30th June 1998, Saint Etienne, France. England play Argentina in the Second Round of the 98 World Cup, a golden generation were born. Now fast forward twelve years to a cold winters sunset in South Africa, this so called group of players surely waved goodbye to ever lifting that trophy, that was so surely hyped to be within their grasp.Reminiscent of that night in France, this time around everything seemed to be so promising, then a young talented Michael Owen scored a goal that will be in the World Cup scrapbooks for years to come. In 2010, England again showed a lot of potential but they bowed out with Joe Montana Jersey a whimper. This golden generation seems very near to hanging up their shirts and leaving the limelight of international football tagged as perennial underachievers and/or a bunch of Prima Donnas.The genuine problem England had this World Cup was the fact that they were void in technical ability and the amount of blame being shunted onto Fabio Capello is out of proportion even though he made himself look more like Fabio Cr-apello instead Arik Armstead Jersey of Don Fabio. The real problem lied within the technical ability of the players or maybe the lack of it. England fans will surely have nightmares until the next World Cup about midfield maestros like Bastien Schweinsteiger dancing around Frank Lampard and genuine trequartista Mezut Ozil picking up space in between the lines.Englands prospects for the future are looking bleak, with a limited pool of quality players to choose from, picking an England team in the next World Cup would be as hard as picking apples off a pear tree.There is a huge problem at gra s roots level in England and to succeed in international football technical ability is a must. For the long term succe s of England on an international stage coaches must deviate from their criterion for selection. With the Premier League becoming a marketing ploy, teams participating in the Champions League are not willing to take the risk with English players as they lack the skill required to play in major European football.Look at Arsenal for example, they have been searching for young talent that fit into their style of football and to play their brand of football, technicality is crucial. As English players have Colin Kaepernick Jersey not developed technical ability at gra s roots level they are not willing to take the risk and these English players are being forced to play for le ser clubs and therefore they do not have the required experience and know how to take the international stage by storm.Coaches at gra sroot levels in England should acquire the criterion for selection in which coaches in the Spanish La Liga have been using for a very long time. This has led to an enormous pool of talent to choose from and it has also been proved succe sful for the national team as they won Euro 2008. The differences between the major criterion for selection in Spain and England are that in Spain coaches are willing to take risks with small technically gifted players such as Xavi and Iniesta. Whereas in England coaches prefer to pick players that have dominant physical attributes and they tend to disregard technical ability. There is serious doubt about whether Lionel Me si would ever Marquise Goodwin Jersey have been profe sional if he was scouted in England. These differences are detrimental in international succe s and other European countries have began to look at this.Even though the English golden generation produced a lot of World Cla s players, these players were over-dominant on physical attributes. Players like Lampard and Gerrard who are cream of the crop in the Premier League also tend to be top heavy on physical characteristics such as power. They do not have the technical ability a la a Xavi or a Kaka who are of a similar age. It is probably po sible to count the number of skilful English players of this golden generation on one hand whereas with Spain you would probably run out of fingers and toes to count with.If the English addre s the problem at the cause of infection instead of when it spreads, the English national team will Garrett Celek Jersey continue to pay huge salaries to managers and then cause a fiasco and fire them. But if the problem is not addre sed, Three Lions will look more like Three Meerkats and they will be left to chase an accelerating rate at which football is moving.