Booed Capello Has Foreseen England Failure Before the World Cup Began
Both England coach and players have been booed by Chelsea and United’s fans on Sunday’s Community Shield final at Wembley Stadium. Players like Lampard, Rooney, Ashley Cole and Wayne Rooney have been dished out by all the supporters came to London. It seems that England’s shameful exit from the World Cup tournament in South Africa couldn’t be forgotten that soon by the fans as national team coach, Italian Fabio Capello even apologized the playing his team had in Africa where they have barely reached the round of 16 phase to go home earlier than expected. However, it remains to be followed if the fans will behave the same way they did yesterday on Wednesday’s when England will play a friendly match against Hungary.
Furthermore, Capello put world cup failure on players’ exhaustion who came in South Africa very tired and down minded. He said: “We played the last game in March and the players were in a good situation. But when we played the friendly games before the World Cup, the players were not in the same situation that they were in March. They were not the same, physically, like before. We knew the situation before the World Cup. I spoke with my staff but I could not come out and say this because psychologically it is not good for the players. When we started to play I could understand when we were tired: in the games against Mexico and Japan. Even in the last friendly game in South Africa. The level of the games were always the same and I was worried.”
“We tried to do everything. I spoke with the doctors and physios to improve the situation but South Africa was a mentality problem.” The Italian also claimed that if he would have been sacked by the English FA, he would have understood the decision and left: “I prefer to stay but if the FA decided to sack me, I would have understood it. I spoke a lot about the situation but I am a fighter and I never stop in my career. I am always looking forward. I thought about different solutions and after I spoke with Sir Dave [Richards, chairman of Club England] I decided to stay because I want to improve and play at the Euros. It will be very important for me.”
Finally, he apologized the way the national team performed: “I want to say sorry to the fans who joined us in South Africa. I know they spent a lot of time and money. It’s possible they will boo on Wednesday but we need support. We have to look forward now to the Euro qualification.” England left the world cup due to an embarrassing defeat against Germany, Loew’s side beating the English with 4-1.
