Drive and Winning Mentality

Beckham on Capello's arrival:

"It's an exciting time for English football and it's special to have someone of his pedigree in charge of the team...It has been tough recently but Capello is someone who has lots of drive and winning mentality...I was lucky enough to play under him and I know him as a person and as a manager and there are not many people as driven as him."

Hmm...drive...winning mentality...what do those things mean if Capello brings that to the table? That they are absent in the English, in English football players, managers, people? So what do I think? What are the cliches? That the English are noble and brave. That, yes, perhaps they don't have the drive, the winning mentality of the great Italian manager, Capello. And what does that mean further. Well...and I have said this in the past...that the English have failed because they are too "good" and too romantic. They have for too long believed that their pedigree and nobility would carry the day. And yet today Capello has a football "pedigree" that has won championships. And pedigree today might mean that Grosso goes down rather easily against Australia and Materazzi goads a God into a red...and Italia wins a fourth, FOURTH!, World Cup. To England's one.

Winning is beautiful? I just don't know. I just don't know.

Fair England...

Brave England...

Good England...



Source > 29.01.2008