‘I don’t feel a lot of pressure in general’published at 14:45 Greenwich Mean Time
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England manager Thomas Tuchel on if he feels any pressure to win the World Cup: “I don’t feel a lot of pressure in general. I feel the pressure but mostly I feel it as a privilege and mostly I don’t feel it at all because I am in the tunnel preparing the match and once it is there I feel the pressure. I feel the pressure when it comes to semi-finals and finals, I have the experience of feeling the pressure. I need it also in my coaching career to adapt to that and find methods to cope with it. It has helped me to have the experience in it.
“We have only six camps and that is why I was so strong on the point to bond with each other. It is also my responsibility to stay connected in between camps. To visit the players and call the players but the players between each other, they need to stay connected and take care of each other between camps. Otherwise it will not be enough just six times, 10 days, will not be enough to create a togetherness and the special atmosphere that is needed once we hopefully arrive in the US.
“Thinking about what we have to do and what the outcome is does not help us. The only thing that helps is worshipping every single day we have. The players did exactly that from Monday. It was a pleasure to be a part of it. It is not over, it is just the start.”
