Juventus were later stripped of those titles as a result of bribing officials and selecting favourable referees. Ironically, Capello won the Serie A coach of the year award in Cassano was 10 times highly combustible than what Balotelli is today. The pair had frequent run-ins while they were at Roma and Real Madrid. After leading Real Madrid to the league title in , Capello was sacked and he took up the job as England national manager.
After a disappointing world cup campaign in , England qualified for Euro However, he was embroiled in a tussle with the English FA regarding John Terry and he resigned from his job. Who else made it to the list? Find out here: Top 10 managers. New User posted their first comment. Log in. Football Serie A Modified 07 Oct The 10 greatest attacking midfielders of all time.
There were other issues, too, such as the rigidness of his initial formation where packed opposition midfields were able to pass around his team, and the fear factor the team felt while performing at Wembley.
Then there was the issue of the captaincy, a problem which eventually led to his resignation. At the beginning his attitude to the armband was a refreshing one as he seemed to test the merits of Rio Ferdinand, Steven Gerrard and John Terry by swapping it between them in his first few fixtures. This added to a new-found competition among the squad. Having finally chosen Terry as his first-choice skipper, Capello appeared to have the golden touch when he selected Theo Walcott to face Croatia and the Arsenal winger scored a hat-trick as England earned a win in Zagreb which was the catalyst for their passage to South Africa.
A defeat by Ukraine was the only one of a stellar qualifying campaign in which Wayne Rooney was in fine form, Emile Heskey played his part and Gareth Barry restored an equilibrium to the midfield which had been lacking under the previous manager. But all that came to a crashing end in South Africa.
Regardless of Terry's off-field antics or Rooney's ankle injury, England were slugglish where they were previously slick. Against the United States, Algeria and Slovenia, England did not have the energy to press high up the pitch, and a formation made it difficult to find space against midfields which had two layers. Then there was the crushing second-round defeat by Germany which led to a unprecedented amount of criticism of England and the English game.
In the aftermath, Capello repeated the excuses of his predecessors. His team were too tired after a energy-sapping Premier League season. His trophy case is packed full of accolades. Which leads me to the question I have been asking week after week: why is this manager so good? The answer with Don Fabio is perhaps the most ephemeral of all the attributes I have been exploring. Respect from manager to player, from player to manager, from player to player, and respect for oneself.
He would argue with Maldini or Panucci If you are a young player like Patrick Vieira coming into the AC Milan side from Cannes, and you know that Paolo Maldini can sit out a game just like you, you will respect the coach, yourself and even Maldini more.
And we are seeing this play out in the England squad at the moment as Capello prepares to forfeit two goals to Joe Cole for his tactical indiscipline during the Andorra game.
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