World Cup dreams: Inspiring a nation through soccer
|St George's Park (CNN)On a bleak December day, inside an indoor training pitch with as much coziness as an igloo, toes are quickly becoming numb in the bone-chilling cold. But Phil Neville is sanguine.
It would take more than an afternoon of interviews in a mammoth glass-roof arena more fitting a home to an ice rink than a full-sized artificial soccer pitch on a day such as this for the head coach of England’s women soccer team to lose his equanimity.
“Ask me anything,” says the former Manchester United and Everton midfielder, flashing a smile as he takes a seat in front of CNN’s cameras.