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Alex Mirabal: "We're Teachers, Not Coaches"

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Alex Mirabal met with the VIQTORY Football Coaching Podcast to go in depth on his coaching philosophies. A transcript of the interview is below:

VIQTORY Coaching: All right, we have Coach Alex Mirabal with us. Coach, a fun fact I found out about you: you and Coach Cristobal were teammates in high school. Is that correct?

Alex Mirabal: Yeah. We became teammates in 1984 at Christopher Columbus High School and played four years together there. And now, what, 38, 39 years later...

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ageezy said:
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This was recorded a year ago, based on the timeline of the players Alex discusses, but just released. I'm guessing the interview was too in depth about the OL strategies? And that had to hold it a year?
 
bkcane said:
This was recorded a year ago, based on the timeline of the players Alex discusses, but just released. I'm guessing the interview was too in depth about the OL strategies? And that had to hold it a year?
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This was released last year. May have been reuploaded.
 
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He's a great teacher/coach. One of those rare guys that is able to maximizes his players' ability and minimizing their flaws, while also making them overall better football players.
 
Yeah, after reading this, not worried about O-line. This man is an oline machine but breaks it down for even us to understand.
 
I forgot which one of the many legendary players on Barcelona FC it was who was looking into getting into coaching post-retirement. But he asked one of his legendary coaches tips on excelling in the profession, to which he was advised to coach very young kids, preferably under 10 years of age, because he will learn how to teach and have patience as well. Thought of this as I was reading this wonderful interview.
 
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