JOHN TERRY & HARRY MAGUIRE
JOHN TERRY AND HARRY MAGUIRE: WHAT IT TAKES TO REACH THE NEXT LEVEL Kem Cetinay sat down with WOW HYDRATE ambassadors John Terry, Former England and Chelsea FC Captain, and Harry Maguire, Manchester United and England centre-back, to talk about leadership, handling pressure and how to take performance to the next level. KC: What do you think it takes to be a captain? JT: I think the on-field stuff has to take care of itself, so those little bits of turning up on time, doing the right thing every day, doing what the manager says, setting those tones and those tempos every single day are massive for the manager. If he’s got his captain not doing all of those bits, that leaves him in a sticky situation. Off the field stuff, obviously setting examples, and doing the right stuff at the right times really. HM: I think John has summed it up well. I think you’ve got to be responsible on the pitch, but also off the pitch as well. You can’t be turning up late, you’ve got to be the first in the training ground. You have got to be seen doing the extra bits, in the gym, and people follow you but yeah I think on the pitch you want consistency, you want availability. KC: Does it feel like a lot of pressure as a centre back, as you’re the heart and soul of the defence? How do you handle that pressure taking that armband on? JT: I personally quite enjoyed it. I think why you see a lot of defenders and centre halfs having the arm band is because they pretty much see the whole game so the communication side, you’re seeing everything. You see things develop and evolve in front of you that you can nip in the bud or you can pull people in like I 26 | OTFF ISSUE 19 ★ APRIL 2022
used to – pull people in those positions where you don’t get caught one on one or the team don’t get overloaded, those kind of things. If you had a striker [as captain] – strikers are very selfish and how they process things – and midfielders are the engines of any team, I think with centre halfs they have the consistency, that concentration level. KC: As a centre back have you got to be very disciplined? HM: Yes for sure, discipline in a lot of areas. Obviously off the pitch but also on the pitch as well you know as a centre
back you have got to be disciplined, you can’t be rash, you can’t be getting silly red cards all the time. KC: How was it getting to the Euros Harry? It must have been an incredible experience. HM: We put huge responsibility on ourselves as a group, having come off the back of World Cup semi final we knew that we had to go further and we had to push and try and get that trophy and the lads did everything they could, and obviously a penalthy shoot out stopped us from lifting the trophy which ➡
