Who at some point hasn’t received a corporate-wide memo that says ”Required Training”, or “Yearly Corporate Kick-Off Meeting: Must Attend”?  It’s usually held for several days somewhere very far away in a giant hotel, and breakfast meetings begin at 7am and networking sessions last late into the night.

It turns out FIFA World Cup 2010 coaches have to attend these things too.  Spain’s soccer head coach (above) Vicente Del Bosque arrives for several days of “required classes”.

England’s soccer coach Fabio Capello arrives for the FIFA pre-tournament workshop in Sun City.  

The Team Workshop is a crucial meeting for the head coaches, team managers and general secretaries and is a mandatory appointment for the official and technical specialists, including media officers, security managers and team doctors, according to FIFA’s website

Italy’s soccer coach Marcello Lippi.

France’s soccer coach Raymond Domenech.

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