Neville to stay on with England
By Phil McNulty Chief football writer in Baden Baden
http://tinyurl.com/h7nh9 (BBC)
Gary Neville insists he will continue his England career despite the
crushing disappointment of losing to Portugal on penalties at the
World Cup.
The 31-year-old Manchester United defender has suffered the same penalty
fate four times in major tournaments.
"I've always said I'll never retire from international football. It's not
Gary Neville's right," he said.
"While I'm still playing football for any club then I'm available to play
for my country. That's the way it is."
And he is backing England to bounce back from another tournament where
they have failed to live up to expectations.
He said: "England always go again. What else can we do? You can't give
in and say this is it, we are going to stop playing football.
"This is a proud footballing nation. It has suffered more than this and
I am sure it will suffer again, but we must move on, move forward."
Neville added: "We could have won. There was not a negative thought in
my head about losing until Cristiano Ronaldo scored the final penalty.
"We lost, we suffer, but we pick ourselves up. It is the English mentality
- you fight back, you don't give anything away.
"You suffer after defeats like this, but even in victory when you are
elated, you still have to move on and that's what we have to do."
And Neville still expects big things from the current crop of England
players.
He said: "I still think there is a little bit left in the golden
generation. I don't think this is the end of the golden generation.
"I just think this World Cup was a really big chance for us. It was on
European soil and we cruised through to the quarter-final without even
having to perform.
"This was the night when we were going to have to be measured, where we
were going to have to deliver, and for one reason or another we didn't
win the game."
Neville added: "People will suggest we are not good enough and you can't
argue with that because we have gone out again.
"There can't be excuses. This is my fifth tournament and we have gone out
on penalties four times.
"You can't have excuses every time. You can maybe say you were unlucky
once, but you can't keep saying it and I'm certainly not going to say
that after this."
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內維爾誓不退出英格蘭國家隊 老臣忠心表露無遺
2006-07-05 14:45:58
在2006年的世界盃後，不少傷心的失意者選擇了離開國家隊，比如捷克的內德維德
。但英格蘭的加裡內維爾卻表示，他絕對不會主動從國家隊退役，而是會一直堅持到國
家隊不再需要他的那一刻為止——但他同時也承認，這屆世界盃，或許將會成為他的世
界盃絕唱。
加裡內維爾似乎從來都是世界盃上的失意者。2002年的韓日世界盃前他受傷而沒有
被招進國家隊，這屆世界盃他又受了傷一直與只為英格蘭踢了兩場比賽。而2010年的南
非世界盃，已經35歲的加裡內維爾大概是不可能再出現在世界盃市場上了。
儘管在他的職業生涯中，加裡內維爾已經獲得了無數的榮譽，但他說自己仍然有極
其強烈的求勝慾望為英格蘭奪取世界最高桂冠。他說，「也許這屆世界盃將是我的最後
一屆世界盃，但我一直在說，我絕對不會自己從國家隊退役。加裡內維爾沒有權利選擇
什麼時候離開國家隊。如果我還可以為任何俱樂部踢球，那麼我的國家就可以隨時征招
我。這就是我過去一直行事的方式，而未來，也是一樣。」
(網易體育)