{"id":301036,"date":"2023-11-30T23:53:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T23:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=301036"},"modified":"2023-11-30T23:53:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T23:53:54","slug":"michael-owen-cant-sleep-wondering-how-golden-generation-didnt-win-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/michael-owen-cant-sleep-wondering-how-golden-generation-didnt-win-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Owen can’t sleep wondering how Golden Generation didn’t win anything"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Michael Owen has sleepless nights wondering how he never won trophies playing with England\u2019s \u2018Golden Generation\u2019. <\/p>\n

    In the late 90s and 2000s, Owen was part of sides eliminated at the quarter-finals in three major tournaments \u2013 despite their highly-rated players. The former striker, 43, reckons England had an \u201cunbelievable\u201d team but some players\u2019 actions stopped them achieving \u2013 such as David Beckham\u2019s red card in the 1998 World Cup.<\/p>\n

    He added: \u201cEngland have got a history of self-imploding. You just think, a lot of the tournaments we\u2019ve gone out, it\u2019s actually not necessarily for footballing reasons. So, of course I go to bed regularly thinking how didn\u2019t we win something with England \u2013 the teams that we had.\u201d<\/p>\n

    READ MORE: Michael Owen still 'resents' David Beckham for red card at 1998 World Cup <\/b><\/p>\n

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    Owen, who scored 40 goals for England, said he still \u201cresented\u201d Beckham after his sending-off in the 1998 quarters against Argentina. He said: \u201cHe made a mistake and you could say that contributed to us going out of the World Cup.\u201d <\/p>\n

    Owen also reckons Wayne Rooney, 38, getting sent off in the 2006 World Cup cost them dear. Despite Owen\u2019s goals, England at major tournaments was a tale of underachievement during his career.<\/p>\n

    Why didn't the 'Golden Generation' ever win a trophy? Tell us in the comments section below<\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n

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    The Three Lions went out to Argentina in the second round at the 1998 World Cup, the group stage at Euro 2000 and the quarter-finals under Sven-Goran Eriksson at the 2002 World Cup, Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup. Following Eriksson\u2019s departure, England then suffered the embarrassment of failing to qualify for Euro 2008.<\/p>\n

    Owen\u2019s national team high was undoubtedly his hat-trick in the famous 5-1 rout of Germany in 2001 during qualifying for the following year\u2019s World Cup. Owen went on to become only the fourth Englishman to win the Ballon d\u2019Or .<\/p>\n

    But the former Liverpool and Real Madrid striker told Simon Jordan\u2019s Up Front podcast: \u201cI wasn\u2019t the best player in the world when I won the Ballon d\u2019Or. But in a sense I was.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cRealistically I knew I wasn\u2019t the best in the world. You had the likes of Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane playing at that time \u2013 there were better players than me. However, when I stepped on the pitch I felt like I was the best. But when I sit here today, I know that there were better players than me at the time.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI think footballers were more pure back in the day. Now you have to be an athlete, you have to be able to run, you have to be big and you have to be fast. If Matt Le Tissier, one of the most gifted players of our time, were playing today, would he even get into a team?\u201d<\/p>\n