Golden Soft Sombrero Moment with Joyce Brown

Four Diegos profile:               

Former Australian Netball Captain and World renowned coach, Australian Rules commentator and master motivator          

Diegos Verdict:                       

I’m sure Joyce can coach the 4-4-2 Frankie. Just a thought.

Some Golden Soft Sombrero Moments with Joyce Brown

Brown on great players…

Diegos: “In soccer all over the world, the match winners the truly great players that can thrill crowds by doing the unexpected also tend to be the most temperamental. Of course we are talking about the likes of Maradona, Cantona and Gascoigne.

Is this trait also true with top female athletes or is it simply a macho man, testosterone thing?”

Brown: “I think that the match winners, the one’s that can turn a game and read the moment of a game and know when to do the right thing whether it be to co-operate a bit better, to totally challenge that moment or be fully competitive for the ball, are sometimes the one’s who think a little differently from the rest.

I don’t think that they’re as outlandish as the athletes in the very big professional sports. At that level I think that they are pampered to and they begin to lose the roots that reach into the clay which for normal people having your feet on the ground.

With the group that I work with, yes they have a different way of thinking and you’ve got to allow them a little bit of flair. Everyone is so different. You must have in a team a good mixture of those who do it steadily and do their basics extremely well and then you’ll have those who’ll do the extraordinary and change the moment of a game.”

Soft Sombrero Moment 1996

Brown on a change of Socceroo coach…

Diegos: “After six year at the helm Socceroo coach, Eddie Thomson walked away from the job this week.

After such a long time in charge of the team what effect do you think his leaving will have on the players who have played under him for so long?”

Brown: “I don’t know the soccer world like you Diegos do but you’re assuming all of those people in the team are tied to him emotionally and rely on him.

Maybe they don’t. Maybe there comes a time in every sportspersons life, be it Aussie Rules or soccer or netball, were they need a change they need to be challenged to think differently.

Some of them can fall into a comfort zone and I think a change can be very good.

I think with coaching four years is about it.

Someone like Kevin Sheedy is an exception because he’s been able to change the personnel around him regularly and he has evolved in the way he thinks as he has become more experienced.

He is a different thinker now to what he was when he first started.”

Soft Sombrero Moment 1996