Kazakhstan boss warns England

Storck hoping to spring surprise

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Kazakhstan boss warns England

Storck: Determined

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Kazakhstan coach Bernd Storck has urged his men to play without fear and take the game to England at Wembley.

Storck has made wholesale changes to his side and England are unlikely to have much knowledge about the players they will line up against.

However, Storck is confident that Kazakhstan can make life difficult for Fabio Capello's team in Saturday's World Cup qualifier.

"We are 100 places away from England, not interesting for Capello to know my players," said Storck.

"The players have nothing to lose against big team like England, we want to attack and be aggressive, when have chance we are going to go forward. Players must play without fear, then we can show what we can do.

"In our last game we didn't attack and this wasn't enough for Kazakhstan. I saw we had good players in Under-21s and I couldn't understand why we didn't have them in the first team.

"I threw some players out, those who don't play in their city teams, and I think the current are better players than the last squad.

"This is not a gamble, I am realistic, these are very good players."

Nonsense

Storck has also warned England that it would dangerous for them not to take Kazakhstan seriously, and has voiced his irritation at the constant references to comedy character Borat.

He said: "The Borat film is nonsense, it is not like Kazakhstan. This is not the character of Kazakhstan's people. We are a serious country and are not to be compared with the film.

"Kazakhstan is a very big country with very nice people. It's a rich country with oil and gas, we have 15.5million people there."

Storck has ordered his players not to show too much respect to England, adding: "If they look to change shirts straight away I will be upset.

"I'd rather buy them a shirt myself. This is not an important thing, they can swap in the tunnel.

"The players that go to Rooney or Beckham straight after the final whistle would never play again."