Manchester City’s coach, Pep Guardiola, nominated the England national team to win the 2024 European Championship, scheduled for next summer in Germany, after failing to win major tournaments by a narrow margin.
Under the leadership of its current coach, Gareth Southgate, England qualified for the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and the quarter-finals of the 2022 edition in Qatar, and also advanced to the final of the 2020 European Championship before losing to Italy.
Guardiola said that the England national team’s performance is similar to City’s performance in the Champions League, which City won for the first time in its history last season, after failing more than once.
The Spanish coach told reporters before his team’s Premier League match against Wolverhampton later on Saturday: “The national team? Really good. But it depends not only on the talent of the attackers, but on all aspects and the whole group. Gareth knows exactly what he has to do.” .
Pep added: “I feel, and everyone feels, that the England team in the recent tournaments, the World Cup and the European Championship, made great strides and was actually on the cusp of being crowned champions. They lost in the final and qualified for the semi-finals.
When you reach these stages every two years, success will be achieved, and this is exactly like our situation. We came close and in the end we lifted the cup. This is certain.
He continued: “If they have confidence in their ability to achieve it, they will achieve it. I have confidence in that and they will achieve it.”
In Euro 2024, which starts next June 14, England will play in a group that includes Slovenia, Serbia and Denmark.
