Source: Eurosport
Becks hails Capello impact
David Beckham has hailed the impact made on the England squad by Fabio Capello and insisted "progress has been made in every game" under the Italian.
England are on the verge of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals after a 6-0 drubbing of Andorra in midweek maintained a 100% record in their group. Victory over Croatia at Wembley in early September will almost certainly mean Capello can start planning early for South Africa next summer.
Beckham said: "We have ended the season on a high. That is what we wanted to do. You can't get any better than seven wins out of seven. Now we all go away for a few weeks' break and we can enjoy it."
He added: "When we didn't qualify for the European Championships, that was a really disappointing time for us. Now we are happy although we still haven't qualified for the World Cup.
"We will be happy once we do that and then we can go on from there. We have shown in every game that there has been progress and against Andorra was the same.
"It could have been a difficult game but we made it easy for ourselves with the way we played and our professionalism.
"What is at the heart of England's progress? The manager and the management staff, the way they have brought the professionalism into the team and the hard work.
"The players have responded to everything the manager has asked of us. He has got great respect for this game and we work hard for him and that is a good recipe for the seven wins we have got so far."
