Wayne Rooney was England captain during their 1-0 defeat to Brazil yesterday, something he never thought would happen.
With captain and vice-captain, John Terry and Rio Ferdinand, both out injured, Fabio Capello trusted Rooney with the responsibility.
“I remember the best players in the world – Pele, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Platini – were captains, no? They scored goals. So why not Rooney? I don’t understand why he cannot also be captain. You have to be a leader on the pitch and all the best players were captains. Maradona is another example.”
Indeed, Fabio.
“It was a great moment for me to lead the side out, something I was really proud of,” said Rooney. “When you are a young kid, you dream of captaining England but never think it will happen. Tonight it has happened and I’m proud, and my family will feel the same, but I don’t think it was the best game we have played. We can do a lot better. The first half was quite even, but in the second half they were the better side and deserved the victory. We looked tired at the end. We did okay, but we can do better.”
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Now get back to your form of 18 years old because frankly hes regressed…no doubt
He will definitely be the future captain of this club, no doubt about that. He has every right to be one, just needs a few more years to mature more and not let his anger get to him. At the moment I assume everyone would want Fletcher to captain the team.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/england/6571179/Henry-Winter-Wayne-Rooney-takes-lead-role-in-his-stride-and-eclipses-Kaka.html
Offtopic, but apparently there really is a new premier league rule that states every manager will have to speak to the BBC and newspaper reporters otherwise will recieve punishments. Wonder what SAF will think of this.
Wayne Rooney please follow in the footsteps of Paul Scholes. United > Ingurland
Fze123 – I think if thats the case then Fergie will send Patrice Evra for the post-match comments. Evra’s the perfect spokesperson of our club.
Captaining England? That implies leadership. Leadership implies that there are people who are being lead, people who are following. I don’t see that with England. I see Rooney putting everything into every game, because that’s what he does, but I do not see that effort being mirrored in the rest of the team. Are they really happy to just be a supporting cast? For most of them, seems so. The saddest thing is that you’ve got players like Gareth Barry who play for completely worthless clubs who get the chance to play for a national side and they still phone it in.
If I was Cappello I’d be looking to get as many United players into that England side as possible if only to try to establish some semblance of a work ethic.
Just wanting to add as I don’t think it was perhaps clear enough in my post (d’oh), I think Rooney is going to make an amazing United captain, and I think he could be an amazing England captain. But given what he’s got to work with in the England squad these days he might be better off just replacing them with cardboard cutouts on wheels.
@ SULLY
You’re right about Evra being the perfect spokesperson, but I think the new rule states the manager has to personally talk to them, which probably means even Mike Phelan won’t be able to talk to the BBC. It seems like the Fucking Arseholes and the PL board are trying to do everything they can to wrench SAF’s authority of him.
@ Doghouse
“he might be better off just replacing them with cardboard cutouts on wheels.” Spot on mate. Most of the players in the ingerland squad are mostly utd’s. Rio, Brown, Neville, Rooney, Carrick, Foster, Hargreaves. If Capello can fit in all of them in a ingerland team alongside a few other players from other PL clubs they’d be winning for once and Rooney can captain them as about 7 of them are his utd teammates.
capello, good choice on picking rooney as captain
capello, bad choice of comparing him to diego “hand of the twat” maradona
The only comparison he said with Maradona was that he was a captain that scored goals… that was it….
I think Rooney should be the next Utd captain, once giggs, nev and rio stop playing as much. Rooney is probably 4th on the list of england captains too unfortunately.
@drabik
cheers, mate! yeah i get it but, i just hate maradona!
don’t want that insane drug addict bastard’s name mentioned ever. citing him as a an example of goal scoring captains, in reference to wayne being one also, is still too much for me!
@ drabik
btw, who do you have as the top 3 england captain candidates before wayne.
i assume obviously that the current captain, forgot his name, is top.
#2 rio? #3? #4 wayne?
As much as I hate Ingerlund, he is suited to the role. Club before Country though Wazza, I want to see your best form for United for many years to come.
well well there’s something i really like about Rooney’s words. He started with his dream to be the captain, but ended it with four “we”. That shows how selfless he is, how he is always putting the team first. Being able to fulfill his dream is nothing if they play that bad as a team. Genius.
@ rooninho
#1 Mr Chelsea
#2 Rio
#3 Stevie Me
#4 Rooney
@kash
oh yeah, stevie “the model citizen” me. i guess capello would give him the nod over wazza.
what a perfect role model for english kids!
honestly, i completely forgot he played for england due to his complete lack of influence on the national team’s results. – not joking!
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/15112009/58/premier-league-foster-unhappy-united.html
“Edwin is one of the best keepers in the world. I can’t really go knocking on the manager’s door and say he is not doing his job because he is.”
If he is unhappy, at least he is also realistic.
Ok Wayne , calm down – calm down , all we care about is United , the same fans who love you when you are playing for England ( and risking injury that affects our league results ) will boo you when we play their teams , we’ve seen it all before with our players . The biggest thing a United player can do ( English ) is retire from international football , club , club , club , that’s all that matters.
theres only one captain rooney
theres only one captain rooney
he’s quick, he’s strong
prefers granny panties to thongs
walking in a captain rooney wonderland
@oswin
hahaha
Where did you get the granny panties bit from?
All great players have got their names on the lips of kids. Hear kids even far away Africa mention rooney’s name always, especially when they score during games. His maturity lately has made him the perfect role model. Roo-n-ey!!! On the list though, i think lampard might come after stevie me.
good luck to him i say