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Wednesday 31 July 2013

England are always too tired to win the World Cup because there's no winter break says Capello

England are always too tired to win the World Cup because there's no winter break says Capello

Three Lions' old boss claims they "are the least fresh of the competing sides" at tournaments as players don't get mid-season breather
Driving farce: Capello compared England's players to cars running out of gas
Driving farce: Capello compared England's players to cars running out of gas
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Fabio Capello has warned England will never win the World Cup - because the players are always "running on empty" after a long season with no winter break.
Don Fabio, who trousered nearly £25million before tax in his four years in charge of the Three Lions, claimed the quality of Premier League football is better in the first half of the season, before fatigue kicks in.
Capello's comments will surprise the England players who complained of his 'boot-camp' philosophy as they prepared for the disastrous World Cup campaign in South Africa in 2010, culminating in a humiliating 4-1 defeat by Germany.
But, in an interview with world governing body FIFA's offical website, the Italian insisted: "They (England) are the least fresh of the competing national sides because their league doesn't have a break.
"It's like when you are driving a car: If you stop halfway to put fuel in the tank, then you will definitely get to where you want to go.
"But if you don't, then there's always the chance you will be running on empty before you reach your goal.
"In my opinion, the football played in the first half of the English season is much better than the second half - and because of that, if you want to be a competitive team in the Premier League, you need a really big squad - which is a luxury you don't get with the national team."
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 Capello, who quit 18 months ago in protest at John Terry being stripped of the captaincy, believes he left successor Roy Hodgson an enviable legacy.
Hodgson was installed barely a month before last summer's European Championship in Poland and Ukraine, where England suffered their traditional exit on penalties - against Italy this time - in the quarter-finals.
Capello, now in charge of the Russian national side - with whom he communicates through interpreters, which sounds familiar - added: "I think it went very well, but it could have gone even better. The way we went out (of the 2010 World Cup, after a Frank Lampard goal to make it 2-2 was wrongly disallowed) against Germany still hurts - but that aside, I feel satisfied.
"I arrived after the team had missed out on qualifying for Euro 2008, but under me we easily made it through two qualifying campaigns and my win record was very good.
"I also gave lots of young players a chance, such as Danny Welbeck, Jack Wilshere, Phil Jones, Ashley Young, James Milner and Joe Hart. Theo Walcott had already played one game for England, but he established himself under me.
"I feel I left a good legacy.
"Was there more pressure in England? On the pitch perhaps, yes, and the English media put you under an awful lot of pressure, that's clear.
"But it's hard to compare that with what happens in Russia because here I can't understand what the journalists say!"
By the time he walked out on the Football Association, Capello's patchy grasp of English, after more than four years in the job, did not reflect his salary as the highest-paid England coach in history.

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