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Coventry, Bradford, Ipswich, Hamburg.

Millwall have won two and drawn one of their three league games since their win over Liverpool, interspersed with a 5-0 slaughter of visiting Hamburg at the Lion King Stadium in the second game of the first group stage of the Champions League.

In the league, the relegation team was not so strong in terms of technical and tactical-for-tat, and it turned back to a tough battle, and only one of the three games unfortunately resulted in a draw, also because of the away game after the Champions League in midweek.

The Carabao Cup fell early this year, being knocked out by Liverpool, Metzelder was blown up by Owen, and Steven Gerrard also completed a wonderful performance, making Pedreti suffer in attack.

The cup was out and out, and Aldridge didn't really care.

After the match against Ipswich, the FIFA matchday is upon us again.

Aldrich, who was automatically ignored in the past, continues to be in the spotlight.

Don't talk about Fleet Street, fans all over England are focused on him.

A new England squad is waiting to be announced.

Unlike the other half of the World Cup European qualifiers, who play two group stages during this FIFA matchday, England will have a friendly and a third round of the group against Albania as they only have four opponents in the same group.

When Aldridge took charge a little over a month ago, he suggested to the FA that friendly opponents be contacted.

The FA didn't want to go to away friendlies because Aldridge had just taken over. It's easier to boost morale by fighting friendly matches on home soil. Abuse a dish. Then play the qualifiers.

However, Aldridge insisted that they contact the friendly opponents he listed, including Italy, Spain and other teams with only five teams in the same group, and there is no problem with the schedule.

The FA didn't dare to go to Italy, who were the runners-up in the European Championship, and finally contacted Spain to finalize the friendly match.

England's schedule for this FIFA match day is to train in London. The day before the friendly match, he flew to Spain and returned to London immediately after the friendly match to prepare for the upcoming qualifiers.

Before Aldridge's press conference, the England national team announced the new national team squad.

Goalkeepers: Seaman, James, Robinson.

Defenders: Gary Neville, Mills, Phil Neville, Southgate, Rio Ferdinand. Campbell, Brown. Ashley Cole, Bridge, Carragher.

Midfielders: Bart, Lampard, Gerrard, Scholes, Beckham, Barry, Joe Cole, McManaman, Hargreaves.

Forwards: Irving, Heskey, Alan Smith!

A total of 25 people.

Following Adams' withdrawal from the national team, 30-year-old Shearer also withdrew from the national team, 34-year-old Keown was not recruited, and Manchester United's Kerr was also dropped

When the outside world saw this new list, they were all confused.

Who is Hargreaves?

Is it okay to bring just three strikers?

Also, Alan Smith, when he played against Leeds United in Millwall last season, this man openly spat on Aldridge on the sidelines, and later received an FA overweight ticket, is it okay?!

At the press conference, Aldridge answered questions from reporters about the lineup.

'Hargreaves is an Academy player for Bayern Munich, he was spotted in our youth team against Bayern Munich about two years ago, I have convinced him to represent England for the England national team, he started playing for Bayern Munich first team this season, he has great potential, he is the role player that England need at this stage, but he is still young and needs to improve his quality.

"Striker? Three I think it's enough, as long as it's not that all three strikers are injured and can't play. Alan Smith? There's no problem between me and him, and if you think there is, you're questioning me and his professionalism. ”

"The goal? My goal is simple, train well, see the results through friendly matches, and then, win the game against Albania and talk about the rest. ”

Before taking office, Aldrich was very popular, and when he took office, it seemed that everyone was looking forward to it.

But after taking office, huge public opinion pressure came to the face, and the outside world seemed to have turned the gun, if Aldrich made the slightest mistake, they wanted to immediately crush him to ashes, not only to see his jokes, it is estimated that there are not a few people who maliciously expect him to be ruined.

Ride a donkey and read the record book, and we'll see!

The national team's training camp in London, Aldridge directly designated the Leo training base, and generously told the FA: the rent is free!

The FA loaned Wembley to Arsenal this season, but the issue of Wembley's rebuilding has been put on the table, lack of money, need money, open source and reduce expenditure, can save a sum of money, even if the deal is known Millwall is not lost, but it is still a favor for Aldridge to succeed.

The national team training camp, of course, will also attract attention from the outside world, which will help Millwall's popularity increase, as for the small amount of rent or something, you don't have to worry about it.

Twenty-five England internationals have arrived at Leo's training ground, some of them unfamiliar to the area, some of them are familiar with the road, there are places to stay, and the building has excellent training facilities, which have been rated very high for a long time.

They packed up their simple bags and changed into training jerseys and went to the training ground, before Aldridge showed up, Klinsmann and the rest of the coaching staff got to know the players one by one and introduced them to the main training work he was responsible for.

Aldridge was not late, but he arrived one step later, holding a report from the medical department in his hand, and after the group of international players arrived at the training base, they did a simple medical examination.

The situation is a bit less optimistic.

There is nothing wrong with the defenders, the midfielders are passable, but the forwards. Especially Owen. He got a bit injured for the new season. Immediately after recovering from injury, he attacked Liverpool and did not fall on the field, and his physical condition was not particularly ideal.

Aldridge came to the training ground with the report, and the players stood in two rows, if not as neat as the army, at least no one put on a posture.

It was the first time the new Three Lions boss had met with the national team, and Aldridge was presented with 25 faces with different eyes. There is fanaticism, anticipation, calmness, and confusion.

Aldridge said tepidly: "I believe you all know who I am, I won't introduce myself, and you should know the coaching staff." I am an advocate of humane management, where anyone has a problem, please speak up openly and honestly, like a man. Let's talk directly, don't hide it in our hearts. Don't speculate on the consequences of communication, if there is a problem, we will solve it together. First of all, when you come to the national team, the first thing you have to forget is the color of the jersey of your respective club, you play for different teams, you may have had conflicts and disputes on the field, whatever it is, forget all about it, put on the England national team shirt, you are teammates, you should trust each other, help each other collectively, what is the most important thing in the collective? Communication and tolerance, everyone has their own ideas, you can't expect teammates to have mind reading, when you need teammates to understand you, please tell your teammates what you think, only a team that can speak freely and communicate internally, can condense the basis of cooperation, instead of 11 players with different ideas fighting alone on the field, what I need is a strong team, a team where all of you are cohesive! ”

Aldridge's opening remarks made the players look at each other.

The hatred of the color of the jersey is very common in the national team, and it is familiar that the camp confrontation between Barcelona and Real Madrid is most obvious in the Spanish national team.

In the England team, Liverpool and Manchester United have the most profound contradictions, and the club is a sworn enemy.

The good news is that Liverpool does not have many players in the national team, at least Xiaobei can assist Owen, this kind of cooperation between Manchester United players and Liverpool players is rare to see at a certain time, and now, Aldridge is in a good situation.

'At the end of the year, we don't spend a lot of time in the national team, so I don't ask for much during this training and playing days, what to follow at club level, and the same with the national team. The following points I requested, first, during the national team training camp, no players can go in and out of entertainment venues, especially nightclubs, you should use the time outside of training and matches to rest, if you can't restrain yourself, then please leave. Second, I can't participate in commercial activities, I need the team to prepare for the national team game quietly, seriously and focusedly, which is the highest goal, and any off-field factors must not affect and distract you. Thirdly, the problems of the national team are solved internally, and information about the dressing room of the national team is leaked privately, which is the same as for the club, and here, there is no need for traitors. ”

Aldrich set the military rules, but did not talk about the training should not be lazy or anything like that, it seemed pediatric, too child's play.

Pulling out the England captain's armband from his pocket, Aldridge walked up to Southgate and handed him the armband, with the other players all eyes on Southgate.

'Gareth has been playing for the national team since '95, he's won a lot of honours at the club level, he's got a lot of experience at the top level, I can honestly say that I named him captain because I know him, I know his fighting spirit and his will, I'm sure he can captain the team and serve the England national team, if any of you think he shouldn't be captain, say it now, or do any of you think you can be better captain than him?

The captain of the England national team, this is an honour for the English players.

The other players looked at each other and said unconvinced?

Why are you not convinced?

People hold three league championship trophies, three European championship trophies, plus countless other small awards, this is unconvincing, isn't it their own foolishness?

If you think you can do it, come up with some evidence and convincing reasons!

Millwall, the captain of the strongest team recognized by European clubs as the captain of the national team, what is there to be questioned?

Aldrich also announced the appointment of the captain at the press conference, and Fleet Street didn't think there was a problem, and he didn't even ask, which was logical.

Of the 25 players England have recruited for this period, who could be more suitable to captain than Gareth Southgate?

The internationals began to applaud Southgate and congratulate Gareth Southgate as a new captain officially took up his post.

After everyone's applause stopped, Aldridge pointed at Beckham and said, "David, you are the vice-captain, please lead by example to assist Gareth." ”

Beckham smiled charmingly and asked, "There's a question, what should we call you?" ”

"Whatever, well, just call it a coach, I don't really care about that."

Aldrich replied casually.

There are clubs called heads, there are bosses, and managers are also common.

"Now, you guys do warm-up activities first, we have to train a lot more today, don't get injured due to insufficient warm-up." (To be continued......)