Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

[whitesocks]

People don't just get ill.
There's an accumulation over time of resistance, stress, inflammation and then dis-ease.
...

You'd think footballers would have above average long healthy lives, as they are the fittest of us, generally. But I don't think that turns out to be true. Many players are taking anti-inflammatories and pain killers towards the end of their careers - probably for their joint injuries mainly. And these will inflame and stress their whole cardio/vascular system for the rest of their lives.

I don't know if rages are as closely related to heart attacks/strokes as we were once taught. Some people thrive off them and sleep like babies. Like women...
Anyway there is nothing we know to link this to gall bladder infections or whatever the issue was. Maybe it is diet related or just one of those things that can go wrong as we age - roll of the dice.

 

[SandroClegane]

He hasn't really been like that of late. He's looked a lot more subdued and not had those crazy celebrations possibly because of our form and maybe those lost ones. Lucky for him we haven't given him much to jump about over

Or maybe because he's been in pain with this gallbladder issue? I wonder when it actually started hurting him?

 

[mil1lion]

Or maybe because he's been in pain with this gallbladder issue? I wonder when it actually started hurting him?

Possibly the stress of the job

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

Possibly the stress of the job

Has to be a factor, it's no walk in the park managing in the PL let alone a club as stringent as ours.

Yes, I know there are massive financial benefits, but physically and psychologically we will never know the price managers pay in return.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

I didn't realise he had is surgery in Italy(he's still there obv). Makes sense, but one wonders when he will be back, supposedly deciding tomorrow about the Sunday game. Surely he wont already be flying back

Spurs press conference live with Stellini on Conte, Pedro Porro and injuries

The Tottenham Hotspur assistant boss is speaking to the media ahead of the Premier League match against Manchester City

www.football.london

 

[npearl4spurs]

I hope he gets doctor clearance to spend all the weeks of recovery he can in Italy with his wife and family. The man deserves it.

 

[allatsea]

Hoping he is feeling much better and without pain !

 

[SirHarryHotspur]

Wouldn't surprise me if Antonio is in the directors box on Sunday but I doubt he will join in with the Levy Out chants.
He has almost certainly had keyhole surgery , medics reckon you can get back to work in a week and him being a pretty fit person compared to a lot of us should think he will recover pretty quickly..

How quickly you recover depends on whether you had a laparoscopic or open surgery.

• For a laparoscopic surgery, most people can go back to work or their normal routine in 1 to 2 weeks. But it may take longer, depending on the type of work you do.

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

Lets just say - if he is in the stadium on Sunday - I don't want to hear another word about his commitment to this squad.

He may well go home at the end of the season, but he is fully committed to this team, right now. The fact that he is even considering being back in London is a little crazy.

I hope he is at the stadium, and hears all of the support he gets here.

 

[archiewasking]

I hope he stays in Italy until he's properly recovered. The game of football is nowhere near as important as people.

 

[mil1lion]

He wont want too, he'll want back asap.

 

[Mate]

I didn't realise he had is surgery in Italy(he's still there obv). Makes sense, but one wonders when he will be back, supposedly deciding tomorrow about the Sunday game. Surely he wont already be flying back

Spurs press conference live with Stellini on Conte, Pedro Porro and injuries

The Tottenham Hotspur assistant boss is speaking to the media ahead of the Premier League match against Manchester City

www.football.london

He might want to make the most of the his remaining sick days at full pay

Joking aside, if makes sense if he were to take a week out, then that way he's already in Italy for the Milan game. Think Stellini can steady the ship until then.

 

[IamSpurtacus]

What's a gall bladder?

It’s where an ancient French person stored their pee pee

 

[Lukasz]

Fucking baldhead, his antics are deteriorating Mr Conte’s health.

 

[knowlespurs]

Didn't realise we had so many medical experts in here that no what causes his stomach problems

 

[$hoguN]

Wish him a speedy recovery

 

[thehipster]

People don't just get ill.
There's an accumulation over time of resistance, stress, inflammation and then dis-ease.
And I know he's had other unfortunate and tragic events around him recently...but I really, really hope he reads between the lines, as this is life's way of providing very honest and direct feedback. The kind Antonio is used to giving out to others.
And the feedback reads...'you've got to adjust your mindset and the way you run things to become (and remain) a healthy individual'.
I would hope he then projects this on to his players...who I believe play under too much psychological pressure, permeating from the training ground and the conditions he makes them play under.
Passion, focus and clarity are essential.
Continuous anxiety and unnecessary levels of stress and pressure can make you ill (and have proven to increase injuries).
I really hope Antonio gets some perspective from the doctors around him regarding stress the impact it has on our bodies....and then uses that to great benefit in how he manages himself and the team moving forward.
Life is one big feedback system...and this is happening for a reason.
I wish him an excellent recovery.

To those that might be disputing the link between stress and health...and stress and injuries, there is mountain of evidence to prove otherwise.
Ongoing stress (both psychological and physiological) causes the body to move out of a state of effective efficiency...and into one of un-ease/dis-ease.
For anyone that is interested...

Painful truths: the physical impacts of emotional stress

Trevor Langford explores the physiological effects of stress, and the implications for athletes seeking to reduce pain and return to normal function.

www.sportsinjurybulletin.com

https://www.jcdr.net/articles/PDF/14702/45973_CE%5BRa1%5D_F%5BSK%5D_PF1(AG_SL)_PFA(KM)_PB(AG_KM)_PN(KM).pdf

An Interdisciplinary Examination of Stress and Injury Occurrence in Athletes

This paper adopts a novel, interdisciplinary approach to explore the relationship between stress-related psychosocial factors, physiological markers and occurrence of injury in athletes using a repeated measures prospective design. At four data collection ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Frontiers | The Association Between Stress and Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study Among 186 First-Year Contemporary Dance Students

<p>The demanding environment that contemporary dance students are exposed to could result in high stress levels, which can influence injury susceptibility. T...

www.frontiersin.org

https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/patient_care/fitness/ACSMissuesrelatedtoinjury.pdf

I am truly of the belief that the next 10 years in all sport will be remembered for the advancements in managing mental capacity and capability.
I'm not talking about regular psychologists (a certain style of education)...but about experts in mind management.
Many athletes will learn the ability to shift their perspective about life...and really expand their awareness about what is possible, removing the psychological walls that block their capability to hit the top.
Football always seems last to adapt, because it contains many old-school coaching styles...and indeed old-school coaches.
But there are a few younger coaches coming through with fresh perspective.

And we are seeing positive results of a shift in the dynamic from the likes of the English Cricket team.

For me....there is too much stress and anxiety in Antonio's set-up....and not enough player empowerment and freedom to play.

Just my opinion, of course. But based on many years of working in the field of psychology and human behaviour.
I would like Antonio to use this time away to assess whether he can be more flexible in his approach...and create more freedom and joy both in training and on the pitch.
To do so, he would need to relinquish some control (and obsessive thinking) and hand over more responsibility to the players.
In other words, let go a bit.
And in doing so...his overall health would improve, as would the health of the squad around him.

 

[Stamford]

Fuck the haters. ANTONIO!

 

[$hoguN]

Guarantee he has hurt himself watching that

 

[spurs mental]

The perfect Conte performance. More clinical in the final third and we could have had 3 or 4.

Antoniooooooo