Tihana Nemcic Ingin Diperlakukan Seperti Pelatih Pria
Tihana Nemcic Wants To Be Treated The Same As Male Trainers
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Parulian Manalu
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TIHANA Nemcic ingin diperlakukan sama seperti kepala pelatih lainnya. Nemcic, 24 tahun, mantan model paruh waktu, kini mendapat perhatian luas. Lantaran menjadi pelatih tim sepak bola pria di Kroasia, NK Viktorija Vojakovac yang berada di divisi kelima.
Nemcic, mantan pemain klub bola di Kroasia, lulus pada Juli lalu dari Sporting University. Sejak melatih di NK Viktorija Vojakovac, bahwa dirinya bertanggung jawab terhadap tim dan bukan jadi pusat perhatian media.
"Saya adalah pelatih kepala dan memiliki kebebasan penuh untuk membuat dan merencanakan taktik tim," kata Nemcic seperti dikutip Daily Mail.
"Jika seorang wanita dan seorang pria memiliki kualitas profesional yang sama untuk melatih, saya tidak melihat alasan mengapa saya tidak boleh masuk ke sepak bola pria."
Tim yang diasuhnya saat ini berada di peringkat dari klasemen liga dengan empat poin setelah satu kali menang, satu kali dan satu kali bermain seri.
Thomir Jagusic, salah satu pemain klub menggambarkan Nemcic sebagai "sangat baik, fokus dan serius selama pelatihan."
"Kami mendengarkan dia," kata Jagusic. "Dia sangat ketat di pelatihan."
Nemcic tertarik pada olahraga setelah dia terbiasa mengikuti pacarnya saat latihan.
"Saya sedang menonton dia bermain, bagaimana dia bermain... dan kemudian saya mulai bermain sendiri dan telah menjadi bagian dari saya hari ini."
Nemcic yang termasuk di antara 15 finalis Croatia Miss Sport pada 2008, tidak menghadapi tantangan khusus dalam pembinaan pesepakbola pria.
TIHANA Nemcic wants to be treated just like any other head coach. The 24-year-old, Nemcic, a former Croatia women´s international and part-time model, just happens to be getting more attention than usual.
That´s because she has taken over as coach of a Croatian men´s football team - fifth division side NK Viktorija Vojakovac.
Nemcic, a former club player in Croatia, graduated in July from the country´s Sporting University. Since taking over at NK Viktorija Vojakovac, she has asserted herself as the one in charge - not the center of a media stunt.
´I am the head coach and I have full liberty to create and plan the team´s tactics,´ Nemcic said. ´If a woman and a man have the same professional qualifications for a coaching job, I see no reason why I should not get into male football.´
The team is currently eighth in the 16-team league standings with four points after one win, one loss and one draw.
Tihomir Jagusic, one of of the club´s players, described Nemcic as ´very good, focused and serious during training´.
´We listen to her,´ Jagusic said. ´She is very strict at training.´
Nemcic got interested in the sport when she used to follow her boyfriend to training.
´I was watching him play, how he played... and then I started to play myself and it has become part of me to this very day,´ she said.
Nemcic, who was among 15 finalists for the beauty title of Croatia Miss Sport in 2008, does face a particular challenge in coaching the men.
