i am beckham

Chapter 329 The "Beautiful" Life by the Sea

The England team started their final preparations in a beautiful coastal city, but Beckham felt that the atmosphere of the England team's preparations was not pleasant at all.

The biggest reason comes from Hoddle, who can destroy the players' mentality.

The England coach, who holds the power of life and death of the players, unabashedly conveyed a concept to all the players: he is the dictator of the England team, his authority is unquestionable, and no one can defy his will.

If anyone wants to try it, go home!
Moreover, he has been emphasizing intentionally or unintentionally that his authority must not only take effect here, but also in France.The final list for the World Cup is not the end, as long as he is still the England manager, he has to continue to do so.

Anyone who thinks that Gou can let go of himself when he arrives in France, then try it out, he has the final say on whether he can play or not.

So it really didn't make much difference where England were preparing because everyone was stuck in hotels.

Once Beckham wanted to go out and buy some magazines, but was immediately rejected, and the staff told him that the head coach would not allow this.

Gary Neville tried to order a sandwich, but was not allowed.

Hoddle wants to know exactly where the players go, what they eat, when they sleep and even what they say.

This is simply horrible!

These seem to be very important, but they make everyone feel extremely depressed and irritable.

It was natural for Beckham to compare Hoddle to managers he had experienced before.

It has to be said that Hoddle has undoubted football intelligence, and his IQ in football is often amazing.

He has a vicious eye for scouting players and can read the game accurately. He is a veritable leader among England's current coaches.

After the 90s, every England coach wanted his team to have the ability to control the ball on the ground, but neither Robson nor Taylor had the ability to change the status quo of the team.

Venables is the first England coach to do this, and Hoddle has improved the team's technical and tactical capabilities based on him.

In terms of tactical strategy, he can excellently deploy tactics according to his own ideas, and is particularly detailed.

It's just that all his advantages can only be reflected in the field of football. Once he leaves football, he is a weird manager who often makes tricks.

The evaluation of England players on him is very complicated. Everyone fully affirms his technical and tactical ability, but hopes that he can improve his personnel management ability.

Adams said with emotion: "It would be great if Glenn's personnel management ability could match his football intelligence."

This sentence reminded Beckham of what John Sr. said. He would always use the sentence "if only" when evaluating the England team.

It's a pity that as long as there is "if" in anything, the ending will not be very good.

Beckham felt that it was absolutely impossible for Venables and the old man to make the atmosphere of the team look like this. They believed that the players under their command were rational and self-disciplined adults, and they would never use the way of managing kindergartens to restrain players.

Ferguson can clearly convey his ideas to the players, so that every player knows what he wants and what he should play on the court.

Although Venables is a little careless in this regard, the relationship between him and the players is very natural.

Recalling the England team that broke into the semi-finals of the European Cup two years ago, Beckham felt that although he did not get important, the overall experience was very comfortable.

In that England team, the players often didn't feel the presence of the head coach. As long as he left the game and training, the old bastard Venables could always blend in with the players.

After training, he would take the players clubbing.On rest days between games, he will organize everyone to play cards together.

When English players clashed with their opponents in a friendly match, he would even rush into the pitch to make an appointment with his opponents, but was eventually pulled back to the coaching bench by the players.

What's interesting is that when it came to the European Cup, he became very rational, as if he suddenly understood the job responsibilities of the referee.

Even though Venables made it clear in Beckham that "your competitor in that position is my brother, I just want to use him", but whenever Beckham thinks of him, he can't help but smile.

After all, few head coaches will come forward to negotiate the compensation price with the opponent after the player smashes the screen of the plane. He has done many things that other head coaches avoid.

The old man will also take the initiative to protect the players.Not only will he bargain, but he will also seize every loophole of the opponent to fight for the interests of the players.

Of course, back at the club, he is likely to torture the player who made the mistake to death.

The current England team is different. Once England players encounter this kind of thing, they will not have any expectations of the head coach. Thank God for Hoddle not throwing the blame on everyone.

In Hoddle's eyes, he has to distance himself from those messy things all the time.If a player makes a mistake and is discovered by the media, then the responsibility must be clearly assigned.

When the England team assembled in London two days ago, a reporter reported that McManaman took a girl to a small hotel and walked out 66 minutes later.

Hoddle panicked when no one in England responded to the tabloid news.

He asked McManaman to conduct a review in front of all the media in front of everyone in the locker room. This incident caused a lot of resistance from McManaman. He said incredulously: "There is nothing to be surprised about. As long as we don't respond, no one will care about him. As long as we spend some money and find a newspaper to write something, we can immediately turn the direction of the media in our favor."

Hoddle responded in a low voice: "Steve, of course you can do this, but the England team does not welcome this way of handling it."

So the moment before the England team was about to fly to Lamanga, McManaman blushed in front of the media and said: "I was wrong. I shouldn't start a second sport before the start of the World Cup. But I guarantee that my running time on the football field will never be less than 66 minutes."

After witnessing the press conference in person, Beckham felt that he had benefited a lot. It turned out that the operation process of encountering scandals was like this. It seemed that Nick helped him clear up those celebrities who tried to lure traffic on him.

And Gary Neville was also very surprised. He was surprised that McManaman even counted the time of going up and down stairs and foreplay in the exercise time he opened up.

If this is the case, the time of a football game should start from the moment you board the team bus until you go home at night.

The media at the press conference were also shocked. They were not shocked by the news itself, but that Hoddle asked the players to review the incident in public. They felt that the head coach of England had a problem.

With McManaman's lessons learned, England players will even consider hotels carefully.

No way, when meeting such a head coach who cherishes feathers, no one knows which direction the pot will come from.

What makes people helpless is that Hoddle's performance on the training ground is commendable, so the bosses of the England team pinched their noses and recognized it.

With the World Cup approaching, England players began to focus on football and prepare for this world competition.

Because there are still more than 30 people in the England team, and there are only 23 seats on the final flight to France. Before the "group night", no one knows whether they will be greeted by France or an early holiday.

The English players were fully committed, and even Gascoigne practiced very seriously without complaint.

In order to be able to participate in the World Cup, England players began to involve crazily, and everyone's work and rest schedules became more and more similar.

Everyone chooses to wake up at 7 o'clock, eat at 7:8 o'clock, and gradually start to practice more after [-] o'clock.

When the official training began, most of the players had already changed into a set of soggy training clothes.

Everyone is even more unambiguous when they arrive at the training ground. Everyone will never let go of every opportunity to show themselves in front of the head coach.

The situation of confrontation training is even more involuntary. As long as there is a group confrontation, Gary Neville even shoveled his younger brother to roll on the ground several times.

This is not the end. After the day's training time is over, everyone will go to the gym to strengthen their strength before going back to the room.

This made Beckham and Gary Neville very moved. If these guys usually practice like this, England's championship dream might really come true.

Of course, practicing like this may also make you a useless person, and you will bid farewell to professional football at a young age. Everything is not so absolute.

However, Hoddle's performance on the training ground was not perfect. He showed obvious disdain for the overall quality and skills of England players.

"David, why can't you take a free kick according to the procedure I said?"

"Gary, I can't ask too much of you, can't you do this?"

"Paul, I asked you to pass the ball here, but you passed it 1 meter away. The opponent will not give us time to adjust."

"Emile, you are so strong, why do you look like an old man when you shoot, why are you so soft?"

In the middle of closed training, England and Belgium played a warm-up match in La Manga.

In the first half of the game, the Belgian team's tactical arrangement was very effective. They seized the loopholes in the weak midfield of England's 4-4-2 formation and frequently created threats in the midfield. England played very uncomfortable throughout the first half.

At halftime, Hoddle replaced the Neville brothers at the same time without communication, leaving a lost Gary and a dazed Phil.

At the beginning of the second half, Hoddle adjusted England's formation to 3-5-2, Beckham was placed in the midfielder position, and Anderton ran excitedly to the right side of the pitch.

The adjusted England team won the advantage at once, and they finally defeated Belgium 3-1 through the overall advantage of the center and frontcourt.

Although Belgium at this time can only be regarded as a second-tier European team at best, Hoddle is very satisfied with being able to occupy the ball possession advantage against the strong European teams.

这场比赛结束后，他就完全抛弃了4-4-2阵型，把3-5-2阵型带向世界杯，而这个看似平常的调整却改变了一些球员的世界杯前景。

Gary Neville didn't know Hoddle's true thoughts. He came back the next day and excitedly told Beckham: "John Germann (assistant coach) and I have confirmed that Phil will appear in the final squad."

Hearing Gary's words, Beckham felt himself forcing a smile.He had that autobiography with him, John Sr. mentioned Phil the other day, and he lost because Hoddle gave up 4-4-2.

Of course, this incident does not necessarily happen repeatedly, even if the trajectory of history is exactly the same.

Three days before the end of the training camp, Hoddle rarely allowed everyone to go out.

Hearing the notice from the staff, the England players observed subconsciously. Who knows if Hoddle will use this method to test everyone's mind.

After Adams and Shearer inquired from the staff about the authenticity of the news, everyone became happy, and everyone's first thought was to go to the bar to relax.

What makes people dumbfounded is that Hoddle has stipulated a venue for everyone, a bar that plays classical music, and it is still a private room.

Hearing the news, everyone lamented, this is not the relaxing night everyone wanted.

These days the England team is either in a hotel or on the training ground, basically isolated from the outside world. Gary Neville even chatted with the Belgian striker during the warm-up match. One can imagine how boring life is.

Probably because Hoddle was a little afraid of the hunting ability of English players in bars, and he was afraid that he would be caught by the media if he made any more mistakes.

The player has held back for such a long time, and there may be a large-scale hunting situation. If the English media find out, then he is the head coach and pimp of the England team. This is a disaster.

The atmosphere at the bar when I first came to the bar was still embarrassing, and classical music really couldn't make people happy at certain times, especially when Hoddle was there.

Hoddle stayed for more than an hour before leaving. Everyone was happy when he left.

Gascoigne grabbed the microphone, told the pianist to play as he said, and then gave everyone Brutalist song after song.

What Beckham didn't expect was that these two unbearable songs made everyone excited, and even he swayed to the rhythm.

The atmosphere in the bar suddenly became happy. Beckham, Scholes, and Phil all took a glass of cocktail, and they wanted to indulge once in a while.

Only Gary Neville didn't try it. He simply scoffed at adding salt to the cocktail: "In my world, the only thing that can be salted is French fries!"

Gascoigne was out of breath, so he went to the front desk to get a glass of beer, and drank it all in one gulp.

Then Martin Keown took over the microphone, and he roared a song, which was even worse than Gascoigne.

Arsenal's Quasimodo really lives up to his name.

But the good times didn't last long. Just when everyone thought they could be up until midnight, members of the coaching staff came over and asked Irving and Rio Ferdinand to go back to sleep.

It's not even 10 o'clock yet.
Adams called Hoddle at the front desk and asked if he could go to the public bar and drink with the hotel guests, but he was naturally turned down.

An hour later, England players were also told to go back to the hotel.

That's what England's only night of partying was all about, and the pianist, funny enough, sold the news to the tabloids.

News broke in England the next day of a wild night of revelry.

The FA official said belatedly at this time: "I even forgot to ask him to sign a non-disclosure agreement."

The training camp is coming to an end, and it will definitely be within two days before the announcement of the big roster.

Faced with this fateful moment, most players in the England team were nervous. Everyone was uncertain about Hoddle's thoughts, which was a bit disgusting.

(End of this chapter)