World Cup Woes – Player Power Returns?

Nicholas Anelka’s verbal outburst with Raymond Domenech, the French manager during the half time interval between France vs Mexico, is the first real obvious illustration that all it is not right in a number of team camps.

Only today, Patrick Evra had a spat with a fitness coach which resulted in the coach tossing away his accreditation and walking from the training pitch. This further illustrates some of the problems involved in multimillion dollar soccer.

Subsequently after today’s disagreement it is reported that the French squad refused to train in preparation for Tuesday’s match against South Africa.

Recently other comments emanating from struggling teams such as Spain and England show further indications that highly paid superstars believe their thoughts and comments are the most correct and beyond reproach by either coach or the press.

It was telling that following the immediate post match comments from Wayne Rooney, English striker, when leaving the field and complaining about the English fans booing him, we find the whole England team has got the message and apologized for the horrible performance that they put up against Algeria.

It’s seems to be an increasing irritation for European fans that the stars they idolize week in, week out for their clubs show no similar passion or inclination for their countries.
Fans around Europe are questioning the integrity of their highly paid stars.

It is seems we are likely to see further illustrations of European players reacting to their team management and the increasing criticism from fans.

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Posted by Florence Andrew on Jun 21 2010. Filed under Featured News, Sports & Recreation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry