Chapter 99
After saying this, Endritt, who had not yet officially taken office, turned his head and looked at John Terry, the current England captain.
John Terry gave an awkward but polite smile. After hearing the news, and thinking about how Coach Capello walked straight towards Endritt this morning, John Terry realized that the game was over: although he didn't expect it to go so quickly, he was not surprised at all.
"Maybe I should say sorry?" Endrit hummed softly, "But you may not want to hear this."
John Terry nodded.
Endrit extended his hand to John Terry, "I'm waiting for you to take back the captaincy."
John Terry placed his hand on Endrit's hand, his eyes determined, "I will."
Several teammates who were watching immediately reached out and rubbed the goose bumps on their bodies. Lampard deliberately freed his hands to grab Endrit's shoulders and pull him down, "Are you also thinking of taking my captaincy at Chelsea..."
"What are you talking about?" Endrit shook his head in denial. "I was robbing Ballack, a vice-captain... No, no, no, don't scratch me! I was wrong!"
Not far away, Crouch raised his hand and bumped Gerrard, his chin slightly raised, "What do you think Chelsea are talking about? Why is it so lively?"
Gerard glanced at it from a distance and then quickly looked away, "I don't know. It has nothing to do with us anyway."
"That's right," Crouch nodded in agreement. "I don't know what Coach Capello said to Ritter just now. He can't be criticizing Ritter, can he?"
Gerrard glanced at Crouch and said in surprise: "I noticed that you always mentioned Ritter every time you came to the national team for training. You didn't seem very happy when we won the previous friendly matches."
Crouch didn't feel guilty at all, and even straightened his back with great satisfaction. "Come on, when you play, would you rather have a goalkeeper like Ritter or Carson Robinson?"
Carson and Robinson are both national team goalkeepers. Their performance in the league is usually similar to that in the national team. Robinson is very steady and rarely makes small mistakes that lead to failed saves, but he cannot save some of the opponent's shots from tricky angles. His lower limit is very high compared to other goalkeepers, but his upper limit is very low compared to another goalkeeper of the national team, Carson.
As for Carson, he has performed many magical operations such as butter hands and giving opponents own goals in national team games. In several friendly matches of the national team this year, under the watchful eye of coach Capello, Carson repeated his past mistakes on the court. He works very hard, and his upper limit keeps rising, but his lower limit has always been firmly rooted in the grassroots and cannot be raised at all.
"Don't you want to play football with Ritter? Don't say you don't want to," Crouch was very confident about this matter, "No one can refuse Ritter!"
Gerrard sighed silently, patted Crouch on the shoulder and said nothing. Gerrard thought that after the end of this season, he would lose Crouch as a teammate.
Gerrard didn't say anything, so Crouch kept looking in the direction of Endrit, wanting to walk over and join their conversation. But before he made up his mind whether to walk over and take the initiative to join the conversation, coach Capello summoned the players who came to the national team training today and announced a very shocking news to them.
"Our goal for this year's European Championship is to win the championship and maintain the third place."
"I hope all of you have the same idea as me. My requirements are not high. We need to practice this cooperation within three months before the start of the European Cup." Capello looked at where the Chelsea players were standing. "Chelsea took less than half a month to see initial results, and we have three months."
"We have a big advantage and I hope that in more than three months we can turn that advantage into victory in the competition."
"Now, I will hand it over to Ritter, and he will tell you how to cooperate."
Endrit, who was suddenly cueed, was shocked: No, starting now? He spent a long time simulating it in his imagination before starting training with Chelsea!
Endrit walked to the front with heavy steps. He could already foresee that today's cooperation would not be very smooth, because he didn't know his current teammates at all. He had no cooperation with his teammates in the previous European Cup qualifiers.
"I think you all know me, so I won't introduce myself." Endrit skipped the self-introduction part. "Regarding the cooperation issue that the coach just mentioned, I think many people are confused now and don't know what this cooperation is."
To be honest, Endrit felt that he couldn't explain it clearly, because Chelsea's main problem was the coordination between Lampard and Ballack, while the national team's main problem was not just the coordination between Gerrard and Lampard.
What's more crucial is that before coach Mourinho proposed this cooperation, he had already analyzed in detail with Endrit the reasons why Lampard and Ballack could not coexist. But coach Capello didn't say a word! Is this a hands-off boss who wants to rely entirely on Endrit?
"To be honest, I don't know how to cooperate with you now, because we haven't had enough contact time, and I don't know you very well, so there is no way to start training now," Endrit paused, "but I can tell you how we cooperate in Chelsea."
Endrit proposed to coach Capello the idea of re-watching the video of Chelsea's recent game. Many players playing in the Premier League said that they had been forced to watch the game many times in the team and had already summed up their experience.
"Then you can revise your thoughts after you go back today."
Endrit didn't go into too much detail, he just talked about a little bit based on the last few games: when to start cooperating.
"When our opponent kicks the ball directly towards the goal and I block it, we will start to counterattack."
The opponent's attack is the clarion call for us to launch an attack.
"As for how the offense on the field is specifically distributed," Endrit turned his head and looked at Capello, "it depends on our coach."
He is just an ordinary captain. He is not a team coach and he doesn't have to consider such issues!
Endrit stepped down, Capello took over the command with a smile and began to talk about the team's offensive problems. The latter obviously has some research. The cooperation problem between the two D'Antoni is more serious than that between Lampard and Ballack, because the latter can cooperate theoretically.
Lampard and Ballack overlap in the core midfield positions at Chelsea. Both of them are used to organizing their own attacks. Chelsea players don't know whose command to listen to on the field.
Gerrard and Lampard are non-core in the national team: when Gerrard played for Liverpool, Mascherano was responsible for interception, Alonso organized and dispatched, and Gerrard played as a defensive midfielder. His position in the team was more focused on shadow striker and scorer.
In the national team, Gerrard does not have a teammate who can organize and coordinate the team. If he wants to score a goal, he has to fight for the ball himself.
Lampard can organise and direct the team at Chelsea now, so why not do the same for the national team and be the teammate next to Gerrard who can organise and direct the team? The reason is simple. The ultimate goal of Lampard's organization and dispatch is to let himself score a goal, rather than pass the ball to Gerrard for the latter to score.
Different goals are just a small problem. The bigger problem is the national team teammates: it is already difficult for Lampard to cooperate with the national team teammates in the midfield to launch an attack, let alone go a step further and cooperate with Gerrard?
"From what I just said, the problems our national team is facing are very similar to those Chelsea encountered before. In the subsequent training, all the offensive organization and dispatch of the national team will start from Ritter..."
Under the guidance of Coach Capello, all the players returned home dizzy that day, and their dreams were of the offensive diagrams drawn by Coach Capello on the tactical board.
The players who arrived that day took home a thick stack of A4 papers, and the players who did not arrive also received a letter from Mr. Capello: Next week, all national team players, whether starting or substitute, must arrive at the training ground on time to start practical training.
"Coach Capello always says that the national team and Chelsea have the same problems," Endrit frowned, not agreeing with this statement at all. "How can they be the same? Our Chelsea team's cooperation only adds a new offensive method, but according to Coach Capello, this cooperation will be the only offensive method for the national team in the future."
"Doesn't this completely throw the national team's defense aside?! The most outrageous thing is," Endrit sighed, "the national team players who went there today all agreed with what Coach Capello said."
England national team, no defense!
"No one objected to this statement!"
Mourinho glanced at Endrit, who was lying on the table and sighing, and reached out to touch Endrit's head. "Don't be too stressed. There are not many games for the national team."
"Yeah." Endrit sat up and agreed with Coach Mourinho's words, "Coach Capello promised me that I would only participate in the national team's games this year in the European Cup, and by that time the league will have been over, so we will have an easier time."
"That's right." Mourinho admired Endrit's attitude very much. "That's how you should think. Don't put too much psychological pressure on yourself."
Endrit, who was encouraged, spoke happily about Coach Capello, "I thought Coach Capello was deliberately making things difficult for me, but I was overthinking it. Coach Capello just wanted me to introduce myself. He was actually ready to tell the players how to play today."
"Coach Capello is completely different from the previous coach McClaren. He is a very nice guy. He..." Before Endrit could finish his words, coach Mourinho covered his mouth with his hand.
Endrit blinked in confusion: Could it be that his loud voice woke up Mathilde?
"You don't have to think about the rest," Mourinho took his hand back and expressed his dissatisfaction with a sour face, "Believe me, Capello is deliberately making things difficult for you. You think he is a good person, but you think too much."
"But……"
"Don't say but, he just can't do it."
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