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The Football Association is no stranger to controversy; in fact the two are regularly seen next to one another in the national press. When the ‘board of decision makers’ aren’t busy avoiding making a decision regarding the next England manager, they’re devising new weird, wonderful and often ineffective proposals to try and improve the beautiful game. The ‘new’ technical director role appears to be the FA’s attempt at rejuvenating their image in the world of football but I bet the majority of you have absolutely no idea what the job actually entails, which is probably why the usually clueless Gareth Southgate is favourite to land the job.
In a nutshell the FA’s technical director will be responsible for helping raise the standards of both the elite and grassroots game in England. The successful candidate will work alongside Sir Trevor Brooking and be based at the new football base at St George’s Park, helping to create a centre of excellence for coaches. The new recruit will also lead the FA’s input to support the implementation of the Elite Player Performance Plan, hopefully dropping as many spanners into the works as humanly possible.
However, there is certainly a pressing need for an appointment with England remaining of the few nations in Europe without someone in a similar role. The post has been vacant since Howard Wilkinson’s departure in 2002, although Les Reed served as acting technical director up until 2004. Wilkinson was keen to stress the importance for a swift appointment claiming, “Any federation needs someone who is responsible for the strategic direction in terms of technical matters and the FA is no different.”
Alex Horne, the FA’s general secretary, added: “The role of technical director will be crucial as we continue to strive towards improving the technical ability and knowledge of our players and coaches both now and in the future.”
Putting all of this into consideration, it begs the question why Gareth Southgate has found himself as the bookies favourite?
According to recent media reports Southgate, the FA’s current head of elite development, has already been impressing behind the scenes. Just last week he jetted off to Brazil to compile possible training base camps for the 2014 World Cup finals. Apparently he’s seen as the countries very own ‘Michel Platini’, alleged one FA source, which is a fair comparison when you consider the growing number of people who seem to dislike the pair.
Southgate strikes me as a rather uninspired choice, especially for a role that has a real potential to shape a more promising future for football. Despite harbouring a certain degree of intellect, he usually spends most of his public appearances tripping over his words alongside Roy Keane and Adrian Chiles on ITV. He emits a particularly bland presence and despite his achievements on the pitch, I can’t see him being named as an popular idol amongst many of our future generation of stars.
Perhaps I’m being too harsh on Southgate, maybe you need his own brand of personality to successfully communicate with other delegates in the world of football. I’m sure there’s a number of obstacles and office politics to overcome, which would perhaps deter or suppress a more passionate candidate. The fact that he also holds a FIFA Pro Licence should not be overlooked.
The biggest reservation I have with the appointment of Southgate is his relative inexperience with youth development, let’s not forget he managed to lead a particularly promising young ‘Boro side to relegation in 2009. Perhaps the role would be better suited to the likes of West Ham’s Director of Youth Development Tony Carr or Manchester City’s Youth Academy Director Jim Cassell, who both boast a wealth of experience in this field. Although I imagine their respective clubs would put up a particularly strong fight in order to retain their services.
My ideal candidate for the role would be Steve Coppell, putting my affiliation with Palace aside for a second, he has a reputation for rearing young starlets and his understanding of the game is unrivalled.
But who would you appoint given the opportunity? Is there a standout figure with the knowledge and experience to help England implement plans for future success?
Join me on Twitter @theunusedsub where I’m still struggling to believe that this ‘man’ could essentially become our football equivalent of prime minister.
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