Steve Mclaren is a coach and former footballer. He worked in several well-known submarine teams and coached the English national team.
Club career
McLaren started playing football professionally in 1979. The first team of the Englishman was Hull City, for which he spent more than 178 fights and scored 16 goals. After that, Steve changed the club - the midfielder became a player in Derby County. In 1987, the team managed to become the winner of the Second Division of the Football League. For “Baran” he played 25 matches in three seasons, after which he was sent on loan to “Lincoln”. In this team in 1988, he had only 8 fights.
Steve McLaren spent the 1988/89 season with Bristol, where he took part in 61 meetings. After the season, Steve again changed the team. The new home for the Englishman was Oxford United. This club was the last for the player.
Club coach
In 1995, the coaching career of Steve McLaren began. For four years, he worked as an assistant at 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 McLaren debuted as head coach. Before the start of the 2001/02 season, he was appointed head coach of Middlesbrough. That was one of the best stages in the career of an English coach. In 2004, the team won the Football League Cup. This is the only trophy won by McLaren for all his time on the Foggy Albion. In addition, his team played in the UEFA Cup final in 2006.
In 2008, he coached the Dutch Twente, with whom he 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 job, returning to Twente. In the Netherlands, McLaren spent only a season, and in 2013 the coach returned to England, leading the Derby County. He was the club’s head coach for two years, then moved to Newcastle, from which he was fired in the spring of 2016, and returned to Derby in the summer of that.
England team
Work at Manchester United contributed to Steve McLaren becoming one of the assistants in the England national team in 2000. Steve worked at the headquarters of the team 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 selection matches at the 2008 European Championships. Things have not worked out since the first fights. For the first three matches in the asset of “Three Lions” there were only 2 points. After that, the English won 5 matches with a total score of 15-0. The decisive was the meeting with the Croatian national team, which McLaren’s wards lost, losing their chances of reaching the European Championship. After that, Steve McLaren was fired.