widthHe means failure means knowing Gareth Southgate Since June 26, 1996, in the semi-finals of the European Championship at home, the German team will face a penalty shoot-out at Wembley Stadium. British coaches Terry Venables and Brian Robson went to find a shooter. After some experienced professional players dodge, they approached the 25-year-old Southgate, who is ninth in the world: “If there is a sixth place, would you shoot?”
It was like a bolt from the blue to him, Southgate later wrote. He still agreed that night. Soon after, Robson came back and asked him one more thing: “Have you ever shot a shot?” The rest is known.The top five shooters of the two teams made a dreamy shot, and then Southgate ran up and the shot was weak. Andreas Kopke Parry. Because Andreas Möller met at that time, the British summer fairy tale ended.
“Thirty Years of Suffering”
The semi-finals nearly a quarter of a century ago delved into the psychology of English football. It continues and consolidates the previously created failure story as a self-fulfilling prophecy: the “Thirty Years of Pain” sung in the wonderful football song “Three Lions (Football Home)” in 1996 has become more than fifty.
If you gained a few pounds in 2016, then under the leadership of that pale Gareth Southgate (Gareth Southgate), he will change, he just temporarily took over as the coach of the national team-even the British Would also think he was crazy, not weird.
This is quite a bit of prehistory, but it helps to understand the emotional power of the England team’s path, which led to the return to the final of a major tournament on Wednesday night (Sunday, 9pm) for the first time since 1966. In the FAZ real-time quotes of the European Football Championship And on ZDF and MagentaTV). And why Southgate, who was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, on September 3, 1970, is so special and should go down in history as the man who liberated this football country from its curse—just because this time even Germany was also defeated.
Southgate, who played boring football at Crystal Palace, Aston Villa and Middlesbrough Football Club, can now easily coach a luxury team. If you want to criticize anything, it is that it often becomes a rather Puritan football.
However, his undisputed advantage is that this dramatic British national team has returned to a solid and rational foundation and ensured a good spirit. Southgate is not only a master of “soft skills”, but also a polite person-so in the overall situation of English football is almost a weird.
