Michael Owen cannot sleep questioning how Golden Generation did not win something
Michael Owen has sleepless nights questioning how he by no means gained trophies enjoying with England’s ‘Golden Generation’.
In the late 90s and 2000s, Owen was a part of sides eradicated on the quarter-finals in three main tournaments – regardless of their highly-rated gamers. The former striker, 43, reckons England had an “unbelievable” crew however some gamers’ actions stopped them attaining – akin to David Beckham’s pink card within the 1998 World Cup.
He added: “England have got a history of self-imploding. You just think, a lot of the tournaments we’ve gone out, it’s actually not necessarily for footballing reasons. So, of course I go to bed regularly thinking how didn’t we win something with England – the teams that we had.”
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Owen, who scored 40 targets for England, stated he nonetheless “resented” Beckham after his sending-off within the 1998 quarters in opposition to Argentina. He stated: “He made a mistake and you could say that contributed to us going out of the World Cup.”
Owen additionally reckons Wayne Rooney, 38, getting despatched off within the 2006 World Cup price them pricey. Despite Owen’s targets, England at main tournaments was a story of underachievement throughout his profession.
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The Three Lions went out to Argentina within the second spherical on the 1998 World Cup, the group stage at Euro 2000 and the quarter-finals beneath Sven-Goran Eriksson on the 2002 World Cup, Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup. Following Eriksson’s departure, England then suffered the embarrassment of failing to qualify for Euro 2008.
Owen’s nationwide crew excessive was undoubtedly his hat-trick within the well-known 5-1 rout of Germany in 2001 throughout qualifying for the next 12 months’s World Cup. Owen went on to develop into solely the fourth Englishman to win the Ballon d’Or .
But the previous Liverpool and Real Madrid striker informed Simon Jordan’s Up Front podcast: “I wasn’t the perfect participant on the planet after I gained the Ballon d’Or. But in a way I used to be.
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“Realistically I knew I wasn’t the best in the world. You had the likes of Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane playing at that time – there were better players than me. However, when I stepped on the pitch I felt like I was the best. But when I sit here today, I know that there were better players than me at the time.
“I think footballers were more pure back in the day. Now you have to be an athlete, you have to be able to run, you have to be big and you have to be fast. If Matt Le Tissier, one of the most gifted players of our time, were playing today, would he even get into a team?”