Slaven Bilic
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Same sport, of course.
It's the same game.
I've done both.
When you're international, you have obviously more time to prepare for the game.
You know, you have four weeks minimum, sometimes more, and you can analyze the player, the player's individual, as a team, how they played and all that.
You have time and time and time.
And also to prepare your game.
Although your players, especially in Croatia, they play abroad, but you can talk to them on the phone, you can visit them.
what I like to do and get them into a game, although it's still three or four weeks to the meeting and all that.
And then you are dealing, if you are the manager of the good country, you are dealing with the good players.
The players are always up for it.
They are playing for their country.
It's a big thing, big pride.
And that's a good point.
The bad point, you are not working every day.
with them, if you don't have a left back, you don't go to the market, you can't go to the market and get a left back, you know.
So there are some pluses and minuses.
Fortunately, I was, and I said it, and I have no problem with saying that when I was manager, I was manager of my country, you know, and there's no bigger job that you can imagine.
It's like the job that makes, it's more than a job.
That's what... I mean, you played for England then.