Brooking: FA want English manager after Capello
Reuters - Saturday 17 July 2010, 10:01
LONDON - The Football Association want
England's next manager after Fabio Capello to be English,
director of football Trevor Brooking was quoted as saying on
Saturday.
Two of the last three England managers have been foreign,
with Sweden's Sven-Goran Eriksson taking the side to the 2006
World Cup finals before handing over to the ill-fated Steve
McClaren.
Italian Capello replaced him as manager in 2008 and had his
contract extended by two years to 2012 before England's poor
performance at the World Cup in South Africa.
"I think longer term, after Fabio, we'd like to go English,"
newspapers quoted former England midfielder Brooking as saying.
"We want to create a spell where we appoint English coaches,
and Fabio can help us enormously to bridge that gap and help
that transition.
"We've got a short-term priority of the qualifying games
(for Euro 2012) but over the next couple of years the National
Football Centre will hopefully be built, and that's going to be
the hub site for the future development of English coaches."
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