Roberto Martinez
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680 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2016
last heard 7 Jul
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And then he brings that know-how of he's won the World Cup, he's won the European Championships under the expectations of a nation, because the players at that time almost brought those expectations, which is a real similarity with what we've got in Belgian football now.
There is not such a thing as assessing a World Cup before it happened.
I think you can assess the qualification campaign.
And now we've earned the right of having three games.
That's the only thing we've got.
And now we need to almost work hard to try to see what we can do with those three games.
We need to grow with the tournament.
It's almost significant.
I think in Spain...
It was a period of a really good group of players, but it was very difficult to know what it takes to get far in the tournament.
And everything goes down to those feelings that you get in the first games, how can you become a real unit, a team that can face adversity, which has nothing to do with the talent that you have.
And I think it's something that you cannot work until you get into the real stage.
But we don't.
I think there are names that probably they are not as well known as other nations, but that doesn't mean that they're not going to be extremely difficult.
I think Panama, you need to remember that they are the ones that they kept USA out of the World Cup, probably the biggest investment in international football to try to get in a World Cup.
Panama with a coach, Bolillo, was the assistant of Pachamaturana, has been involved in three World Cups with different nations.
So there is a real experience there.
But the biggest aspect is that these teams have got nothing to lose.
They clearly can go to the World Cup and have the opportunity to become national heroes and enjoy the occasion, which is very, very difficult when you are expected to get a positive result in a World Cup against a nation that they are a winning nation for their own right because they qualified to the World Cup.
That is clearly a big challenge ahead.
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