Should national team coaches be from that nation?

The Benz not singing the French anthem thread got me thinking. There was a lot of debate around the 2006 World Cup regarding whether FIFA should restrict national team coaches, changing the rules so only citizens of that country could coach the team. Hardly materialized of course, for a number of reasons.

I know the US would be in shambles without Klinsmann.

Has there ever been an example of a team winning an international trophy with a foreign coach? Not suggesting anything just genuinely asking.

I kind of think, yeah they should be from the nation. It kind of makes sense.

But its not a real big thing and its probably a good thing it isnt like this. There would of been many great coaches out of a job not based on merit, but just being unlucky.

And Zeal, only 1 I know of. Otto Rehhagel for Greece.

I kind of feel like they have to. They probably have a bigger influence on the team than any single player.

Otto

Forgot about Rehhagel

I think for the top footballing countries it isn't really necessary since they tend to produce good coaches anyway. Implementing a rule saying only native coaches can be in that position would hurt "smaller" countries still finding their feet I would think.

I personally prefer native coaches because they tend to have a better understanding of how to communicate with the players. If you have that kind of barrier then the coach is unlikely to do well.

I agree, it only hurts smaller teams, gives them less of a chance.

Greece are not winning that without Otto, I think we can all agree on that. His tactics were top quality, well defensively.

I think the biggest football nations don't hire foreign coaches anyway. Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, France. Did they ever have a foreign coach in their history?

Zealous wrote:Forgot about Rehhagel

I think for the top footballing countries it isn't really necessary since they tend to produce good coaches anyway. Implementing a rule saying only native coaches can be in that position would hurt "smaller" countries still finding their feet I would think.

I personally prefer native coaches because they tend to have a better understanding of how to communicate with the players. If you have that kind of barrier then the coach is unlikely to do well.

You're 100% right, well, I would love for us to always have a native coach, but I can understand that bringin in a coach from the big guns can help countries with some talented players, but lacking in infrastructure, like the African and Asian FAs often have that problem.

It kinda makes more sense if the NT has a coach who's the same nationality. However there's nothing wrong with a NT having a coach who isn't the same nationality.

Well Ștefan Kovocs, former Ajax (Romanian) once coached France.

Dont know about anyone else.

The Franchise wrote:Well Ștefan Kovocs, former Ajax (Romanian) once coached France.

Dont know about anyone else.

He didn't win anything though.

If you're just looking for any foreign coaches, there's tons.

I was answering the question of foreign coaches coaching the teams named by futbol.

Otto

Roy Hodgson is the best manager that has coached finland, so that is going to be kind of bad for us

futbol wrote:I think the biggest football nations don't hire foreign coaches anyway. Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, France. Did they ever have a foreign coach in their history?

I like how you left out England there

England need to be hiring foreign coaches in order to change the style of play imo. Foreign coaches who can play good football.

Cant change style of play without players. England need players first.

Yohan Modric wrote:England need to be hiring foreign coaches in order to change the style of play imo. Foreign coaches who can play good football.

Well, they tried with Sven-Göran Eriksson and Fabio Capello....

Sven's probably not renown for good football neither is Capello imo.

Not true.

Lazio played good stuff.

We're playing decent stuff under Hodgson now, anyway.

To an extent, I do think coaches should be from the nation of the team he's coaching, if only so the whole set-up becomes a true representation of that nation.

However, some of the smaller nations can become more competitive with a foreign coach. They might not be able to produce decent enough coach themselves, but their players could learn a lot from someone coming in from the outside.

Having a manager from your own nation should always be the goal, but in the interest of competition, teams should be allowed to have foreign coaches.

I agree with above poster. To be honest I think that's the real beauty in it. The nation competing with their collective footballing mindset. Underdeveloped footballing nations definitely deserve foreign coaches.

I'm still to be convinced Hodgson is English tbh.

His nose is gigantic for one and he looks the Penquin from Batman.

And just like the Penquin he spent large parts of his life away from his supposed home country