Soccer fraternity is often known for their exaggerated statements where everyone claims himself to be better than his competitors. Sometimes, it is the part of a strategy for brainy minds where they try to demoralize their contenders before the beginning of a mega soccer event. Next year, Brazil is going to host the biggest soccer extravaganza: World Cup and each team will try to overcome others either via their in-field performances or via a psychological pressure which is being built up through their preplanned statements. When it comes to playing a mind game, England officials edge over everyone coz they are the most experienced ones in this game hence they know how to play outside of a soccer field. This time, you can call it a part of the long term strategy or rather a realistic appraisal of what you have, but English FA chairman Greg Dyke seems to be demoralized as far their winning chances are concerned in Brazil next year. He sees no reason his team can triumph over other competitors; in fact, he also prescribed a detailed layout of what England should do to mark its presence in world football again. He was talking about his in-depth analysis in a press conference back in London where he advised English team to concentrate on Euro 2020 semi-final and then try to win 2022 World Cup.
Though, he is confident his team would qualify for the mega event, but is little skeptical it can make any significant impact in Brazil. He told, “I asked a bunch of journalists what would be seen as doing well in Brazil. The consensus was if we reach the quarter-finals we’ll do very well. That’s not to say we can’t win. But let’s not kid ourselves, it’s pretty hard to win in Latin America anyway for a European side. We’re certainly not going to go there as odds-on favourites, that’s for sure.
“Obviously, I thought about that, I discussed it with Roy Hodgson. He knows that we want to do the best we can possibly do at every tournament and I believe we will qualify for Brazil and we can do OK.”
He blames English downfall on the rising number of foreign players’ participating in the English Premier League and expects this is going to be ever more dreadful in future until we do not encourage more local players’ involvement in the domestic league. He explained it as, “The real challenge for us looking forward is that we’ve gone from 70% English players in the Premier League to 30% and it’s still falling. If that continues, we won’t have a chance in hell in future tournaments. We have got to stop that decline and we’ve got to get more English players playing at the highest level.”