[情報] 佐拉在沃特福德展望未來
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2298035/
Is Zola's next ticket a return to Chelsea? The man who takes the train to
work may find it hard to turn down Roman a second time
By Malcolm Folley - PUBLISHED:22:30 GMT, 23 March 2013
Gianfranco Zola barely warrants a second glance as he melts into the crowd
gathered on Bickley Station most mornings of the week.
While many of his fellow commuters from the affluent suburb in Kent head
for desks in the City, or offices in the West End, the 46-year-old
Italian's destination is further north at Radlett, the closest station to
Watford's training ground at London Colney, in Hertfordshire.
‘I prefer to make this journey by train than car. I am not sure if anyone
recognises me, because being early in the morning everyone on the train is
sleepy,’ he said with a chuckle last week.
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‘What I like, after all these years in London, is that the people here
respect you as a person, and they respect your privacy.’
Pretty soon Zola may have a new destination, for his next stop on a
distinguished footballing career could well be Chelsea, the club where he
made his Premier League name.
For now, though, his efforts are focused on gaining a place among that elite
for Watford. In eight months there, he has taken the club once dependent on
the patronage of Sir Elton John, and now owned by the Pozzo family from
Italy, to within two points of the two automatic promotion places to the
Premier League with eight matches left in the Championship.
At the beginning of next month, Zola's Watford meet the two clubs ahead of
them, Cardiff and Hull, in the space of five days.
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‘Those games are important because they will be six-pointers,’ he said,
slipping effortlessly into the argot of the Match of the Day pundits.
‘But we also need to perform against all the other teams. In this league
there are 46 games and they are all of the same intensity — like playing
against the top of the table all the time.’
Zola's modest demeanour is unchanged from the afternoons when his talent,
his goals, and his ready smile lit up Stamford Bridge, and beyond, for
seven seasons which culminated in him being voted the greatest player in
Chelsea history by the club's fans.
His passion for the game and his lust to succeed at Watford are evident in
his voice. ‘For the first three, four months, I did not sleep much,’ he
explained.
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He went to bed at midnight, and awoke bristling with ideas four hours
later.
‘It is an intense job. You have to be a step ahead, or have a good
reaction in place. I am at least starting to enjoy match days more.’
Zola is in his second management post, having been sacked at the end of
the 2010 season by West Ham.
‘I am not a guy who can hold grudges,’ he said. ‘West Ham was a
difficult experience, tough for somebody like me in his first job. I was
managing a Premier League team with a lot of responsibilities. I knew how
to handle the players on the pitch but outside the pitch is quite
different. I made some mistakes but I think I did a lot of good things.
‘I took the hard road, but the experience I have from two years managing
West Ham is worth five, or more, years of normal experience.’
He is the graduate of a Chelsea dressing room which, in his years at
Stamford Bridge, proved to be a breeding ground for managers.
Zola names them all: his Italian friend, Roberto di Matteo, who was sacked
this season after he brought the club's Russian oligarch owner Roman
Abramovich his most coveted prize last May, the Champions League trophy;
Dennis Wise, an irrepressible joker; Gianluca Vialli; Steve Clarke; Mark
Hughes; Gus Poyet; Didier Deschamps and Dan Petrescu.
‘It was always a fantastic dressing room, and the number of managers who
emerged tells you how many good football brains there have been at Chelsea
in this time,’ said Zola.
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Abramovich arrived shortly after Zola left the club to end his playing
days with Cagliari, back home in Sardinia. But the little Italian had
left an indelible footprint in West London that prompted Chelsea's
proprietor to go to Italy personally to tempt him into a return.
‘Mr Abramovich asked me to be part of Chelsea again but, at that moment,
I didn't even consider going into management as I didn't think I had the
necessary qualities,’ said Zola. ‘Mr Abramovich brought a lot of
resources, and very good players came in and the club became one of the
most successful in Europe. All I can say is the club deserve it. The way
they treated me, and all the others, was special.’
In May, Abramovich may yet cast an eye towards Zola again, because Chelsea
will be hiring once more since Rafa Benitez is assured of becoming
Chelsea's latest managerial casualty after the whistle signalling the end
of the season. ‘No one from Chelsea has spoken to me,’ said Zola,
making his point decisively.
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‘I am respectful for what Watford have done for me and I am focusing on
getting the job done here. I really don't know what is around the corner
for me, but whatever happens to me is all down to this experience because
I have to prove myself as a manager. I am enjoying what we are doing at
Watford... enjoying and learning.’
Zola's footballing philosophy, hammered out in English and Italian at the
London Colney training ground where his squad include 10 players on loan
from Udinese, the Italian club owned by the Pozzo family, reflects the
memories he cast across the English game as a player.
‘In football, there is a winner every year, but there are a few teams who
are remembered from the others,’ said Zola. ‘Normally, they are the ones
who play in a certain way, and they are respectful of the rules. For me,
fair play is an important value.’
He visited Barcelona during the days when Pep Guardiola, who begins
working his alchemy at Bayern Munich in the summer after taking a year's
sabbatical in New York, instilled a brand of football that has made Lionel
Messi the most valued and admired player of our times.
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‘I have been fortunate in my career to have had good managers like Arrigo
Sacchi, boss of the Italian national team, Nevio Scala at Parma, and Ruud
Gullit at Chelsea,’ said Zola, whose thirst for knowledge also took him
home to Italy to witness the methods of another man he respects, Zdenek
Zeman, when he was coaching Pescara.
‘But the coach who has had the biggest influence in the way I think of
football, and see football, is Guardiola.
‘You can't compare footballers from different generations. You cannot
compare Diego Maradona, my team-mate at Napoli, to Messi or Ronaldo, at
Real Madrid. But Messi is from another planet; and Ronaldo is very close
to him.’
At 46, Zola is coming to terms with the stress of management. ‘I have an
advantage because I have been a good footballer,’ he acknowledged. ‘But
if you don't say the right words to players they will only listen to you
for five minutes. They want to know you can do something to make them
better. That is the most important thing; at least it was for me.
http://tinyurl.com/at7o5zq 世界第一
http://tinyurl.com/aylxlfj 世界第二
‘I am sure the majority of the players love what they are doing. They are
not in the game just for the money. I start from the principle that when I
was playing for Chelsea I was on good money, yet that did nothing to take
away the pain caused when I was on the bench. I would have given my wages
back to be on the pitch.’
Last week Watford were told by the Football League that financial
misconduct and dishonesty by the club's previous owner, Laurence Bassini,
will require them to have all transfer activity this summer approved by
the league.
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‘The Pozzo family have ambitious ideas for this club,’ said Zola. ‘I
don't think this will be seen as a club where players are in transit, and
we will try to keep the ones from Udinese that we believe are good enough
to stay if they want to stay. Hopefully, there is a solution to the
embargo, too.’
The season is nearing its climax, but Zola will take his train from
Bickley with his mind primed for what lies ahead. ‘I speak in English on
the training ground,’ he said. ‘But if I have to explain something in
detail I switch to Italian. When I swear, it is in Sardinian!’
As a manager, Gianfranco Zola has become as much an asset to English
football as he was as a player brightening wintry days for Chelsea.
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