Fabio Capello – distinguished football manager (and former Italian international), having won many league and cup titles, including Serie A, La Liga and the Champions League. Fabio Capello has a reputation for being totalitarian in training and for shunning ‘pretty football’ for the sake of results. He also has one of the most impressive art collections in Italy. He currently manages the England national team (Fabio Capello profile).
So, four games into the qualification campaign for World Cup 2010 and England sit clear at the top of their group with twelve points.
An unimpressive win over Andorra was followed by a scintillating performance in Croatia. Then, last Saturday...
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It was all set up. Six points out of six, a crowd of 90,000 passionate and expectant fans and coming off the back of a fabulous 4-1 win in Croatia. The opponents? Kazakhstan, who have never qualified for anything and were at Wembley to just play a...
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England coach Fabio Capello has urged fans not to boo his side if they struggle to break Kazakhstan down today. The Italian has made the plea ahead of this afternoon’s match at Wembley. England fans have always had high expectations for their...
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Former Arsenal player Alexander Hleb (now at Barcelona) had this to say about Fabio Capello’s rules:
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Aside from the Gerrard/Lampard debate, England’s traditional selection problem has been who to play on the left-wing due to a dearth of decent candidates. The current conundrum is who to play on the right, but the reasons are quite opposite.
Fabio...
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Watch World Cup qualifiers live here.
It’s great being an England fan. The despair and doom and gloom hanging over the team and indeed, over the entirety of English football,...
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Written by Graham Fisher. 6 comments
A letter in the Soccerlens postbag today came from a desperate sounding footballer. We have tried to give reassurance and sound advice to help him through what is clearly a dificult time.
Dear Soccerlens,
I am a twenty-eight...
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When England were playing Andorra and Croatia it was fair enough for Fabio Capello to think that Michael Owen was not fit enough to feature for England given his injury and illness problems. But despite playing six games for Newcastle and scoring five...
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Watch England v Croatia live online.
They say that history repeats itself. In England’s case, stupidity repeats itself, ad nauseam.
You could drive...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 10 comments
It infuriates me when people are judged on their appearance. Just because Rafa Benitez is a tubby mess, this does not give opposing supporters the right to abuse him.
The Aston Villa supporters went well over the top with their ‘Fat Spanish...
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