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Are you a loyal England supporter? Do you look forward to the World Cup and eagerly follow England's progress? Would you like to find out more about the history of your national team and their past performance in top flight football? If so, this book is certain to appeal to you. England's World Cup Story documents England's journey in the World Cup from 1950 under the guidance of Sir Walter Winterbottom up to 2010 with Fabio Capello at the helm as manager. Packed with fascinating facts, quotes and profiles of many of the all-time great players, this book tells the story of the England team through the years from the many near misses and disappointments to victory in 1966 and beyond. Who can forget the likes of Gordon Banks, Bobby Moore and Sir Stanley Matthews to name but a few? They are all in this book together with more recent heroes such as David Beckham, Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney. As one of only eight national sides to have lifted the World Cup trophy, this book is a fitting tribute to the England team. This is a must-have for all fans of the beautiful game and anyone with an interest in the history of the World Cup.

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Publié par	Andrews UK
Date de parution	27 septembre 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781908582553
Langue	English

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ENGLAND’S WORLD CUP STORY

From Winterbottom’s 1950 to Capello’s 2011

Andy Groom

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Apex Publishing Ltd
PO Box 7086, Clacton on Sea, Essex, CO15 5WN, England
www.apexpublishing.co.uk

Digital version converted and published in 2011 by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com

Copyright © 2011 Andy Groom
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Introduction

England’s World Cup Story is a book built on history, facts, tales and major player profiles all pieced together to tell the story of England’s World Cup history.
The Football Association (FA) is the governing body for the joint oldest team in the World, England. With their first International match in 1872, England have had ups and downs throughout the impressive history of a proud Nation’s team.
Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure or Three identical Gold Lions with blue tongues and claws. The Three Lions is the badge proudly worn on the England jersey, however, the history as to why the England National Football team wear the symbol is not clearly known.
The story behind the Three Lions story is told from around the 12th Century, Richard I Lionheart is associated with a shield featuring the Three Lions depicting the great history of the Country. The National team proudly wear the badge on the shirt, and have done so since the game against Scotland in 1872. Out of the nineteen World Cup Fin als, the World have seen the English Three Lions feature in thirteen.
Other than the numerous British Home Championships, UEFA European Championships and other tournaments, the book focuses on England’s World Cup history. As one of the eight National teams to have won the FIFA World Cup, the following chapters follow the great moments, the good times, and not so impressive periods for the team with the traditional home white shirts and away red shirts.
From the 1950 World Cup shock, to the 1966 glory, from the 1970 masterpiece to the 1994 disaster, from Bobby’s Italia ‘90 delight to Fabio’s African stuck in the mud, from Stanley Matthews to David Beckham, from Bobby Moore to Stuart Pearce, from Geoff Hurst to Wayne Rooney, this is England...

Kings of Football - 1950 Brazil

Brazil
The World Cup had been hosted since 1930, and every four years after, however, the planned 1942 and 1946 World Cup had been cancelled due to World War II. International Federation of soccer Associations (FIFA) soon laid out plans to continue with a 1950 World Cup. As Europe had been battered by the War, it was the South Americans, Brazil who outbid Germany to host the 1950 World Cup. Since 1930, the tournament was the first outside of Europe, and the first for ‘the Kings of football’, England.
The Jules Rimet Cup was uncovered to the World audience for the first time to mark the 25th anniversary of Rimet’s presidency of FIFA.
The preliminary and qualification competition was somewhat of a charade as teams did qualify and then pull out. Notably India pulled out, as FIFA would not allow the team to play in bare feet!
The World Cup Finals were to consist of 16 teams; however with Countries withdrawing, only 13 took place. The tournament consisted of two phases, the winners of the first Group stage phase advanced into the next.

Kings Embark
With Brazil host and Italy reigning champions already qualified, England paved their way to qualify for the competition through the 1949-50 British Home Championship under the guidance of manager Walter Winterbottom. A 4-1 victory over Wales in October 1949 was bettered with a monstrous 9-2 battering a month later over Northern Ireland. To seal England’s route to Brazil, a 1-0 win was courtesy of Roy Bentley at Hampden Park over Scotland. Scotland announced they would only play at the tournament if they won the British Home Championship, however, they finished second.
Sir Walter Winterbottom CBE Years 1947-62 Record P139, W78, L2 Win percentage 56%
Walter Winterbottom was the first man to take the England post, and held it for 139 games in charge. The ex-teacher was originally appointed director of coaching for the National side a year before he took the reins of manager, and Winterbottom celebrated a 7-2 victory over Ireland in his first game. Back in the day, a selection committee chose the squads, as proven with the infamous USA game in the 1950 World Cup Finals, but Winterbottom could chose the starting XI. The manager was not a professional player himself in his day, so some say there may have been a communication and respect issue. To take the mantle for 16 years underlines these matters were overcome.
The Oldham born manager took England to four World Cup Finals of 1950, 1954, 1958 and 1962, quite remarkable compared to today’s managerial turnover.
Learning on the job is an understatement, as the manager with little club management experience began the 1950 World Cup Finals with a humiliating result against the USA, and an early first round exit. And so he gathered around him knowledgeable football men such as Ron Greenwood and the following tournaments were more successful by reaching the quarter-finals in 1954 and 1962.
With further knowledge of the coaching and motivation in football, Winterbottom brought forward the English game by encouraging players to analyse the game, prepare in terms of diet and fitness, quite ahead of the times. With many changes to the game, foundations were there for the next manager.
Many have complimented the work Winterbottom has done for the Country’s National game, including Ron Greenwood who commented, “Many people in the game now have no idea how much English football owes Walter, he launched our coaching system and gave it impetus and status.” (Galvin 2005)
Sir Bobby Robson portrayed Winterbottom as ‘a prophet’. (Galvin 2005)
In 1963 the England manager was created an OBE, in 1972 a CBE, in 1978 awarded Knighthood and in 2005 inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame due to his recognition of National managerial contribution.
Roy Thomas Frank Bentley Years 1949-55 Caps 12 Goals 9
Roy Bentley was nicknamed ‘The man who robbed Scotland of Rio’ after scoring the winning goal that prevented Scotland to qualify from the British Home Championship. Bentley made his England debut against Sweden before the 1950 Finals; from there he made 12 appearances and scored an impressive 9 goals, by anyone’s standards an excellent goals-to-games ratio.

Withdraw
With the FA overlooking the FIFA World Cup’s until 1950, there was some confusion with players available to be used in Walter Winterbottom’s squad; none more so than the main man Stanley Matthews. After the 1-0 win over Scotland in the British Home Championship, the Three Lions overturned Portugal 5-3 in Lisbon and Belgium 4-1 in Brussels in a mini warm up to the World Cup Finals. England’s strikers were on form and the team were starting to gel. A Canadian tour was on the cards for other players who made up an experienced team to promote English football, Stanley Matthews was one of the boys included.
England, one of the Tournament favourites including the best players in the world were drawn in Group 2 with European counterparts Spain and unknown teams Chile and USA.

Red Hot Chile
To kick off the Three Lions World Cup assault, an estimated 40,000 in Rio de Janeiro witnessed England overturn Chile 2-0, no surprise to the World audience. Stan Mortensen scored England’s first just before the end of the first half, with Wilfred Mannion adding a second just after the break to secure victory. The temperate was soaring in South America, a new experience for the boys from the soggy England shores, but a win in the opening game was all that was required.
Stanley Matthews arrived late from a tour of Canada, the flying winger wasn’t used in opening World Cup game, however, the Three Lions still sealed victory.
The win against the Chileans turned out to be the beginning of the end of England’s World Cup journey. As Matthews was left out of the Chile game, apparently the selection committee, just one man Arthur Drewry, refused the inclusion of the wing wizard for the forthcoming ‘lowly’ USA game as the winning team should not be changed! Other sources even stated Winterbottom was so confident in winning the game, Matthews was not needed and was therefore left out to rest for the later rounds.
Stanley Harding Mortensen Years 1947-53 Caps 25 Goals 23
The first goal against Chile in the 2-0 victory was scored by Stan Mortensen, it was England’s first ever goal in a World Cup Finals.
Mortensen scored four goals on his England début against Portugal in May 1947 and continued his scoring record for England with 23 goals in 25 appearances, phenomenal goals to games ratio, perhaps better than anyone on the World stage. The Blackpool man formed a great strike partnership with the glorious winger Stanley Matthews. Even though Matthews played a minor part in the 1950 Finals, Mortensen used his own power, strength and quickness to arrive timely in box to score the goals for club and Country.