Steve McClaren. Player and trainer

Steve McClaren - coach and former football player. He worked in several well-known teams of the Premier League and coached the English national team.

Club career

McLaren started playing football professionally in 1979. The first Englishman's team was Hull City, for which he spent more than 178 fights and scored 16 goals. After this, Steve replaced the club - the midfielder became a player "Derby County". In 1987, the team managed to become the winner of the Second Division of the Football League. For "Baranov" he played 25 matches in three seasons, after which he was sent to "Lincoln". In this team in 1988, held only 8 fights.

Season 1988/89 Steve McClaren held in the "Bristol", where he took part in 61 meetings. After the season, Steve again changed the team. The new haven for the Englishman was Oxford United. This club was the last for the player.

Club Trainer

In 1995, Steve McClaren's coaching career began. For four years he worked as an assistant in Derby County. After that, he was invited to Manchester United, where he worked as an assistant to head coach Sera Alex Ferguson until 2001.

In 2001, Steve McClaren made his debut as head coach. Before the start of the 2001/02 season, he was appointed the head coach of Middlesbrough. That was one of the best stages in the career of an English coach. In 2004 the team became the owner of the Football League Cup. This is the only trophy won by McLaren for his time working on Foggy Albion. In addition, his team played in the 2006 UEFA Cup final.

In 2008, he coached the Netherlands Twente, who won the national championship in the 2009/10 season. Two years later, McLaren was appointed head coach of Wolfsburg. After a season, Steve moved to Nottingham Forrest. In 2012, he again changed his place of work, returning to Twente. In the Netherlands, McLaren was only a season, and in 2013 the coach returned to England, heading "Derby County". He was the head coach of the club for two years, then moved to Newcastle, from which he was fired in the spring of 2016, and again returned to Derby in the summer.

England squad

Working in the "MU" contributed to the fact that in 2000 Steve McClaren became one of the assistants in the England national team. In the headquarters of the national team Steve worked for two years. In 2004, he was again invited to the headquarters of the national team, and again Steve was an assistant for two years.

In 2006, he became the head coach of the national team and began to prepare the team for the match selection at the European Championship 2008. The cases did not work out from the first fights. For the first three games in the asset "Three Lions" was only 2 points. After that, the British won 5 games with a total score of 15-0. The decisive was the meeting with the Croatian national team, which McClaren's wards lost, losing the chance to enter the European Championships. After that, Steve McClaren was fired.