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Thomas Tuchel and the English Game
Newly appointed England head coach Thomas Tuchel during a press conference at Wembley Stadium, London, October 16, 2024

THE appointment of Thomas Tuchel as manager of the England men’s team has caused a stir.

It has been criticised as an abandonment of English football identity. A betrayal of St George and the English DNA forged at his football Park in Staffordshire.

Such criticism forgets how football developed as a global game in the first place, and national team football has always been open to positive international influences and the sharing of ideas beyond borders.

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