5 Differences between International and Club Management

5) Minimal room for experimentation

It is tough to constantly experiment in international football unlike club football

While Jose Mourinho has reaped rewards from throwing in young guns like nobody’s business, international managers get fewer opportunities to develop young talent and experiment with their squad.

Matches are nearly always competitive and so throwing in inexperienced youngsters or players with few caps is incredibly risky. Meanwhile, international managers don’t have a long enough time span to work with their players and see physical improvements which club managers lay eyes on each week.

Defeat in any realm of football is despised and feared, but losing one league game has far less of an impact than losing the opener at a major competition, which ultimately leaves a team playing catch-up from the off.

National teams are expected to play a certain way and while Premier League football cries out for experimentation and young players being worked into a team, there is little time to tamper when carrying the burdening pressures that international management throws up.