Kieran McKenna, the manager of Town, says it makes sense that the FA chose Thomas Tuchel to be the new head coach of England.
McKenna says he can understand why Tuchel, a former manager of Chelsea and Bayern Munich, was hired to replace Gareth Southgate, who quit in the summer. The previous manager, Lee Carsley, was in charge for a short time.
She said, “I think it’s an understandable appointment.” “You can see what stage England is in.”
“Gareth did such a great job, and they were so close to winning major tournaments, that it’s clear that the people in charge have made a choice that they think gives them the best chance of winning the next major tournament, the World Cup.”
Some people think that an Englishman should have been hired instead of a German, and there have been questions raised about how the FA trains coaches at their St. George’s Park base.
Born in London and raised in Northern Ireland McKenna, who got his teaching badges through the FA, says that people have the wrong idea about what the National Football Centre does.
It’s two different problems, he said. “For me, St. George’s Park is very, very good for so many things, for the development of the game development of grassroots football.”
“But for coaches working at higher levels of the game, I’ve only spent about two weeks there since it ended in 2012, and I’m one of the English coaches working at a higher level.”
“I think your development as a professional coach and manager doesn’t come from coaching courses, to be honest. I don’t think the FA or St George’s Park can be held responsible for that.
“I think your development is in your day-to-day job, your development is within the clubs. I think more of the young coaches, a lot of their development probably comes through the academy systems and I think that’s where I know the large majority of my learning has taken place in the professional clubs I’ve been working at, not through the coaching courses that you attend as you’re developing as a coach.
“I think probably more pertinent is maybe the access to people from the amateur game, from the grassroots game, from the semi-professional game to coaching courses in terms of affordability, in terms of availability. I know lots of people who have had struggles with that and I think that’s more of a problem.
“But for me, that’s more about developing our football culture in the country. Developing the base level of our coaching and our understanding of all the different parts of football is not necessarily what’s going to translate to the next England manager.
“That’s just my opinion. I think there’s a misconception there about the duty for St George’s Park. It’s a great facility, with some good people there and if anything, I’m sure one of the biggest challenges that the FA want to – and I’m sure working on – is getting more and more people who can pass through the badges, which will give them foot to then develop their careers. And that growth is very often going to be done in the clubs.”
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