Soccer is a team game and we have been told nth times ---leave strategy to coach damn it and skipper is meant to sweat it out in the middle along with 10 of his brethrens (with 10 sisters if you are Birgit Prinz ). ooh you need a pekerman to spoil the game and sorin just haplessely finds Klose scoring one of those dreaded header past the goal(Argentina lost it out in 79th minute, and pekerman couldn't name another dog of his , germany. he has 3 dogs named qatar , argentina and malaysia as he coached 3 argentinine sides to podium in 3 youth world cups.).
for that matter Becky can do nothing but shed tears and onus is on sweedish coach, Ericsson to come up with unconquerable strategy.
I am sorry i still don't buy this idea. I had the same argument going in an earlier blog of mine, hunt for a nanny for men in blue and i still vouch for it. if you don't have a motivational skipper you are doomed. Coaches can gesticulate and pretty wildly too but all in vain if that man proudly flaunting armband doesn't lead the pack. Juergen Klinsmann was adored all the way , but remember Ballack wasn't a mute spectator.
I was a happy soul when i knew paper tigers(pommies) have gone for a change in captain and coach. who the captain is? yeah John Terry it is. Becky was not the one cut out for the job. He can still bend and he can still juggle around, but he can't motivate and push youngters to go for the kill. Terry , yeah he can.
I have seen Terry captaining Chelsea and quite efficiently too. oh yeah i envy Chelsea , yeah i love to hate them as my favs ManU are never seen to be in hunt.
Chelsea is very systemetic , sometimes agonisingly systemetic and they kill the competition with deftness of a surgeon, where is the individual brilliance mate i howl, but at the end of day winners are revered. and winner they are. Mourinho and Terry together have coverted hopeless ones into bunch of invincible ones.
I never believed defenders could be excellent skipper material , but Terry has proved it otherwise. ok Kaiser was also more of a defender too. JT is a great CB and i can remember his shirt no. being 26 as he wanted to be one better than chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola ( who wore no. 25). pretty opposite to shirt no. 23 funda of basketball legend MJ(Jordan). Legend has his no. was 23 as he believed he was half as good as his bro wearing no. 45. 2 much gyan , hey again i end up on other side of road. Terry has earned a reputation as a tough, committed, no-nonsense defender and an excellent leader on the pitch. In addition, he offers an attacking threat at set-pieces pretty much la carlos only a lot more regularly and without compromising on defence.
Way to go JT, i would love to see you winning laurels for poms and eh i hope paper tigers start delivering a lil more often. wen u have team of high quality players Gerrard, Frank Lamapard and Rooney 2 name few, not mentioning Coles and owens is a sin big enuough, n still not reaching semis of a world cup for last 16 years leave me flabbergasted. Ah should i mention i yearn for them being pitted against their bete noire(fawkland rivals), no match comes as big as Eng-Arg, and i have my own biases. I won't mind Terry carrying the day for poms , skippers are expected to carry em any way and Terry have shoulders broad enough to carry his nation's hopes .
JT do it for poms , come Jo'berg 2010, and your holding WC trophy aloft would quite be a picture. Wembley 1966 has long been forgotten , give an englishman a moment to savour.
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