"I really don't know what the English football team in the previous life thought, actually letting such a slow-responsive guy replace Eriksen as the head coach of the national team." After the game, when Tottenham players celebrated their victory on the court, George He glanced at the lost McLaren not far away and cursed secretly. For this compatriot, George can be said to be not optimistic about his prospects as a head coach at all.
Although Middlesbrough in the previous life reached the UEFA Cup final in the 2005-06 season under the leadership of McLaren, they were beaten 0-4 by Sevilla in the final, which made English football Losing face.
Even a head coach of Juande Ramos' level cannot be dealt with. The Football Association actually hired him as the head coach of the Three Lions after Eriksen resigned. George really felt that these officials made this decision. Absolutely no brainer - even if you ask the old Redknapp or Allardyce to coach, it is much better than letting McLaren take the stage!
Not to mention, coaching the national team is different from coaching the club. There is a considerable difference between the two. Due to the limited training time, it is difficult for international players from different clubs to cooperate as well as when they play in the club. Therefore, for most national team coaches, how to integrate a team with insufficient tacit understanding in the shortest possible time? Maximizing combat power is the focus of their work!
How about using Manchester United's Class 92 members as the backbone and tactical core of the national team like Eriksen, first ensuring the team's lower limit and his own control over the national team, and then on this basis, using other stars to enrich the flesh and blood to improve the game. power; if not like Scolari, Lippi and Rehagel, who use strict tactical discipline and superb personal charm to twist everyone into a rope, so that the players are willing to work together for a certain goal; then If that doesn't work, you can also choose to determine the core lineup at the beginning of taking office, and build a good relationship with them in the subsequent period, so that the team can follow the guidance, such as former England coach Venables and former France coach Le Maire. .
McLaren, however, did none of the above. After Eriksson, who had been in charge of the Three Lions for five years, left, and veterans such as Gary Neville and Sol Campbell faded out one after another, he dismissed the national team captain and also the England team captain on the grounds of "reform". Beckham, who has the most experience and prestige in the competition, tried to use this to establish his prestige, but unexpectedly it caused a series of problems. The team even struggled in the European Cup qualifiers, which ultimately led to England, which was full of stars, missing out on 08 European Cup!
Perhaps McLaren thought he could become England's Jacquet, capable of copying the other side's successful experience to England. However, this mediocre coach has forgotten the most important point, which is that Jacquet has established Zidane's absolute core position from the day he took office, abandoning all players who might compete with Zidane for the core position. . And what about McLaren? Until he was fired by the FA, he failed to find a Zidane-like core for the England team. Instead, he completely lost everything that Eriksen left behind!
In this game, McLaren's on-the-spot command problems and lack of tactical changes that were always slower than others were once again exposed by George in front of everyone. With many well-known stars such as Viduka, Hasselbaink, Downing, Parlor and Southgate, McLaren did not choose to take advantage of his own physical strength and use Downing and Parlor. Er's wing breakthrough combined with the two centers to forcefully attack Tottenham's goal. He did not choose to play steadily and seize Tottenham's eagerness to regain the top spot in the standings from Chelsea, who had one game more to play, and launch a defensive counterattack. Instead, he foolishly Competed with Tottenham for midfield control!
In the current English football world, if Tottenham claims to be second in terms of its ability to control the midfield, then absolutely no one would dare to claim to be first. Not to mention Manchester United, which has not yet completed its technical transformation, and Chelsea, which focuses on counterattacks. Even Benitez's Liverpool and Wenger's Arsenal are definitely not Tottenham Hotspur in this regard. opponent!
Using one's own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strong points, but being completely suppressed by the opponent and unable to come up with a countermeasure, how could Middlesbrough remain undefeated?
"I hope the mentally retarded people in the Football Association can wake up and find a head coach with a higher level to take over the national team. Instead of having to choose Eriksen from among the English coaches for the sake of unnecessary self-esteem and arrogance and xenophobia. The successor." At this moment, George can only wishfully believe that after witnessing McLaren's poor performance against Tottenham in Middlesbrough, the Football Association in this life will not appoint this incompetent person again. The cheater who has been exposed has become the head coach of the England national team!
Although the rise of the Premier League is getting stronger and stronger, and there is a faint tendency to become the world's number one football league, compared with several other football powers, the overall level of English local coaches is indeed much worse. Therefore, in George's view, instead of finding a local coach with a low level to coach the national team, it is better to hire a famous coach to take charge!
In fact, George is the only foreign coach who has coached the Three Lions in his previous life. Eriksen and Capello have done quite well in this position. Both of them took over a mess from their predecessors, and relied on their personal abilities to turn the England team with obvious shortcomings into a favorite to win the championship, not just the "strongest in history" that only exists in the British media!
The reason why Capello encountered Waterloo in the World Cup in South Africa in his previous life was largely because Terry, who was the core of the defense of the Three Lions at that time, exposed the "Friends' Wife scandal". The outbreak of this incident directly caused the England national team, which was already on the right track, to lose its morale and lack of fighting spirit in an instant. In the end, it was bloodbathed by the Germans 4-1 in the quarter-finals of the World Cup.
By the time of the 2012 European Cup, the national team finally found peace, but the FA jumped out to cause trouble again. Terry was unilaterally deprived of the captain's armband without communicating with Capello, causing the latter to resign in anger, and England, which was once again in chaos, unfortunately ended up in the quarterfinals of the European Cup!
In terms of team leadership performance, Capello and Eriksen are actually not much worse than their predecessors, and even better than many of them (such as McLaren, Kevin Keegan, Graham Taylor, etc.) He performed much better, but because he was not British, he attracted more criticism and accusations from the media and fans. Not to mention, their arrival also injected football concepts from the European continent into the conservative England national team, preventing the Three Lions from being completely out of touch with the mainstream football world!
Although the Premier League is in full swing, Premier League teams are also trying their best to absorb technical and tactical knowledge from the European continent, but these have nothing to do with the Football Association. In the English national team, which belongs to the Football Association, the voice of adhering to tradition, that is, long passes, high kicks and high kicks, has always been extremely powerful. Those old-fashioned people who are immersed in the glory of the past are stuck in their own ways. They cannot recognize the development trend of modern football at all and refuse to make any form of reform. At the same time, their vision in selecting coaches is extremely poor, which makes many stars unable to play their true role in the national team. level!
Therefore, after the "Chiefsgate" incident, how to secretly intervene in the Football Association's coaching decision-making and prevent these stupid idiots from selecting an incompetent coach to become Eriksen's successor naturally became George's role in the decision-making process. The top priority when mentioning the national team!
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