Thomas Tuchel, England’s new coach

Thomas Tuchel (52) is the next England coach in the absence of an official announcement. The British newspaper The Times it was announced on Tuesday that the German coach will be in charge of the English team to be replaced Lee Carlsleyand, temporary coach after his farewell Gareth Southgate on the pros bench at the end of the pass European Cup.

Until just a few days ago, the top favorite in the pool to become the new coach of England is Pep Guardiolathat the contract with City of Manchester will expire next June 30. However, in the last few hours negotiations have begun between the FA and Thomas Tuchel and the treaty was accepted in both England and Germany. The agreement will be made official this week, they indicated The Times and Sky Germany.

Thomas Tuchel In the next few hours he will become the third foreign coach in the history of the England team after the Swede Sven-Göran Eriksson (2001-2006) and from Italian Fabio Capello (2007-2012).

Before him is the German’s mission to lead one of the best generations of footballers English football has produced in recent decades to lift a major national team tournament, a goal that has eluded England since they lifted the 1966 World Cup 58 years ago.

The Bavarian coach has been without a team since his relationship with Bayern Munich ended at the end of last season. Tuchel also passed through the banks of Borussia Dortmund (2015-2017), PSG (2018-2020) and Chelsea (2020-2023). With the club Stamford Bridge achieved his greatest success by lifting the Champions League in Porto, losing to City of Manchester of Guardiola (0-1). Using the PSGa year before, reached the final in Lisbon, losing against Bayern Munich (1-0).

In the record of Tuchel There are also, among other titles, a German Cup including Dortmundtwo flirt 1 to PSG, one more Bundesliga including Bavaria and one Championsa Super Cup Europe and a Club World Cupthese last three were harvested with the Chelsea.