Chapter 418: Thoughts on the National Team

"I really don't know what the English football team always thought in the previous life, and actually let such a slow guy replace Eriksen as the head coach of the national team. After the game, when the Tottenham players were celebrating their victory on the field, George glanced at McLaren, who was lost not far away, and secretly cursed. For the compatriot, George can be said to be not at all optimistic about the other party's prospects as a head coach.

Although Middlesbrough reached the final of the UEFA Cup in the 05-06 season under the leadership of McLaren, they were cleanly beaten by Sevilla in the final 0-4, which made English football lose face.

Even a manager of the caliber of Juande Ramos can't handle it, and the FA would hire Eriksen as the Three Lions manager after his departure, George really feels that these officials have absolutely no brains when making this decision - even if it is to have the old Redknapp or Allardyce coach, it is much better than to put McLaren on the stage!

Not to mention, there is quite a big difference between coaching a national team and coaching a club. Due to the limited training time, it is difficult for international players from different clubs to play as well as when they play in clubs, so for most national team coaches, how to integrate a team with insufficient tacit understanding in the shortest possible time is the focus of their work!

If it weren't like Eriksen, who used Manchester United's Class of 92 as the backbone and tactical core of the national team, first ensured the team's lower limit and his own control of the national team, and then used other stars to enrich the flesh and blood to improve the combat power; Like Rehhagel, Lippi uses strict tactical discipline and great charisma to bring everyone together and make the players willingly work together for a certain goal, or if it is not good, he can also choose to determine the core squad at the beginning of his tenure and build a good relationship with them in the following time, so that the team can follow, such as former England coach Venables and former France coach Le Maire.

McLaren, however, did not take any of these approaches. After the departure of Eriksen, who has been in charge of the Three Lions for five years, and the retirement of veterans such as Gary Neville and Saul Campbell, he dismissed the captain of the national team on the grounds of "reform", and Beckham, who is also the most experienced and prestigious in the England team, in an attempt to establish his prestige, but unexpectedly it caused a series of problems, and the team struggled in the European Championship qualifiers, which eventually led to the star-studded England missing the 08 Euro Cup!

Perhaps McLaren thought he could be England's Jacques and had the ability to replicate the success of the other side to England. However, the mediocre coach has forgotten the most important point, which is that Jacques has established Zidane's absolute core position from the day he took office, and has abandoned all players who could compete with Zizou for a central position. And what about McLaren? Until he was sacked by the FA, he didn't find a Zidane-like core for the England team, but lost all the things that Eriksen left behind!

In this game, McLaren's on-the-spot command problems and lack of tactical changes were once again revealed by George in front of everyone's eyes. With a number of well-known stars such as Viduka, Hasselbaink, Downing, Parlour and Southgate, McClaren did not choose to give full play to his physical advantages, using the wide breakthroughs of Downing and Parlour with two central strikers to force the Tottenham goal, nor did he choose to play steadily and seize Tottenham's eagerness to regain the top spot in the standings from Chelsea with one more game to fight back the psychological counterattack, but stupidly competed with Tottenham for control of the midfield!

In the current English football world, if Tottenham claims to be second in terms of control of the midfield, then absolutely no one dares to say first. Not to mention Manchester United, which has not yet completed the technical transformation, and Chelsea, who focus on defense and counter-attack, even Benitez's Liverpool and Arsene Wenger's Arsenal are by no means the opponents of Tottenham Hotspur in this area!

Attacking the enemy's strengths with his own shortcomings, and being completely suppressed by the opponent and unable to come up with a countermeasure, how can Middlesbrough be undefeated?

"Hopefully the FA's mentally retarded minds will come to their senses and find a manager with a higher level to take over the national team. Instead of needless pride and arrogance in the bones, it is necessary to choose Eriksen's successor from the English coach. At this moment, George can only wishfully believe that after witnessing McLaren's poor performance against Tottenham Hotspur at Middlesbrough, the FA of this life should not appoint this underachiever and more than enough to be 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 trend of becoming the world's number one football league, the overall level of coaches in England is indeed much worse than that of several other football powers. Therefore, in George's opinion, instead of pulling out the big one among the short and finding a local coach with a low level to coach the national team, it is better to ask a famous coach to take charge!

In fact, George was the only two foreign managers in his previous life to have managed the Three Lions, with Christian Eriksen and Fabio Capello both doing quite well in that position. Both of them took over a mess from their predecessors, and they turned the England team with obvious shortcomings into a championship favorite by virtue of their individual ability, not just the "strongest in history" that only exists in the mouth of the British media!

The reason why Capello suffered Waterloo in the World Cup in South Africa in his previous life was largely because Terry, who was the core of the Three Lions' defense at the time, broke out the "Friends Wife" incident. The outbreak of this incident directly caused the England national team, which was already on the right track, to be discouraged in an instant, and finally was bloodied by the Germans 4-1 in the quarterfinals of the World Cup.

By the time of Euro 2012, the national team had a hard time calming down, but the FA jumped out to make trouble again. Unilaterally stripped John Terry of the captain's armband without communicating with Capello, causing the latter to resign in anger, and England, once again in chaos, finally regrettably stopped in the quarterfinals of the European Championship!

In terms of team results, Capello and Eriksen are not much worse than their predecessors, and even much better than many of them (such as McLaren, Kevin Keegan, Graham Taylor, etc.), but they have attracted more criticism and accusations from the media and fans because they are not British. Not to mention, their arrival has also injected the old-fashioned England national team with football concepts from the European continent, avoiding the Three Lions from being completely out of touch with the mainstream football world!

Don't look at the Premier League in full swing, the Premier League teams are also trying to absorb the technical and tactical knowledge of the European continent, but these have nothing to do with the FA penny. In the England national team, which belongs to the FA, the sound of sticking to the tradition, that is, the long pass rushing and lifting high has always been extremely powerful. Those who are immersed in the glory of the past are old-fashioned and complacent, who simply do not recognize the development trend of modern football, refuse to make any form of reform, and at the same time are so bad in the selection of coaches that many stars cannot play at the real level of the national team!

Therefore, after the "Chiefgate" incident, how to secretly interfere in the FA's coach selection decision, and prevent these idiots with holes in their brains from choosing a coach with insufficient ability to become Eriksen's successor, has naturally become George's top priority when mentioning the national team!

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