Graham Potter：渡假時見了老闆，我感覺更有信心了

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Owners’ ‘fantastic support’ leaves Potter full of confidence

26 DEC 2022

During the winter break, Graham Potter combined a family holiday to California with a chance to sit down with the club’s owners, leaving him even more confident for Chelsea's future now than when he first arrived at Stamford Bridge in September.

冬歇期波特與家人一起去加州度假，他有機會與俱樂部的老闆坐下來談談，現在他對卻爾西的未來比九月份剛到斯坦福橋時更有信心。

Speaking ahead of Chelsea’s first competitive fixture for more than six weeks, due to the mid-season break for this year’s World Cup, Graham Potter shared details of how he managed to find time to enjoy some winter sun and relax with his family, between the squad’s warm-weather training camp and planning for the resumption of the Premier League with our home game against Bournemouth on 27 December.

在卻爾西迎來六週多以來的第一場比賽之前，由於今年世界盃的賽季中期休息，波特談到了他是如何在中東溫暖的訓練營和12月27日主場對陣伯恩茅斯的英超恢復期間，抽出時間享受冬日的陽光，與家人放鬆的。

‘We had a nice week away in Abu Dhabi and I had some time with my family,’ said our head coach. ‘We went to California, that was nice. I went from LA up to San Francisco with my wife, the first time without the kids, so that was pleasant! That’s why I seem so relaxed!’

“我們在阿布達比度過了愉快的一週，我和家人一起度過了一段時光。” 我們的主教練說， “我們去了加州，那裡很好。我和妻子一起從洛杉磯去了舊金山，這是我們第一次沒有帶孩子，所以很愉快！這就是為什麼我看起來很放鬆！”

However, in the middle of his first season at Chelsea, even during that holiday football never seemed to be far from Potter’s mind and he took the opportunity to meet the club’s co-controlling owner Behdad Eghbali while he was visiting America.

但在卻爾西的第一個賽季中期，即使是在假期，足球似乎也從未遠離波特的腦海，他抓住機會在美國訪問時會見了俱樂部的聯合控股所有人老闆貝達德．埃格巴里。

‘When I was over in California I met up with Behdad, which was good. I had a good chat with him, I get fantastic support,’ he explained. ‘I’m really looking forward to the weeks and the months and the years ahead.

“當我在加州的時候，我遇到了貝達德，這很好。我和他聊得很愉快，我得到了非常棒的支持，” 他解釋， “我真的很期待未來的幾週、幾個月、幾年。”

‘We understand where we are at, at the moment. We understand the challenges that we have, but that’s where we are in the journey at the moment.

“我們知道我們目前的處境，明白我們所面臨的挑戰，但這就是我們目前所處的階段。”

‘I’m even more confident now, even more aware of the support I have now, than I was three months ago when I was talking to them. That tells you something and I think it’s a credit to them, their support, how they’ve communicated with me. It’s been fantastic.

“比起三個月前和他們談話時，我現在更有信心了，也更意識到我得到的支持了。這說明了一些事情，我認為這是他們的功勞，他們的支持，他們如何與我溝通，真是太棒了。”

‘We know the pressure, the demands of this football club, of course, but we also know there are enough people who can put it into perspective and enough people who can see the situation, see where we’re at, to be able to say “this is where we are, how can we improve, how can we move forward?”.’

“當然，我們知道壓力，知道這家足球俱樂部的要求，但我們也知道有足夠多的人能夠正確看待這件事，有足夠多的人能夠看到當前的情況，看到我們的處境，能夠說 '這就是我們的處境，我們該如何改進，我們該如何前進？' ”

Potter also admitted that the back-to-back narrow defeats to Arsenal and Newcastle United in the Premier League immediately before this year’s winter break have weighed on his mind since that last game at St James’ Park on 12 November, but his attention soon turned to the matches ahead and plans for the rest of the season.

波特也承認，自11月12日在聖詹姆士公園球場的最後一場比賽以來，今年冬歇期之前連續小輸給阿森納和紐卡索聯讓他很苦惱，但他的注意力很快就轉向了接下來和本賽季剩下的比賽中。

‘I would rather have gone on holiday, up and down California, with a couple of wins, because I would probably have been better company for my poor wife! Thankfully she’s been with me long enough to know that’s how it is.

“我寧願去度假，帶著幾次勝利，在加州到處跑，因為我可能會成為我可憐的太太更好的伴侶！不過謝天謝地，她和我在一起的時間夠久，知道這是怎麼回事。”

‘It wasn’t to be, so you have to reflect. You have to use that pain, the frustration, the disappointment of the last few weeks to see how we can move forward. Then it’s about how you can start the process of integrating all the players back and taking the learning of that time and saying “we need to show some direction here to go forward”.

“這是不可能的，我們必須反思，必須利用過去幾週的痛苦、挫折和失望來看看我們如何前進，然後再考慮如何開始整合所有球員，吸取那段時間的教訓，並說 '我們需要展示一些前進的方向'。”

‘We had a really good positive two or three weeks with the players. It feels like there’s a good spirit, a real good connection around the building. So everything’s gone well in that regard, but clearly the proof is in the pudding, we understand we have to perform well and we have to try to win the game.’

“我們和球員們在一起的兩到三週非常愉快，感覺有一種良好的精神，有一種真正良好的聯繫，所以各方面都很順利，但結果才是一切，我們知道自己必須表現良好，我們必須努力贏得比賽。”

訪問內容還有一段... 

Graham Potter: “I would rather have gone on holiday with a couple of wins behind me, I probably would have been better company for my poor wife. I’m staring into the Pacific Ocean, and she’s thinking about what a wonderful time we’re having, and I’m thinking about Chelsea FC."

— Simon Phillips (@siphillipssport) December 26, 2022

"當我看著太平洋時，我老婆正想著這是多美好的時光啊，可我心中想的卻是卻爾西。"

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