Sheva0172
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So now versatile jack of all trade players are bad? I mean carrick and Barry are no Maurice Edu, but they are good midfielders.
Calum why do you dislike senna
4-4-2 with 2 flying wingers will NOT work in football outside EPL. 2 CMs just doesn't work. you get overwhelmed with possession.
I always got feeling capello went for the 3/4 CM midfield to try and IMPOSE more possession for that reason, and still didn't work. Sadly the 4 he choose would have lent perfectly for the ancelotti diamond
gerrard
lampard----milner
barry
Anyway you can quib about midfield or attack but IMO..... All englands problems r tied to backline. You could see from moment Rio Ferdinand went down they looked worse and worse. If tourney was in 2009, they might have been serious contenders...
Ill also blame the terry fiasco. It's sad but true, england really never looked confident. Weird cause i thought they'd pull it together but while other national teams rally together with england there was a big 'i don't give a shit' attitude. Am i only one who saw that? Just didn't see passion you see with say.... south american sides
Regardless I think the problem is pretty obvious. There are currently less domestic players in the EPL than in any other league. Furthermore Arsenal, Man U and every other EPL club are filling their youth academies up with non-English players pushing out English players, since the clubs, unlike Italian clubs, are allowed to sign players under 18. The talent pool is just to small for a country that want to win competitions. This is reflected in the fact that the starting 11 might be decent enough, but there's really not that much beyond that. It's not like Capello let players in the mold of Cassano or Balotelli stay him like Lippi did.
Yeah, maybe they can't train at your training ground. But you could give him a schedule and make him do it.
You can't make them do it. You can ask them, but you have no way of knowing what they're doing really. Clubs aren't allowed to give them official training over a certain amount a day.
You'll learn a lot more being trained by quality coaches for a big club than playing heads and volley's in the park.
South America disagrees with you.
I think the over-organization in Europe is becoming a bit of a problem
I've stayed out of this thread 'cause I don't want to be a dick, but this video was just too good. The guy who appears around 58 seconds:
http://www.bild.de/BILD/video/clip/sport/wm-2010/wm-newscase/wm-news/2010/06/27/fans-suedafrika.html
I've stayed out of this thread 'cause I don't want to be a dick, but this video was just too good. The guy who appears around 58 seconds:
http://www.bild.de/BILD/video/clip/sport/wm-2010/wm-newscase/wm-news/2010/06/27/fans-suedafrika.html
It would be nice to think that we are the golden generation rather than the footballers
Graeme Swann isn't shy about voicing his opinion after England beat Australia to win the NatWest series while the footballers lost to Germany in the World Cup
Roy Keane telling it like it is:
Interviewed 2 days ago...