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Why are national teams different?

  • 30-05-2006 7:07pm
    #1
    vorbis
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    Coming up to a world cup and most of the big teams have been playin experimental friendlies and trying out this formation and that. The odd thing is at club level its generally desirable to have a settled team playing the same formation week in week out. Why does this change at international level?

    Small countries do well imo is that they're forced to stick to one formation and don't have the depth of players required to be constantly chopping and changing. England, France and Spain on the other hand can change half a team from one friendly to the next. Surely big countries would have more success by fielding the same 11 for most friendlies.

    I doubt that international level is really of a higher standard to the champions league. It seems more of a case that the players are not on the same wavelength due to a lack of game time together. Brazil have the right idea. They've named the starting team for the first world cup match already. This gives players time to practice together and to well be a team.


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  • #2
    PHB
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    Bad managers


  • #3
    leeroybrown
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    International managers have a lot less time with their players in training and with the vital nature of qualifiers and the limited number of friendlies a lot less time to experiment. That said I think that quite a few of them fiddle too much and that the run up to the world cup should be spent putting finesse on your side not deciding what formation to play.


  • #4
    eyerer
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    could also argue they wanna avoid potential injuries so soon to the real thing


  • #5
    cregser
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    PHB wrote:
    Bad managers
    I agree.

    They definitely seem to have less of a clue of what they're doing than club managers. But they are at the mercy of club football - which is why only experienced managers should manage internationally (because they've been there and seen it all and don't have to waste time tinkering).

    The catch22 is that the class managers see club football as the only decent challenge - with the exceptions of Luiz Felipe Scolari and maybe Guus Hiddink. The other international managers are only "highly rated" and not exactly proven (although that could be argued - it's all opinion).


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