Platini: England's next Head Coach should be English
Michel Platini, the president of Uefa, has offered his tuppence in the debate about who should be man to replace the erstwhile England Head Coach Steve McClaren - the Frenchman believes that an Englishman is needed to take the country forward. The 52-year-old believes that only an Englishman will preserve the identity of the English game.
McClaren was relieved of his responsibilities by the Football Association last Thursday - the morning after his side failed to qualify for Euro 2008 having lost 3-2 to Group E leaders Croatia at Wembley - and the former double European Footballer of the Year believes that the foreign names being banded about should be disgarded.
Jose Mourinho, Phil Scolari, Guus Hiddink, Fabio Capello, Louis van Gaal, Jurgen Klinsmann and Northern Ireland's Martin O'Neill have all been linked with the England coaching vacancy.
But Platini hopes that the FA will be strong and appoint a man from within England. He said: "England is such a strong country that they have to take an Englishman.
"If I am looking for the manager of England, I would try to find a good English guy who everybody trusts to make a good team."
"When you lose with the national team, that is the soul of your football. It is my philosophy to protect the identity of the clubs and the country."
The Uefa president also had a pop at the amount of foreigners in the Premier League, suggesting that it had reached saturation point.
He added: "I like your football, I like the games, I like the fans and the passion - but I don't like the fact that it is too open in allowing in foreign players.
"In Arsenal now you don't have an English coach, English players, maybe not an English president soon.
"So why are they playing in England? Because of the fans, because of big business, because of the TV, because the clubs like that."
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