Tancredi's England 'keeper quest--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
England’s new goalkeeping Coach Franco Tancredi admits his job will be “difficult” to find a decent Three Lions shot-stopper.
Tancredi was brought in as part of Fabio Capello’s staff along with fellow Italians Franco Baldini, Italo Galbiati and Massimo Neri.
“I am incredibly happy,” explained the former Roma goalkeeper. “It will be a very difficult but fascinating adventure.
“In England there are real problems with the goalkeeper’s role and the big clubs all have foreigners, sometimes in the reserves as well.”
Howlers have been costly during the failed Euro 2008 qualifying campaign and one of Capello’s first jobs will be to find a reliable first choice ‘keeper.
Tancredi has some experience of English football, although not one that makes him happy, as he played for Roma in their European Cup Final defeat on penalties to Liverpool.
“If and when I see Alan Hansen, Bruce Grobelaar and Graham Souness again, I’ll tell them that is the only match of my career I’d like to replay.”
Blog: Don't, Fabio Fabio Capello has been approved as the new England manager, but is this the right move for the Italian Coach? Susy Campanale has a few reservations
Nobody can doubt that Fabio Capello is a winner. With nine domestic titles – seven if you exclude the Calciopoli-tainted Juventus Scudetti – at four different clubs and this summer’s daft Real Madrid exit the first sacking of his entire career, the CV speaks for itself. This is one of the reasons why I’m surprised Don Fabio took the job at all.
He is a proud man who always points out he is the one in charge and making the decisions, so I am amazed he did not tell the FA to shove their contract when it became abundantly clear he was not the first, second or potentially even third choice. When your predecessor was Steve McClaren, the employers can hardly afford to be picky.
Martin O’Neill and Jose Mourinho may well have done a good job of it, but the fact Capello was the only Coach to make his interest clear when McClaren’s brolly was still wet may well work against him. Perhaps it was a re-evаluation of the old Groucho Marx maxim, the FA wouldn’t want an England manager who’d accept the position so enthusiastically, for there must surely be something wrong with him.
Why on earth would he want this job? For the first time ever England have realised their expectations far outweigh the actual talent on offer and most of their club football success can be put down to foreign imports both on the field and off it.
Capello has a snappy relationship with the media, fans, players and most other Coaches, continually turning on them with barely-disguised animosity when criticised. It will be entertaining to see quite what he makes of the tabloids, although after surviving the Italian media’s build-em-up-and-knock-em-down process in the space of 90 minutes he can deal with anything.
What the papers will make of him is another matter. A quiet man on the sidelines he is not and the language barrier shouldn’t pose too much of a problem for someone with his kaleidoscopic array of hand gestures, facial expressions and high-pitched screams.
It is amusing that after years of insulting the ‘boring’ Italian style of play, they snap up the most defensive-minded of all the ex-Serie A bosses. His style won’t be any less entertaining than that of Sven Goran Eriksson or McClaren, but at least it might be more effective. Note the ‘might’ in that sentence. There is a reason he has only won one Champions League but nine domestic titles and that is hard graft, grinding out results against the smaller sides and knowing when a draw will suffice.
That attitude can falter in a knock-out competition and it will be interesting to see how he does after the qualifying campaign is over.
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