24 professional clubs that we have.