‘There won’t be any regrets’: Bellamy steels Wales for last World Cup push
Before meeting with Bosnia and Herzegovina, head coach has
urged his players to step up and embrace the occasion
“Have you ever seen Usain Bolt in the 100m?” Craig Bellamy
asks a crowd of journalists at Wales’s hub in Hensol on the eve of the World
Cup playoff semi‑final against
Bosnia and Herzegovina. “He’s smiling, waving – all right, it does
help he knows he can run at 60% to win – but he has discovered the art of being
relaxed and calm to be able to run at his best speed. If you’re tense, you’re
fighting yourself.”
Bellamy has been there as a player but as a head coach,
while intense and fiercely driven, he believes cool heads will prevail at the
Cardiff City Stadium on Thursday and, if they get the right result, in the
playoff final at the same venue five days later. It is a message he has relayed
in each session, every conversation, since his squad gathered on Sunday.