The new team of the famous English striker suffered a serious defeat
The Championship, the second strongest division in English football, started on Saturday. Ahead is a long marathon of 46 rounds, which will determine the newcomers to the English Premier League. In the first round, the biggest score was recorded in Sheffield, where Sheffield Wednesday defeated Plymouth Argyle with a score of 4:0.
It would seem, what’s wrong? After the results of the last championship, the twentieth team defeated the twenty-first. But the point is in the personality of the visiting coach. This is none other than the famous Wayne Rooney. Of course, Rooney was famous as a footballer for Manchester United and the English national team. Wayne’s coaching career is not going as he would like.
Three lumpy pancakes
When Rooney was still playing and had no intention of hanging up his boots, he was expected to have a successful coaching career. So many years of working with Alex Ferguson should not have gone by without a trace. Of course, Wayne is not the only one who played with Sir Alex. But many experts have identified him as a potential coach. And Ferguson himself has noted in the striker the qualities of a potential helmsman. In addition, Rooney has a special charisma. Try to disobey this.
Plymouth Argyle is the fourth club in the biography of the 38-year-old specialist. Rooney began his coaching career at the club where he finished playing: Derby County. Wayne worked with the Rams for a year and a half. In the first season, his team finished 21st and miraculously remained in the championship. But the following year, the Derby of the Songs followed. Rooney also left the team.
Wayne did not remain inactive for long. They did not forget about him in Washington, where he played for Washington DC United. There the Englishman lasted about the same time as Derby. The result is so-so. The capital club did not reach the playoffs MLSat the end of which the former black and red player was thanked for his work. Two days later, Rooney was already in Birmingham, where he hosted the local Birmingham City.
The Birmingham page is still small in the biography of coach Wayne Rooney. He lasted less than three months at St. Andrews. If you count in matches, these are 15 meetings. In these 15 matches, the Blues suffered 9 defeats and two victories. Therefore, on the second day of the new year 2024, Wayne received a deal. It is not known whether he was thanked for his work. But what is there to be grateful for? Birmingham never recovered and eventually left the championship.
I want to grow up
Wayne was unemployed for almost six months. He was never a leader of the regime even when he was a player. And when he was unemployed, even more so. I gained ten kilos more and at 38 I look fifty. Put photos of Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo next to each other. They are the same age, but they look like people from different generations.
But in May, Rooney’s enforced inactivity ended. Wayne was recalled to Plymouth, whose club, Plymouth Argyle, have struggled to stay in the Championship. Rooney’s predecessor, former England youth coach Ian Foster, worked with the Greens to much the same success as Wayne had at Birmingham. The former England striker hasn’t been given any grand objectives other than staying in the Championship, and that would be a good thing.
Wayne has been active all summer. He commentated on England’s games at the Euros, criticised Gareth Southgate and the national team players. He’s fantastic, he can do it. It is not known whether he was the one who moved the bags. Probably yes, if the “green” retreat had taken place in time.
Before the start of the championship, Rooney gave an interview to The Guardian newspaper. Where, among other things, he said that during the period of forced inactivity he couldn’t wait to get back to work. In general, he has always dreamed of becoming a coach. And not just a coach, but a great one. And he doesn’t want to be the new Gary Neville, who criticizes everything and everyone,
It needs an eye and an eye
But not everyone believed in Rooney’s success. Including his wife Colleen, whom he has known since school and has been married since 2008. They are raising four children. And I must say that Colin sometimes had a hard time, because her husband, the star, was not a fool to drink, and was involved in various bad stories. But we must pay tribute to the woman who endured binges and binges for the sake of her family. However, she refused to move from her home in Presbury, Cheshire, to Plymouth, Devonshire. She explained that Wayne is unlikely to remain in the role of mentor of the “greens”, and therefore there was no point in contracting. In addition, older children go to school.
But at the same time, Colleen asked her relatives who live in Plymouth to take care of her husband. Because she knows Wayne’s character and habits. Especially after he entered Road accidentbeing quite drunk and even with a certain girl in the car.
During pre-season, Plymouth played five games, winning four and drawing only once. Judging by the reports, the “greens” looked very good. But Rooney’s first official game as head coach of Plymouth Argyle was unsuccessful. Four goals conceded, but nothing in return. One of the four “greens” scored in his own net. The Plymouth manager was furious. After the game, Rooney said:
I’m disappointed, angry and surprised. Surprised considering everything we saw in the preseason. The basic aspects of the game were not good enough, whether it was fighting for the ball, whether it was fighting, whether it was aggressive. We had a game plan, but we didn’t execute it at all, so it’s time for all of us to wake up.
Now bookmakers are starting to bet on how long Rooney will last at Home Park (Plymouth’s home ground): 15 games, like in Birmingham, or even less. And the club itself has been reminded that both English teams the once-famous striker worked with have been relegated from the Championship. Will Plymouth Argyle finish third?
