After a summer to get to grips with his new role, Craig Bellamy has announced his first squad as Wales boss for the upcoming fixtures against Turkey and Montenegro.
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00:00The first couple of weeks was new. Spent a bit of time trying to adjust, obviously not
00:07being on a pitch every day which is, you know, over the last seven years what I've been used
00:13to. But I've got to be honest, the last month, the last three weeks, the more you're looking
00:19at the squad, the more you're watching games, getting your stuff together as well has been,
00:25I've loved, I've really loved the last few weeks.
00:28This is Craig Bellamy's first time in charge of a football side and he says that there's
00:32one element he didn't think about, injuries. He says he now has to watch every game his
00:38players play with his fingers crossed, hoping there aren't any players picking up anything
00:42that can keep them sidelined.
00:44Every weekend you have fingers crossed, which is really rare, but it's, I could be talking
00:52about a different squad coming next weekend, it's that, it is that. So you're always like,
00:58you know, we have a lot of people watching a lot of games, I'm watching a game every
01:03weekend as well and then we have a conversation after it and honestly the first words are
01:08anyone pick up anything, everyone's fine.
01:11Bellamy was always known as a brash, in-your-face type player on the pitch, but during his time
01:16on the sideline he's clearly taken his own style of management and hopes that his tactics
01:21shine through, saying there is a lot of emphasis on his players fully understanding their jobs
01:26on the pitch.
01:27Do I want to win every game? Of course I do. But over this six-game period of this nation
01:32league, I want it to become so clear for the six games. Now, in order to do that there's
01:38going to be a lot of meetings because are we going to be the best physically or, I'm
01:45not sure. But tactically and the knowledge of what our players are going to be able to
01:50take on board, I believe that's what's going to give us an advantage. Where we can adapt
01:55in games, we don't lose 45 minutes, we don't lose 90 minutes because we can change, we
01:58can adapt.