On July 9, England international Foden pointed out that the entire team has been subject to criticism for a long time, and said that shutting out outside noise is key to helping the Three Lions win the championship.
Although England reached the semi-finals as desired, the whole process was bumpy and unsatisfactory. This also led to the head coach of the England team, Southgate, being questioned by the outside world. Foden said: “Actually, it’s not just our head coach, everyone in our team has been criticized by the outside world. But these are all part of the event, and shouldn’t be over-interpreted. Believe in everything we do on the training ground.”
Foden said England should shut out these critical voices: “If you want to achieve something, you need to shut out the noise. In fact, a lot of criticism doesn’t help us at all, you have to believe in what we’re doing. We need to keep achieving our ideal results, so as to prove the doubts of the outside world wrong. Maybe we should do better, we were a bit slow at the start, but in the game against Switzerland, we had a lot of positives, we want to play beautiful football.”
Foden also talked about the high expectations from the outside world for England: “Sometimes, people say we are the best team, we should be able to easily beat any opponent, but in fact it’s not like that, sometimes it’s very difficult to win, that’s football.”
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