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English coaches 'capable' of managing national team, says Southampton boss
Southampton boss Russell Martin said Thursday that "loads of English coaches are capable" of managing England after Thomas Tuchel was named as the national team's new manager.
The German, a former Chelsea and Bayern Munich boss, was unveiled on Wednesday and will start his new job on January 1.
The 51-year-old succeeds Gareth Southgate as permanent coach and becomes the third foreign England manager after Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello.
Football Association chief executive Mark Bullingham said English coaches were interviewed, but England were "not in that place" to have several homegrown contenders for the national team job.
Former Manchester United captain and England defender Gary Neville admitted on Sky Sports that Tuchel was the "best available manager in the world".
But he added: "We are damaging ourselves accepting Tuchel is better than any of the other English coaches. We are in a rut when it comes to English coaching."
Southampton boss Martin, whose team were promoted to the Premier League in May, described Tuchel as a "brilliant" manager but said there were few opportunities for homegrown coaches.
"There are loads of English coaches really capable of doing the job as well," said former Scotland international Martin ahead of his team's Premier League match against Leicester on Saturday.
"English managers -- really difficult to get the opportunity to manage in the Premier League unless you take a team there a lot of the time.
"Maybe English managers are not given enough credit or maybe they're deemed not good enough by the most important people.
"I hope at some point it will be really obvious that there are lots of really good English managers around that are capable of doing it."
Leicester boss Steve Cooper said he believed in the British coaching pathway.
"Hopefully over the course of time British coaching will continue to improve and we will be right up there with the world's best," said the Welshman, who led England to victory at the Under-17 World Cup in 2017.
"In the meantime any opportunity we are given we have to take them and do a good job. Until we do that on a regular basis maybe we shouldn't say so much."
Everton manager Sean Dyche said many people would have liked an English coach but believes Tuchel's appointment is "a reality of the modern game".
"Each pathway doesn't always lead to where you want it to. In theory, the idea was to get English coaches, fast-track certain members if needs be, get them through the system, create that platform for coaches going into the system, and therefore managing the country.
"But it's changed so much, football management, and the view of it. Now they've obviously looked at it differently."
He added: "I don't think he'll be under any illusions as manager. Forget about nationalities, he will know he's been put in there to try and win."
B.Shevchenko--BTB