Craig Bellamy: Chief of Wales brings fun and excitement in search of the World Cup qualification | Football news

Sky Sports News Older Reporter Geraint Hughes explains an influence manager that Craig Bellamy has with Wales and why they have to qualify for the 2026 World Cup …

I caught up with a person who previously hired Craiga Bellamy, executive director Faw -a Noel Mooney. I said to him, “Going pretty well, better than you thought?”

Now it is barely the most challenging question I have ever asked, but the answer to that was definitely cheeky. Mooney replied, “Better yet … He is (Bellamy) just obsessed with football, training, meetings, I think we have a football genius on our hands.”

It was a deadpan answer. There was no smile, that was a true answer.

Beautiful things are often said when things go well, and for Mooney and Wales things are going well. The women’s side is in the Euro 2025 this summer, until the male side under Bellamy lost the match, promoted to the league and in the League of Nations and is safe to enter into the 2026 World Cup qualification is no problem.

Still, genius is a loaded word, just like a legend. It is often excessively used and definitely used too early in any eulogy.

However, what if Craig Bellamy is a British coach who only has these football and communication qualities?

He will go under the radar to a graduation because he is British, and his first job manager is with a national side, unlike the club, but there is increasing excitement around Bellamy.

It brings traps, and these downs can be tall and sharp.

From Bellamy’s words and body speech, I think he is well aware of falling in football, and I also think he will quickly reject any hyperbole around him. I don’t think he thinks he’s the next ‘Pep’, ‘Klopp’ or Wunderkind. Once again he described himself as ‘rookie’, so he is not a big head, comprehensively if nothing else.

What Bellamy knows is that he will get the best of his players from Wales, so that he achieves what executive director and the Fawa Committee want – qualify for the 2026 World Cup. With all the prestigious and wealth it brings – he must be constantly on warning, constantly strengthening, constantly, in the whole minute, and not, and not if they plan, They plan to plan, therefore, to plan.

He also reminded me of the power of peaceful, something that does not come to most of us in situations that they will not plan or are stressful.

Listening to Bellamy before their first qualifying World Cup, I lost the number of time when he mentioned the words “calm” or “calmness”. His point was intended to withdraw against the public (and the media), expecting a light, comprehensive victory over Kazakhstan.

This is what Bellamy wants, but his point was to say, “What if he won’t plan it? There’s no point in panic … Stay calm. Make basics and go again and more often than not, you’ll get rewards.”

In terms of how much Bellamy feels that Wales is for this qualifying campaign, he is grateful that he had a whole week with players for preparation, but emphasizes the peculiarities of football, and especially international football.

He said it was a rugby or a cricket campaign, he would have been players for months in advance, but with football it is only for days. However, the preparation is crucial and I have been told several people around him day by day, that some stones remained Bellamy and his staff.

The calm to which it can insist, but the intensity it requires.

It is clear in training that no one spends for a second. The team meetings are an informative highway, and the players not just bought in Bellamy, but also on their way.

Captain Ben Davies clearly made it clear how nervous he and many players at the 2022 World Cup as he pulled it out for Wales, the feeling that they “leave something out” of the grids. So, the qualifying for the world baths to return is a huge motivator for players only.

Then is Bellamy genius?

It’s too early to say and it’s not fair to say it really, but it’s fun and exciting when someone and something refreshes our thinking.

What may show a great faith is that Faw has in Bellamy, the belief that he has tools to leave Wales to the 2026 World Cup. And that would be very useful for the executive director, in many ways!

The bigger picture plan for Wales is not only to qualify for the World Cup in the next year, but also to have an impact, which means to leave the group and maybe take a large scalp during the Nokaut stage, but I’m going in front of me, maybe I’m not the only one.

Play by play, stay calm.