Fewer stars, more team players -- that's the way to win one of the world's biggest football tournaments, according to Owen Hargreaves.
Ahead of Saturday's draw for the 2016 European Championship in Paris, former England international Hargreaves believes many teams are missing a trick by not focusing more on togetherness rather than individual brilliance.
It's a failing that Hargreaves reckons England have been guilty of in the past by trying to cram too many star names into the squad.
And he points to the Greece team which stunned the football world by winning the European Championship finals in 2004 to back up his argument.
Without any household names, Greece was not expected to achieve anything of note in Portugal but ended up defeating the host nation in the final.Friday, December 18, 2015
The secret to success
Fewer stars, more team players -- that's the way to win one of the world's biggest football tournaments, according to Owen Hargreaves.
Ahead of Saturday's draw for the 2016 European Championship in Paris, former England international Hargreaves believes many teams are missing a trick by not focusing more on togetherness rather than individual brilliance.
It's a failing that Hargreaves reckons England have been guilty of in the past by trying to cram too many star names into the squad.
And he points to the Greece team which stunned the football world by winning the European Championship finals in 2004 to back up his argument.
Without any household names, Greece was not expected to achieve anything of note in Portugal but ended up defeating the host nation in the final.
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