For his part, the Telegraph also regretted the FA’s choice for Tuchel. Who, at the same time, became the third foreigner to coach the Three Lions after Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello. “To preserve the sanctity of international football”all England coach “should be English”thinks the conservative daily, for whom “Germany would never think of hiring an English coach”.
It is still necessary, obviously, for coaches with sufficiently broad shoulders to emerge on the other side of the Channel. Eddie Howe? Graham Potter? They are promising, but still far from being able to boast of having a track record and (international) experience as rich as the former coach of Paris SG, Dortmund, Chelsea or even Bayern. The issue of coaching training in the Kingdom of Charles is another, which would undoubtedly require very close attention from the FA.
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2.5% chance, according to History
But perhaps those most skeptical of the German’s induction simply took a look at the statistics since 1930, the date of the first World Cup. The history of football is that only one European country has managed to win a major tournament with a… foreign coach at its head! It is also the most surprising victory of this millennium: Greece with the now legendary Otto Rehhagel, in 2004. The Portuguese remember it better than anyone.
During the 22 editions of the World Cup, from Alberto Suppici with Uruguay in 1930 to Lionel Scaloni with Argentina in 2022, all the winning countries were coached by coaches from the country in question. And about the 17 European Championships? From Gavriil Kachalin with the USSR in 1960 to Luis de la Fuente with Spain this year, Greece therefore serves as the one and only exception which confirms the rule. Whether this reality is the result of a coincidence or not, we must therefore remember that out of the 39 major tournaments contested by European nations, on barely one occasion (2.5% of the time), a coach managed to lift arms with a country other than his own. From a statistical point of view, hiring a foreign coach greatly limits any European country’s chances of winning a Euro or a World Cup (and even a Nations League).
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At the tournament in Germany this summer, the four coaches in the semi-finals – Luis de la Fuente, Southgate, Didier Deschamps and Ronald Koeman – were all of the nationality of the country they were guiding. Proof once again that, much more than clubs, national teams remain identity teams.
Currently, among UEFA’s 55 member countries, 30 employ coaches from their borders and 23 employ foreign coaches (the positions of Armenia and the Faroe Islands are vacant). Belgium is obviously part of the second category. The future of Domenico Tedesco being the subject of all the debates today, the question of the nationality of the coach is once again a subject which comes back on the tables here too. The Italian-German is the twelfth foreign coach of the Devils, but only the third in the last sixty years, after Dick Advocaat and Roberto Martinez. While Guy Thijs reached a World Cup semi-final and a Euro final, the Spaniard remains the Belgian Union’s most successful foreign bet with this historic third place at the 2018 World Cup. .
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