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UEFA European Championship 2021

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RE: UEFA European Championship 2021
(19-06-2021 10:31 )Sm© Wrote:  Do you really expect players on 6 figure weekly salaries to give 100% for their countries for a 2 grand appearance fee? No, they dont't want to get injured and lose their first team club position.

Possibly a little extreme — I’m sure they still see an England cap as an honour. But it’s clearly not the same here as it is on the continent of in Latin America.

I remember some post-tournament interview with Frank Lampard, where he mentioned that the England players in the Chelsea dressing room approached international breaks with a looming sense of dread. The European players were excited. For the Latin American players, national team games were the highlight of the year. He talked about lunchtime in the England squad: there was a Man United table, a Chelsea table, and a Liverpool table, etc..

TBF as a collective fan base, I think we encourage the players’ ambivalence to the England team. We are too hard on them when they play well and lose. We are too generous when they thump Montenegro by 7 goals.

And most important, we are just as guilty of putting our club loyalties over the national team. Why didn’t Man United fans turn on Paul Scholes when he ‘retired’ from international football? Liverpool and Newcastle fans didn’t boo Jamie Carragher or Alan Shearer when they chose to resign rather than sit on the England bench. When John Terry held that bullshit mutineer Press Conference in the 2010 World Cup, we Chelsea fans just folded it all into the ‘Captain, Leader, Legend’ mythology of the man. To my mind, THOSE are the prima donnas.

By contrast, my Italian friend, a lifetime Lazio supporter, never forgave Roberto Mancini for refusing international duty. And despite a string of great results, my friend still hates that they made Mancini the Italy coach.

That’s the kind of culture we need here — where the players value country over club because WE value country over club.
(This post was last modified: 19-06-2021 11:33 by Goodfella3041.)
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RE: UEFA European Championship 2021 - Goodfella3041 - 19-06-2021 11:29