Gareth Southgate
π€ SpeakerVoice Profile Active
This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You know everybody from the kit man to the lady that's washing the kit to dinner people providing the meals.
So if you have a bad performance, this comfort there, this, I suppose, what we'd call psychological security,
with the national team you're in you've got to bond quickly when you have a performance everybody's weighing in with opinion so for a player it's a much much less secure feeling if you like and one of the things I wanted to create was okay how do we how do we release that tension because I played for England and I knew what that felt like and we couldn't be burdened by the history of
my generation not getting the results.
Part of what we did was to focus on this moment in time, free you up of everything that's gone before, talk to them a bit about my experiences.
But you can make this moment something really special.
You'll have heard us talk about creating our own history.
That was why we kept using that phrase really.
Okay, we haven't won here for 30 years.
Let's be the first to do it.
Culture is a word that's used an enormous amount, isn't it?
So what is that?
What creates that?
Well, the leader definitely sets the tone for that.
And respectfully, there's what you say, but then what you do is far more important.
So same as our kids looking at us.
They're looking at our behaviours.
They're mimicking what we do.
That's why I pull the same faces that my dad pulls.
And you go, oh God, I must be getting old because...