As two English coaches meet in France – should more go abroad?
Both Still and Rosennier are booming, but in fact, few British coaches operating in the top five European leagues have shown that there is a problem.
By comparison, there are 16 Italian coaches in Serie A, 14 Spanish coaches in La Liga, 10 German coaches in Bundesliga, and 9 French coaches in Ligue 1.
“(This is) the opportunity,” still said. “I mean: do we have enough coaches to browse the badges?
“Does the outside world see British coaching as a real option? There are many top Spanish coaches, top Portuguese coaches, top Dutch, German coaches, but can we push this barrier too?”
Rosenior added: “I look at German models. They have some great young German coaches. We have a coach in the national team and that’s great.
“What you see – over the past decade – is that they have young coaches who have gotten opportunities in the Bundesliga.
“They were exposed to this level earlier, so maybe it was something we could see. But for me it had nothing to do with the manager’s nationality, it was about the quality they brought.”
Are there only 20 stores that manage attractions in the Premier League that are somewhat closed?
“Sometimes,” still said. “But it’s hard to grasp or understand properly what reality is.
“I don’t know what those Premier League clubs are thinking. I don’t know how they work. I don’t know what their next recruitment process will be.
“It’s the best league in the world, there’s a reason, so you have to be one of the best leagues in the world, and that’s what I think we all desire to do.”
Rosenior thinks it is a little different.
“I think it depends on what your ultimate goal is,” he said. “My ultimate goal is not to enter the Premier League.
“I don’t think football is linear, you say, ‘Yes, I work in the championship game, I’m going to the Premier League’.
“My ultimate goal is to be the best coach I can be, and it depends on the decision makers of every football club to choose the ones they think are the right coaches to be their club.”
Few British players have taken the risk overseas once, but the numbers are growing in the season. Should British coaches seek something similar?
“I think it was a great experience,” still said, “I think learning different cultures, different ways of playing games, different opposition, different players. I would definitely encourage it because you’re open to yourself. More.”
Rosenior added: “This is not what I say to anyone who should be a career. It has nothing to do with nationality. It’s just being the best person you can be and working as hard as you can every day.”
Rosenior and still work so hard that their current career and the decisions they made have brought them into a collision course, at least on Sunday, at least at Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens Temporarily reaching orgasm.
