Chapter 1405: Capello's Distress
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With more than three months to go before the start of the World Cup, it stands to reason that the national team managers have enough time to continue to look at the local players they are concerned about, and accordingly make further adjustments to the 23-man squad for the World Cup in Germany, and then recruit some players in better form into the national team, so that their teams can appear on the World Cup stage with the strongest posture.
Capello, however, has a different view. In the eyes of the world-renowned gold medal coach, such an approach is likely to disrupt the chemistry that the team struggled to develop during the World Cup qualifiers, and in turn cause unnecessary chaos in the dressing room and the team. Therefore, Capello's focus has always been on those players who are often recruited by him to the national team, and other players, although they are also slightly involved, are just Capello's alternates. Suffice it to say, unless something unexpected happens, these people simply won't have a chance to represent Italy at this year's World Cup.
The names of Vieri and Inzaghi were also included in this list by Capello. In other words, these two veterans who have made great achievements for Italy have not actually entered Capello's eyes. Compared to them, who are no longer in their prime, Tony and Gilardino are more likely to be valued by the gold medal coach than they are no longer in their prime, and their technical styles are similar to those of the two.
However, the sudden outburst of the Great Inzaghi disrupted Capello's original plan. After a slump in the first half of the season, the veteran has been breaking out since February this year, scoring in all competitions, and the average number of goals per game in the last ten games of Pisa has even reached 1.7!
The most important thing is that there is no shortage of strong clubs in the team that fell under the guns of Inzaghi. For example, AC Milan, which just lost to Fiorentina in the league, originally with the intelligence of Ancelotti and the stability of Maldini and others, the Rossoneri who played at home would not have lost so miserably, but they were extremely unlucky to meet an in-form Inzaghi, making the name of Super Pippo resounding in international football again!
Moreover, Inzaghi has scored a lot of goals during this time, and most of his goals have come as a substitute. This means that even if Capello puts Inzaghi on the bench, he can still pose a great threat to opponents - after all, Inzaghi, who already has a faint "super sub" attribute in this regard, has a greater advantage than those strikers who don't score once they sit on the bench.
It seems that in order to bring out the excellence and excellence of Inzaghi, several of Inzaghi's competitors in the national team have invariably begun to fall into a trough during his explosion: Gilardino, who joined AC Milan with a high profile last summer, suffered a long goal drought after the winter break, and now he has come out of it, but his performance has been up and down; Cassano left Spain after falling out with the Club of Rome and is now spending time on the bench of the Galacticos; Although Di Natale has been as solid as ever, he is more of a tactical supplement to the team, and his position with Inzaghi is somewhat conflicting but not obvious.
Not to mention the likes of Tawano and Iaquinta, Capello just wanted them to play a blue-collar role and create opportunities for other teammates to pull space, and he didn't want them to take on much scoring at all, and his position didn't overlap with Inzaghi's position at all.
He has a lot of experience in the game, he can score goals on the field, he is not soft against strong teams, and his attitude towards the game is extremely good...... Taken together, these strengths make it natural for Inzaghi to be much more reliable than other homegrown strikers other than Milito and Toney.
Whether to stick to his own opinion and select players according to the original plan, or to follow the will of the people and let Inzaghi return to the national team according to the condition of the players, even a manager like Capello, who will never easily waver in his thoughts, will inevitably hesitate at this time. After all, Inzaghi's excellent performances during this period have made his call for a return to the national team even louder, and Capello simply can't choose to ignore it. Especially after Gilardino and others showed a little sign of weakness in the face of strong teams, this call was even stronger.
It is inevitable that this will happen. Despite winning almost every trophy he can win at club level, Capello is still a newcomer with no accolades at national level. The gold-medal coach was able to take control of the team quickly after taking over from Trapattoni mainly because of the friendships he had with the internationals during his time at Fiorentina and Roma. Otherwise, it will be difficult for Capello to make his players completely follow his orders and arrangements.
Therefore, the better Inzaghi plays at the club, the more distressed Capello naturally becomes. Because he knows that if he resolutely rejects Inzaghi in this situation, it will not be long before the Fiorentina family will become dissatisfied with it, and thus shake the foundation of Capello's dominance in the national team.
So, after much hesitation, Capello finally made a decision and took the opportunity of the new national team training camp to find Nesta in his office: "Alejandro (Nesta), I plan to let Inzaghi re-enter the squad during the next national team training camp. So, I hope you can say hello to him in advance and ask him if he would like to continue to serve his country. ”
The reason why Capello did not mention the return of Vieri to the national team is partly because Vieri has not scored many goals this season, and the presence of Toney and Milito has squeezed his living space, making it difficult for Vieri to return to the national team.
On the other hand, and more importantly, Vieri was unfortunately injured in training after seemingly desperately trying to get a chance to play in the World Cup. According to the diagnosis given by the physiotherapy center, Vieri, who suffered damage to both knee and ankle ligaments, will not be able to play again until at least August this year. This means Vieri is destined to miss this summer's World Cup in Germany.
With Vieri already confirmed for the season, Capello naturally has no reason to re-recruit him into the national team, unless he wants to be drowned in the saliva of the media and fans.