Fabio Capello - It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion

It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion about it when I went to Scotland to see Andy Roxburgh. I worked with a Scottish youth side and had them do the same drills I would do in Italy. I realised that, between the wind, the rain and the cold, there was no way they could do it. How can you possibly teach anybody anything in those conditions? To me, it's pretty obvious and it explains why Brazilians are more technical than Europeans and, in Italy, the further south you go the more technical they are.

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Marcotti, Gabriele. Capello: The Man Behind England's World Cup Dream. Bantam Books, 2008, p. 132.

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