Tuesday 6 December 2016 11:35, UK
Roy Hodgson says he would make England players repeat instructions back to him and suggested some did not understand what he wanted from them.
The 69-year-old, who left his role as national team boss in the summer after England's Euro 2016 exit at the hands of Iceland, said he did that to try to make sure his message was getting across to players.
However, even though England training sessions would be filmed and coaches would hold meetings with players, Hodgson has suggested that some did not understand what he wanted from them.
"One of the things I've learned in the last two years was overestimating players' understanding of exactly what you want," Hodgson told UEFA coaching magazine The Technician. "You have to make certain that they themselves take ownership of the situation.
"In the last couple of years with England, we filmed the training sessions, we filmed the games in wide angle, and we started having meetings in smaller groups.
"The goalkeepers and the defenders. The midfield players and the attackers. Sometimes defenders and midfield players. Sometimes midfield players and attackers. We went through things but we got them to tell us back what we had been telling them."
Hodgson re-iterated that he wanted players to take "ownership" for their actions and dissect decisions in a bid to learn from errors.
"We will work on it in training but then I want the player in the unit meeting, when he sees fit, to say: 'I should have gone out there, I should have gone quicker there'.
"Or 'I've gone too fast. I should have slowed down there. I've gone so quickly that the guy's gone past me before I can hold him up with the ball'. That type of thing. We got the players to take ownership."
