It was a good team that reached a few quarterfinals in an era when other national teams were on the same level, and few were even better. Just remember that Brazil had Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, and Ronaldo at the time.
I’d say England slightly underachieved, but the media has blown this out of proportion. There were some unlucky moments, too, but that’s part of knockout tournaments.
Being a great player does not necessarily mean you have the tools to be a great manager. Most great managers were bang average as players, or subpar. Coaching & management is about clearly conveying your messages to players. The great players can seldom relate to the average player. Thierry Henry was known to get frustrated with his players because they did not have half of his technical ability.
Just because you are technically good at football doesn’t make you a good coach/manager.
That and they all somehow blagged silly jobs very early into their managerial careers, having not really earned top level jobs
98 and 2002 had the best balanced teams since 90 World Cup. Hoddle was a terrible manager but England had a damn good squad then.
2002 was a weaker World Cup and they could have beat Brazil but played scared after they took the lead. Also Ronaldinho’s great/fluke free kick was the decider
To be fair, Gerrard had an invincible season with Rangers.
It went downhill rapidly though afterwards (like a cliff).
How many from Spain’s golden generation are elite managers? Or Germany’s? Or Brazil’s? Or Argentina’s?
The answer is simple – being a good footballer, i.e – athlete – does not make you a good tactician, strategist, coach, people-manager, talent scout, or any other attribute associated with football management.
Lack of managerial experience. Giving these guys top jobs is crazy tbh.
Great players almost never make great managers- unless they are immediately given players as talented as they were to work with. They simply don’t know how to coach what came so effortlessly to them during their playing days. Chances are even incredibly successful former players come managers like Pep and Zidane would have crashed and burned like Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard ect…if they weren’t working with incredible talent from the outset.
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Golden generation that doesn’t earn anything😂
It was a good team that reached a few quarterfinals in an era when other national teams were on the same level, and few were even better. Just remember that Brazil had Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, and Ronaldo at the time.
I’d say England slightly underachieved, but the media has blown this out of proportion. There were some unlucky moments, too, but that’s part of knockout tournaments.
Being a great player does not necessarily mean you have the tools to be a great manager. Most great managers were bang average as players, or subpar. Coaching & management is about clearly conveying your messages to players. The great players can seldom relate to the average player. Thierry Henry was known to get frustrated with his players because they did not have half of his technical ability.
Just because you are technically good at football doesn’t make you a good coach/manager.
That and they all somehow blagged silly jobs very early into their managerial careers, having not really earned top level jobs
98 and 2002 had the best balanced teams since 90 World Cup. Hoddle was a terrible manager but England had a damn good squad then.
2002 was a weaker World Cup and they could have beat Brazil but played scared after they took the lead. Also Ronaldinho’s great/fluke free kick was the decider
To be fair, Gerrard had an invincible season with Rangers.
It went downhill rapidly though afterwards (like a cliff).
How many from Spain’s golden generation are elite managers? Or Germany’s? Or Brazil’s? Or Argentina’s?
The answer is simple – being a good footballer, i.e – athlete – does not make you a good tactician, strategist, coach, people-manager, talent scout, or any other attribute associated with football management.
Lack of managerial experience. Giving these guys top jobs is crazy tbh.
Great players almost never make great managers- unless they are immediately given players as talented as they were to work with. They simply don’t know how to coach what came so effortlessly to them during their playing days. Chances are even incredibly successful former players come managers like Pep and Zidane would have crashed and burned like Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard ect…if they weren’t working with incredible talent from the outset.