Former Brighton director Chris Hughton states English soccer has missed out on a”generation” of black, Asian and minority ethnic managers and coaches, partially caused by a lack of role models.
Before this year the Norwich, Birmingham and Newcastle manager was sacked as manager of Brighton.
He had been commended by League Managers Association chief executive Richard Bevan for being a”role model for young coaches and managers at the sport.”
The prior left-back, who played in 1977-1993 with Tottenham, West Ham and Brentford, insists not enough action has been taken to try and boost the quantities of managers and trainers.
“I came via a age where the understanding of black individuals within soccer was good centre forward, good wingers, fast, strong, but not really captain or management material,” he told CNN.
“The disappointing fact is that we haven’t made this progress, we lost a creation of very influential black players that might have made very great managers.”
At the start of this season, Football League clubs now have to interview at least one or cultural minority candidate for the position of a manager.
Presently, there are four BAME managers Nuno Espirito Santo in Wolves,” Sabri Lamouchi in Nottingham Forest, Darren Moore at Doncaster and Keith Curle in Northampton.
Sol Campbell became the first casualty of 2019/20 after guiding them to League Two security term later that he was dismissed as director of Macclesfield.
“I’ve spoken to numerous black and white ethnic players across the years that wanted to manage,” Hughton additional.
“They have looked for this particular pathway, and they could not observe those role models that in effect could show them a pathway.”
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