Thursday, August 11, 2005

Jose: "I have a Heart"

Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho admits he will feel guilty if some of his players fail to make next summer's World Cup finals in Germany.

Mourinho called for calm among his players if some of them find themselves sitting on the sidelines in the early part of the new Barclays Premiership campaign.

Mourinho fears that they will panic over their chances of reaching the finals if they are out of favour.

The Chelsea coach said: "I think all of them have the ambition to go and I told them that, if some don't go, I will feel a little guilty.

"I will feel part of it, part of the success and part of the disappointment, so I want to help them all to go.

"The motivation is high but they have to control their emotions. I can look ahead and guess that in two or three weeks time players will be very worried because they are not playing and cannot be out of the side before the World Cup next summer.

"But choices will be made between January and April and in that time, everyone will be playing.

The Portuguese continued: "Joe Cole, Robert Huth, Tiago, Ricardo Carvalho will be worried but they have to control their emotion and know that, first of all, their national coach trusts them.

"All of them will play matches. I remember Mateja Kezman saying at the end of last season that he did not have any chances for Chelsea, he was never the first choice and so on.

"He played 37 matches so you can imagine."

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