Sven-Goran Eriksson
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And at the end we were not especially good at penalties.
But you were also taking them in training.
You don't have 50,000, 60,000, and you don't have television, knowing that they're sitting millions of millions of people.
But isn't that the same for every country?
Yeah, but England especially.
I don't know.
You would know better.
I think the pressure at that time...
was very, very big that we should go to the final.
And when you're standing there to take a penalty, you feel it.
Even if you are strong, even if you're experienced, even if you don't want to feel it, I think you do.
And that makes it more difficult.
You cannot train it.
You can expect young players, those players normally not taking penalties during the weekend in their clubs.
missing because it's too big for them and they are not used to penalties but in our case there were experienced penalty players.
Maybe, but I don't know if the players felt that.
I don't think so.
I didn't feel it because I... But for me, it was very normal to invite families.
not staying in our hotel, staying away.