Tuesday didnt rule out the possibility of

Tuesday didnt rule out the possibility of

26.12.2018 14:24

NICE, France -- Wanted: Someone to turn around the fortunes of soccers most consistently underperforming international team.England was beginning its search for a new coach Tuesday after Roy Hodgsons departure following the teams latest embarrassing exit from a major tournament, this time at the hands of tiny Iceland at the European Championship.And there arent too many obvious candidates for a role often labeled The Impossible Job.Gareth Southgate, the coach of Englands under-21 team, is an early if underwhelming favorite to succeed Hodgson. Theres talk of Sam Allardyce, Alan Pardew and Eddie Howe -- all current Premier League managers and all from different parts of the age spectrum.But the list of genuine contenders is short, considering that being the manager of England is usually the highest-paid coaching role in the international game. The English Football Association on Tuesday didnt rule out the possibility of a non-English replacement for Hodgson and insisted that root-and-branch reform isnt necessary.Well be looking for the best person for the job, said the FAs CEO, Martin Glenn. We need a new manager. We dont need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are a lot of good things that have been done.Trying to predict what course the FA will take is not easy. Since 1999, when Kevin Keegan was hired and then fired 18 months later, the FA has swayed from English to foreign coaches -- Sven-Goran Eriksson, Steve McClaren, Fabio Capello, and then Hodgson.Each of those coaches brought a different approach, experience and identity to the job -- a sign of the lack of long-term planning the FA is often accused of, and which it has tried to address by building the sprawling National Football Centre in central England in 2012. It is supposed to be the base from where Englands most talented young coaches are brought through, but that will take time.Hodgsons legacy with the national team will be his two major failures at international tournaments -- the 2014 World Cup and now Euro 2016 -- but also how he brought many young players into the squad. The average age of Englands squad was the second youngest at Euro 2016.So if England wanted to have a seamless transition into the post-Hodgson era, Southgate might be the best bet.The man who famously missed a crucial penalty in Englands shootout loss to Germany in the Euro 1996 semifinals has coached one club -- Middlesbrough -- and was fired after three years, following its relegation from the Premier League.Widely seen as an FA man and one of English soccers nice guys, Southgate has repaired his coaching reputation during his three years with Englands under-21 side and led the team to a first title in 22 years at the Toulon tournament this year. He will know many of Englands current squad but the general feeling is that he lacks the knowledge and experience for such a prestigious and pressurized position as England coach.The larger-than-life Allardyce, currently the manager of Sunderland, has always wanted the England job. The 61-year-old coach has over-performed in fire-fighting roles with a number of average Premier League teams (Blackburn, Bolton, Sunderland) and deserves more praise for his tactical insight than hes often given. He is also regarded as a pioneer of analytics and stats-based thinking in English football.Big Sam, as he is known, looks to have a better chance than Pardew and Howe, who are the managers of Crystal Palace and Bournemouth, respectively, simply due to his coaching experience.And if experience is what the FA hierarchy after, they could do worse than try to entice Arsene Wenger.Criticism of the Frenchman is growing among Arsenals fan base after 20 years at the London club, and Wenger could be tempted by a first international job, perhaps the final one of his career.The FA will look to have its new man in place well in advance of Englands next match, a World Cup qualifier away to Slovakia on Sept. 4.---AP Sports Writer John Leicester contributed from Chantilly, France. Nike Basketball Shoes Cheap . The Americans, skipped by John Shuster, seized the advantage in the eighth end by scoring five points for a 7-3 lead. 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