Fabio Capello has pinpointed Spain's strengths ahead of the World
Cup, believing their confidence makes them hard to beat.
The European champions are the bookmakers' favourites to win
this summer's competition in South Africa and Capello can
understand why they are highly fancied to make an impression.
He explained in an exclusive interview with Gol Television:
"Spain have a confidence, a system of play that makes it difficult
to beat them - and they don't rely on one player to score the
goals."
Asked who else has the potential to win the World Cup,
Capello continued: "Brazil I think are a team who are very
difficult to beat and Argentina have improved a lot since they
qualified.
"Us, and as always the Germans and Italians. Another team who
are very good are Holland, they are young, have good players and
could be a danger. But I have a lot of confidence in my team. "
Capello has been impressed by the form of James Milner and
Wayne Rooney during the current campaign.
The Italian explained: "This season the player who has
improved most has been Milner. He's played three or four games for
us and forms part of the national team.
"Rooney has scored a lot of goals this season. He's also
scored a lot of goals with us but this season he's been impressive.
I hope he maintains the same form until South Africa.
"He is like a bull, he's strong, he started playing at 16
with Everton and now he's matured and ready for all the games."
On England's preparations, Capello said: "We are preparing
very well.
"We have managed to find a very good site in South Africa and
beforehand we are going to Austria to a place I know very well and
have been to with Real Madrid and Roma - and for this I think that
it will be a good build-up.
"But the most important thing is that our good players are
physically well because they are the players who make the
difference."
Capello admits the Achilles injury which will keep David
Beckham out of the competition is a blow - but confirmed the
veteran could still play a part in the dressing room.
He said: "We've had the problem of Beckham being injured,
he's an important player for us because he is a player who is
always ready to play. He's willing to play 10 minutes, 15 minutes
or half-an-hour. He's a very important player in the dressing room.
"He's a player who is a symbol and that's why he was a very,
very important player. We've asked him if he wants to come with us
to South Africa, he could be with us there. It depends on him and
the how tendon is. "
The Italian also refuted claims midfielders Steven Gerrard
and Frank Lampard cannot play in the same England team.
Capello added: "I think that good players can always play
together but it depends a lot on the form of everyone because in
the national team you need to play those who are in the best shape.
"They are important players, they are very good, and for that
reason I think they can play together because a lot of the time
they can decide a game."
