4. Guidance For Younger Players
Stuart Pearce's squad will be almost entirely made up of players who have little previous International football experience and almost none who have been to a major tournament. David Beckham would have brought a huge amount of experience and presence to both the dressing room and the training ground for these players. Young men would have looked up to him and been able to learn so much from the 37-year-old. This kind of experience is simply priceless. I have no doubt many of the players in Pearce's final squad will be looking for places on the plane to Rio in two years time and the experience of playing alongside a man of Beckham's stature would have been priceless.